Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

MINISTERS moved to reassure business today over the cost of a fund to protect 10 million workers from the risk of losing their pensions. Work and Pensions Secretary Andrew Smith said payments into the fund would be “risk-related” so that […]

THE Government today announced a new pensions safety net system to ensure people do not lose out if their company and its pension fund go bust. The move was hailed as a “big step forward” by the Cabinet minister responsible, […]

Strong expected to settle soon CEO Wessels also says talks with buyers might wrap up ‘quite shortly’ By DAVE UMHOEFER AND KATHLEEN GALLAGHER [email protected] Thursday, February 12, 2004 Strong Financial Corp.’s new leader said Wednesday he believed the firm would […]

xfdws TRANSFORMATION sked Emerging Markets DatafileFebruary 12, 2004 XINHUA CHINA ENGLISH Transformation for banking, securities industries in 2004: Deloitte, XINHUA ASIA WorldSources, Inc. 322 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE 2ND FLOOR, NE WASHINGTON, DC 20002 COPYRIGHT 2003 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE […]

When Gabelli Asset Management issued its earnings release on January 29, 2004, we pointed out that we would re-open our Gabelli ABC Fund on March 1, 2004. Since we received a number of inquiriesrelated to this announcement, we thought it […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Man Investments has launched a new hedge fund, a multi-strategy capital guaranteed bond fund, according to a released company statement. The new fund, called theMan RMF Multi-Style Ltd fund, would invest in five different […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The investment asset manager, Focus Group is making final preparations to unveil a new hedge fund in a few weeks time. The firm announced that its new hedge fund,the Focus Arbitrage Enhanced fund would […]

VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda (AP) — Through mossy vines, I was watching large black fuzzy heads munch quietly on leafy lunches when I noticed that I, too, was being watched, closely, on MountKarisimbi. As a mountain gorilla emerged briskly from […]

When Gabelli Asset Management issued its earnings release on January 29, 2004, we pointed out that we would re-open our Gabelli ABC Fund on March 1, 2004. Since we received a number of inquiriesrelated to this announcement, we thought it […]

CHOOSING the best pension provider is not rocket science – it all boils down to investment performance. If you don’t have access to a company pension scheme then you have to go down the personal pension route. In the 1990s […]

GOVERNMENT plans for a pensions lifeboat were slammed today, hours ahead of publication of a new pensions Bill. Pension experts said the proposed Pensions Protection Fund would add to the flood of employers abandoning guaranteed pensions. Opposition to the PPF […]

Feb. 11–OPEC MOVE TO BOOST GCC STOCKS: GCC stock markets are likely to have the wind in their sails this week thanks to Opec’s decision to cut oil production. Higher oil prices have underpinnedrecent stock market performance, and the Opec […]