Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
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 […]
Atticus Boosts Phelps Stake, Demands Share Buyback
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — New York hedge fund Atticus Capital LLC boosted its stake in Phelps Dodge Corp., the world’s second- biggest copper producer, and demanded the mining company use an estimated $2.5 billion cash surplus to buy back stock. […]
Hedge funds boom led to £5bn riches
(The Guardian) Man Group is the most phenomenal money machine the City has seen for decades. Its trick was to catch the rise of hedge funds at their outset in the 1980s and pursue the growth of these”alternative” investments at […]
Connecticut’s Hedge Edge
(Hartford Courant: Ritu Kalra, Courant Staff Writer) When two financiers hung out a shingle and called themselves Fairfield Partners in Greenwich four decades ago, they were pioneers able to run the state’s first hedge fund in relative obscurity. Today, Fairfield […]
Hedge Fund Report: Railing Against Registration
( www.thestreet.com ) – Paul Atkins, the SEC commissioner who tried and failed to block a rule requiring hedge fund registration, continues to rail against the notion that 500 agency examiners can effectively regulate 8,000 private partnerships. “You can’t put […]
Hedge Fund CDs Insured by FDIC Bedeviled by Details
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg- John Wasik) — Suppose you wanted to invest in hedge funds and your principal was guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.? At first blush, this sounds like an easy way to anchor a risky investment within […]
Take upmost care when choosing a hedge fund
( www.netassets.co.za ) Some of the world’s most heinous atrocities have been committed in the name of religion. However, many of the world’s most caring acts of love and compassion have also been attributed to religion. The term “hedge fund” […]
Investcorp Partnership with Cura Capital Management offers clients
( www.cnn.com ) – Sophisticated investors use hedge funds to increase the overall performance of their investment portfolio. Hedge funds can generally achieve higherreturns, relative to risk, than traditional investments by using a range of innovative investment styles, hedging strategies […]
Anatomy Of A Hedge Fund
( The Hartford Courant – www.courant.com ) Hedge funds have become part of the cultural landscape. But many who use the term – including some would-beinvestors – do not understand what, exactly, a hedge fund is. Hedge funds began as investment […]
Hedge Fund Jumps Into Venture Debt Investing
( www.redherring.com ) – Lending money to fast-growing startup companies that could fizzle out as quickly as they caught flame may not be thesafest investment approach in the world, but it’s a money-making strategy that seems pretty staid compared to the kind […]
Hedge Funds Are Flying High
( www.forbes.com ) NEW YORK – Investors are opportunists, and both love bankruptcies. The airline industry is obliging all of them. Hedge funds and private equity groups are flocking to take on securities whose value is backed by leases on […]
Man Group says has supported U.S. hedge fund probe
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Man Group (EMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it had cooperated with the receiver of a collapsed U.S. hedge fund firm and that it was surprised by his motion for the London-listed financial company […]