Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Hedge Fund Flows Fall by $824 Million in 4Q 2005
Returns average 2.13 percent for the quarter and 9.35 percent for the year; Emerging Markets up 20.9 percent for 2005; Event-Driven and Equity Hedge see strong flows HedgeCo.Net – CHICAGO – January 25, 2006 – Hedge funds experienced the first […]
Swiss Cap aims for tenfold expansion in Asia
Finance Asia – Swiss Capital Alternative Investments (SCAI), the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Swiss Capital Group, has disclosed ambitions to increase the size of its Asian Strategies Fund from $20million to $200 million. SCAI opened its Hong Kong office in […]
Some hedge funds may pose stability risk
Reuters.uk – Hedge fund investments in less liquid assets such as private equity or property could be a potential problem for financial market stability, the Financial Services Authority said onWednesday. Overall, however, the chances that hedge funds with their significant […]
Banks relax Europe hedge fund credit rules
Reuters Italia – Fierce competition to attract European hedge fund fixed income securities business has led to looser credit quality controls by banks, a survey by U.S-based consulting firm GreenwichAssociates showed. Investment bank prime brokerage divisions offer hedge funds settlement, […]
Talking Hedge Fund Registration With Nir Yarden
TheStreet.com – With a Feb. 1 deadline looming, hedge funds are getting ready to register as advisers under a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule. Most funds are complaining about the new burden of legal and operational obligations, but unless […]
Buying a Dollar of Assets for 60 Cents
Business Week Online – To manage a global mutual fund with an opportunistic bent, it can’t hurt to have an international upbringing and experience at a hedge fund. That’s the case with Anne Gudefin, lead portfolio manager of the $8.3 […]
Hedge Funds Expect More Defaults
MSNBC – Hedge funds and other investors in North American distressed debt are hoping to benefit from a rise in corporate default rates but think the increase in 2007 will be more dramatic than in 2006, according to a new […]
Activist investors force change on corporations
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Two months ago, a little-known investor demanded that the company that publishes The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer be put up for sale. Just 14 days later,after several other investors made the same demand, the […]
Mutual Funds Build your own hedge fund
MSN Money – Last week’s turbulence in Japanese stocks — the Tokyo exchange closed briefly because of too many sell orders — reminds investors that hedging risk can providea better night’s sleep. Hedge funds, which are designed to produce investment […]
Hedge funds turn ‘prime’ brokerage into misnomer
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – In the prime-brokerage business, being the prime choice of hedge funds is becoming more of a challenge. As hedge funds grow in size, complexity and clout, many investment managers are finding that a single prime broker […]
Finance 80% of Trade Deficit
Safe Haven – Net foreign capital flows into the US slipped 1.4% to $89.1 bln billion in November from a revised $104.2 billion in October (initial was $106.8 bln). Although the $107 billioncomfortably exceeded the $64 billion record trade deficit […]
Oil prices surge back above $68 a barrel
MSNBC – Oil prices zoomed to a four-and-a-half month high above $68 a barrel Friday, rallying on supply fears tied to Iran’s tense diplomatic standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions. Labor unrest in oil-rich Nigeria and new threats […]