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Harvard seeks to manage more money internally: report
Reuters – Harvard University’s multibillion dollar endowment is adopting a strategy of selling off some holdings in hedge funds, private-equity firms and other money managers to bring more money under the control of internal investing staff over the next few […]
Arrest Over Software Illuminates Wall St. Secret
New York Times – Criminal and civil charges against a former Goldman Sachs employee offer a glimpse into the turbulent world of ultrafast computerized stock trading, Alex Berenson wrote in The New York Times. Flying home to New Jersey from […]
Investors Begin Opening Their Wallets to Hedge Funds Again
Wall Street Journal Blogs – Are hedge-fund managers making a comeback with investors? The great recession hammered the hedge-fund industry in 2008. Returns tumbled, redemptions soared and investors began questioning the very underpinnings of the industry. Active managers promise to […]
Sovereign funds join forces for strategic investment
Reuters – An increasing number of sovereign wealth funds are working in concert to make joint strategic investments in order to reduce risks and maximize returns, which could provide a stabilizing force in financial markets. State-owned funds from China, Singapore, […]
Investors eye top startups as IPO market awakens
Reuters – Investors, encouraged by a growing number of acquisitions and public floats in the past few months, are keeping a close eye on a coterie of promising startups in Silicon Valley. An informal poll of venture capitalists and others […]
Bronte Capital exposes rogue Hedge Fund Marketers who Link the Biden family to Hedge Fund Fraud
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – On the 18 of March, the Australian Hedge Fund & Research team at Bronte Capital began dropping hints regarding an un-named $60 million dollar Ponzi Scheme. In a blog entry named "Curiouser and Curiouser" Bronte […]
Aviva moves to stop lending shares to hedge funds
Insurance giant Aviva could end the practice of lending shares to hedge funds in a move against short-selling. Aviva shares were battered on the stock market earlier this month – losing 40pc of their value in two days – amid […]
Hedge fund code to catch the willing and unwilling
Reuters- Many of Europe’s hedge funds will sign up to a voluntary code of standards to appease institutional investors and avoid punitive regulation, but even those that don’t will be unable to ignore it. The standards on governance and disclosure, […]
A Bear executive’s Wall Street comeback
BusinessWeek- Former Bear Stearns executive Richard Marin certainly knows a thing or two about hedge fund failures. Marin was the chairman of Bear Stearns Asset Management when the division’s two big hedge funds imploded last summer, an event that led […]
Hedge Funds Buy Stakes in Merrill
Wall Street Journal- In addition to bulls and bears, many hedge funds are becoming more familiar with donkeys and elephants. Hedge Funds across the country, including a number with offices in lower Fairfield County, are contributing more money than ever […]
World’s largest hedge fund firm now in India
Business Standard- Renaissance Technologies, the world’s largest hedge fund firm handling assets worth $35.4 billion (Rs 1,41,600 crore), has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to operate in the Indian stock markets as a foreign […]
Russia’s Hedge Funds Show Strong Growth & Potential
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Russia’s strong economic growth, rapidly expanding domestic market and increasing financial market liquidity has been fuel for rapidly expanding hedge funds and specialist investors in Russia and the former Soviet Union (FSU). One such company is […]