Yearly Archives: 2008
What Makes Me Bearish? Hedge Fund Sales on the Horizon
Seeking Alpha – Investors pulled at least $43bn from U.S. hedge funds in September as market turmoil led to unprecedented withdrawals, an analysis by a leading research house shows. The data from TrimTabs Investment Research – which was to be […]
Andrew Lahde says goodbye to hedge funds
First Post – There’s no doubt which was the most popular reading material in the blogosphere this weekend – the extraordinary ‘farewell letter’ from Andrew Lahde, one of the most successful hedge fund manager in the world, who has said […]
Hedge Funds: 2008’s Winners and Losers
Seeking Alpha – Hedge funds often try to offset potential losses in the principal markets they invest in by hedging their investments using a wide variety of techniques. For this very reason, many of them rarely disclose any of their […]
Currency shakeout to benefit hedge funds
Reuters UK – Recent sharp moves in global currencies are the start of longer trends set to produce strong money-making opportunities for trend-following hedge strategies, according to Insch Capital Chief Executive Chris Cruden. Cruden, whose Insch Interbank Currency Program is […]
Hedge funds set student loan firms in their sights
Guardian Unlimited – After being accused of precipitating the present financial crisis by short-selling banks, hedge funds are now turning their attention to student loans. Jim Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos, one of the best known short- selling hedge […]
Hedge funds add to markets’ pain
USA Today – The great unwind in the secretive hedge fund world caused by steep losses has contributed to the megapain in the stock market. Wealthy folks and big investors yanked a record $31 billion to $43 billion out of […]
Andrew Lahde’s Farewell Letter
Today I write not to gloat. Given the pain that nearly everyone is experiencing, that would beentirely inappropriate. Nor am I writing to make further predictions, as most of my forecasts inprevious letters have unfolded or are in the process […]
California Hedge Fund Manager Charged with “Porfolio Pumping”
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The Securities and Exchange Commission charged San Francisco-based MedCap Management & Research LLC and its principal Charles Frederick Toney, Jr. with defrauding investors via “portfolio pumping.” “Fund investors relied on MMR and Toney to abide by […]
ICI Offers Alternative to Pickens Plan
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – A national program known as the Intelligent Community Initiative (ICI) is offering an alternative restructuring operation using interconnected client-server databases and online training, resulting, the company says, in self-sustaining financial communities which are not as […]
Christine Lagarde warned Hank Paulson to bail out Lehman Brothers
Telegraph.com.UK – Sources close to Mrs Lagarde said that she had called the US Treasury Secretary – a close personal friend – well before the ailing bank’s collapse imploring him to act, but he chose not to. Lehman Brothers’ demise […]
‘Armageddon’ Loan, Bond Prices Keep Debt Investors on Sidelines
Bloomberg – Credit markets have fallen so far that they are providing a "once in a lifetime opportunity," and investors are still selling. Prices of loans rated below investment grade declined to a record low 66.1 cents on the dollar, […]
