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Hedge Funds: Defensive In Tone, Aggressive In Strategy
Wall Street Journal Blogs – In an effort to forestall more redemptions and panic, hedge-fund managers preached “strong stomachs” and washed their hands of responsibility for losses in the latest round of investor letters. A review of nearly a dozen […]
Bankers take a billhook to the hedge funds
Times Online – Hedge fund managers are paranoid. And they are right to be. The other day I had lunch with a senior financial official whose view of hedge funds was simple. “They were a con. The returns were all […]
Why hedge funds are crying
BBC – It may be a case of shutting the stable door after the thundering herd has bolted, but law and order is being brought to the wild wild west of global financial markets. G Brown will, for example, in […]
Funds of Hedge Funds: ‘A Diminishing Slice Of a Growing Pie’
Seeking Alpha – As the Wall Street Journal pointed out earlier this week, “It may be premature to write the epitaph for funds of hedge funds”. Maybe so, but with predictions for redemptions running in the high teens for this […]
Opening The Fed Lending Window To Hedge Funds
24/7 Wall St. – The idea of bailing out hedge funds or helping them in any way runs counter to the best instincts of most citizens, regulators, and law makers. The wealthy do not need a Good Samaritan. Allowing hedge […]
Pickens hedge fund has lost more than $1 billion
Houston Chronicle – Boone Pickens, the billionaire founder of BP Capital LLC, said 15 percent of his hedge funds’ holders have asked for the option to withdraw their money after he lost more than $1 billion in energy trades this […]
Hedge Fund Rebukes Republic Services
Wall Street Journal – Hedge fund Elliott Associates LP made public a letter to Republic Services Inc. in which it said the company’s board wasn’t doing its duty by fully considering the raised $6.73 billion takeover bid from Waste Management […]
Deutsche Borse Rejects Funds
Wall Street Journal – Deutsche Börse AG’s supervisory board reaffirmed the stock-exchange operator’s business model Friday, defying activist hedge funds that had been seeking a change in strategy after this year’s steep fall in the company’s share price. "The ongoing […]
WhiteRock Says Markets May Be Rollercoastering but Recruitment is Accelerating
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Recruiters at WhiteRock Group are seeing increased opportunity for job-seekers and hiring firms. The meltdown in sub-prime mortgages, and the ensuing credit crunch, has led to uncertainty and turmoil throughout financial markets worldwide, says WhiteRock, […]
Wall Street Jounal Columnist Speaks at Hedge Fund Summit
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Wall Street Journal columnist Gregory Zuckerman and Ely Razin, senior director of strategy, Westlaw Business, will deliver a luncheon presentation on "State of the Hedge Funds for 2008" at a upcoming Hedge Fund General Counsel […]
Hedge Funds’ Capital Idea: Fee Cuts
Wall Street Journal – In another sign of the changing power dynamics between hedge funds and their investors, funds are offering to cut fees if investors agree to stay put. Camulos Capital LP in a letter last week asked its […]
Hedge Funds Get Rattled As Investors Seek Exits
Wall Street Journal – With anxiety about hedge-fund woes gripping the market, funds have their own fear: their investors. Some investors, particularly what are known as "funds of funds," are demanding their money back and may ramp up requests in […]
