Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

( www.thestreet.com ) – One interesting development in hedge funds is the appeal of hedge fund vehicles pegged to an index. Called investable hedge fund indices, these vehicles resemble a fund of funds, but instead just track a hedge fund […]

( www.menafn.com ) – Gulf Money by Matein Khalid It was my privilege to witness the global proliferation of hedge funds since the early 1990’s from vantage points in New York, Chicago, London, Geneva, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. New instruments, […]

( www.sundayherald.com ) – Paul Myners, the Marks & Spencer chairman who led a Treasury review of institutional investment, has warned that companies’traditional means of fighting off takeovers are redundant because of the pressures of hedge-fund investors in the UK […]

( www.thestreet.com ) – Delphi’s (DPH:NYSE – commentary – research – Cramer’s Take) bankruptcy filing might make it Black Monday for the auto parts industry, but for hedge funds with bigbets riding on the company’s stock and bonds, the picture […]

( The National Business Review ) – As a way of achieving out-performance, the recent unprecedented surge in the demand for hedge funds will ease as the industry commoditises, according to a study published by KPMG International. The study presents […]

BOSTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Hedge funds made money in the third quarter but not as much as the stock market, raising questions whether investors will want to keep paying their hefty fees if they can earn more somewhere else […]

( www.economist.com ) – Forget the leadership squabbles at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. The best story in the British press this weekend was of a deal-happy hedge-fund manager who spent £36,000 ($64,000) in a London bar in a single […]

Portland Business Journal – By Touch taps hedge funds to raise $130M Fingerprint scanner company went to hedge funds to raise $130 million in debt financing, rather than turn to venture capital firms, the company said Wednesday. The San Francisco […]

( www.thestreet.com ) – A long-running investigation into allegations of manipulative trading in the market for private stock placements by small companies isabout to heat up. The Securities and Exchange Commission is close to bringing enforcement actions against at least […]

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — Hedge funds such as Atticus Capital LLC are betting that Archipelago Holdings Inc. and Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. will dominate the business of U.S. stock trading as markets combine. Atticus raised its stake in Archipelago by […]

( www.northewestherald.com ) – Suppose you wanted to invest in hedge funds, and your principal was guaranteed by the FederalDeposit Insurance Corp. At first blush, this sounds like an easy way to anchor a risky investment within a safe vehicle. […]