Category Archives: Success Stories
[Updated] Russian Hedge Funds lead the way in October
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Russia lead the way in October reporting gains of 4.16% in October. Emerging markets total index grew 1.55% in October and is up 36% this year. Latin America rose 2.18% for the month and Asia, excluding […]
Taleb: I Have Discovered The Solution To The Global Financial Crisis
The Business Insider – Nassim Taleb and his hedge-fund partner Mark Spitznagel weigh in in the FT with an analysis of the world’s problem (too much debt) and a reasonable solution (convert some of the debt to equity). As usual, […]
Obama’s Overhaul Would Register Hedge Funds
Courthouse News Service – President Obama’s plan to overhaul financial regulations, to prevent a repeat of the country’s credit and banking catastrophe, is laid out in a "nearly final" 85-page document the president is expected to reveal today. Among […]
BT could face £11bn pension fund deficit
Daily Telegraph – Mr Ralfe estimates that under "true market valuations" the hole in BT’s pension could have ballooned to over £11bn – more than the market capitalisation of the former state-owned telecoms company. The claims came ahead of BT […]
Hedge Fund Tracking: Seth Klarman & Baupost Group, Q3 2008
SeekingAlpha.com – This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series. Next up is Baupost Group ran by Seth Klarman. Klarman received his MBA from Harvard Business School and started working at Baupost at age […]
What 2009 holds for smaller resource stocks
Investors Chronicle – 2008 witnessed a boom and bust of monumental proportions in the junior mining and oil and gas sectors. From being among the London market’s strongest performers, driven by record commodity prices, resources stocks plummeted out of favour […]
Hedge Fund Launched in ’07 Completes Successful 1st Year
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The DM Swiss Equity Asymmetric Fund has successfully completed its first year of operation realising a net gain for its investors +2.67%. "We are extremely pleased to see the fund successfully navigate its way through […]
Hedge Funds Help Fill Gap In Lending For Property
Wall Street Journal – Three months ago, Eric Gray saw an opportunity to scoop up a vacant retail property in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn. But he had a problem, one that has been plaguing many real-estate investors and […]
ActionsXchange Appoints Laura Pollard As Company Head
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund Provider, Fidelity ActionsXchange, has appointed Laura J. Pollard as executive vice president and head of the company. Pollard will report to Larry C. Renfro, president of Fidelity Developing Businesses, a new division that […]
Man Group in Gulf waste gas move
Financial Times – Man Group has teamed up with an Abu Dhabi-owned investment company to make electricity from the gas produced as a byproduct of oil drilling, which is currently wasted in the form of flaring. Abu Dhabi will inject […]
Times Tamer’s $4 Billion Fund Push
New York Post- Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners – the hedge fund that won a battle to land board seats at The New York Times Co. – is expanding its size and presence to capitalize on its newfound clout. Falcone […]
Manager vows to beat hedge fund returns for less
Reuters – Jerome Abernathy has a proposition for the world’s biggest pension funds — better returns than hedge funds without the headaches or heavy costs. This may sound too good to be true to institutional investors, who have poured billions […]