Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Atticus, Viking Hedge Funds Bet on US Stock Markets’ Shares
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 […]
Hedge fund CDs too detailed
( 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. […]
Hedge funds likely to pose a risk to retail investors
( www.businessstandard.com ) – Hedge funds do not pose a systemic risk to the world’s financial system, but there is a need to look into the way in which they are sold to smaller investors, according to Malcolm D Knight, […]
Gold, Little Changed, May Fall as Hedge Funds Sell Holdings
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Gold prices, little changed in Asian trading, may decline this week as hedge funds sell their holdings. Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators have more than doubled their so-called net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, […]
Hedge funds not systemic risk but need scrutiny-BIS
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Hedge funds do not pose a systemic risk to the world’s financial system but there is a need to look into the way in which they are sold to smaller investors, the Bank forInternational Settlement’s general manager […]
Hedge Fund Clients: A Loyal Group
NEW YORK – Hedge fund investors may wobble, but they don’t fall down–even if returns are more in keeping with savings accounts than with some Flying Wallendas’ investmentvehicle. A new survey states that 91% of investors said their hedge fund […]
Mellon HBV Establishes Hong Kong – Based Research Team
NEW YORK, October 5, 2005 – Mellon HBV Alternative Strategies LLC, asubsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, today announced that it hasestablished a specialist research team in Hong Kong to cover Asianmarkets. This team will support Mellon HBV’s global multi-strategydiscipline and […]
Local investors sank $1.5 million into collapsed hedge fund
( www.theroyalgazette.com ) Forty-five Bermuda-based investors pumped almost $1.5 million dollars into a collapsed Canadian hedge fund that is now under investigation in Canada. Until regulators shut it down in February, Portus Alternative Asset Management was one of the fastest-growing […]
Global watchdog IOSCO drawing up hedge fund rules
FRANKFURT, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Global financial market watchdog group, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), said on Wednesday it was drawing up rules to regulate the increasingly powerful hedge fund industry. Technical advisers to IOSCO meeting in Frankfurt […]
Performance and Advertising – SEC Examination Focus on Hedge Fund Managers
By February 2006, most hedge fund managers will need to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SECâ€Â) and thereby become subject to the SEC’s inspections and examinations program. It is clear from recent SEC enforcement actions that […]
U.S. hedge funds may slip past SEC, research shows
BOSTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Hundreds of U.S. hedge funds may slip through the crack when they register with regulators, new research shows, causing a humiliating if not harmful situation as authorities begin to scrutinize the industry more closely. Life […]
Institutions seen dominating hedge funds
LONDON (Reuters) – Institutions such as pension funds that are searching for returns independent of stocks and bonds are expected to be the biggest hedge fund investors in the future, a survey byconference organiser ICBI showed. Institutions are looking to […]