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		<title>U.S. and accused Bear managers battle over evidence</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2009/us-and-accused-bear-managers-battle-over-evidence.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday that two former Bear Stearns Cos hedge fund managers facing trial on fraud charges are trying to impede the government&#8217;s access to documentary evidence. Lawyers for one of the accused, Ralph Cioffi, described the allegations as &#8216;false and inflammatory&#8217; as the government asked a judge for a hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porsche offices raided in share probe</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2009/porsche-offices-raided-in-share-probe.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Post &#8211; German prosecutors are investigating executives at the sportscar firm over allegations of share-manipulation. Porsche denied any disclosure irregularities but many hedge funds and investment management firms were left wrong-footed after it made a shock announcement that it held more than 50 per cent of VW&#8217;s shares. German regulator BaFin dropped its initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case will throw light on funds before Bear Stearns collapsed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph &#8211; The funds collapsed as billions of dollars of bets made on mortgage-backed bonds and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) unravelled, and when the time came to try to sell some of the funds&#8217; sub-prime mortgages, no one wanted to buy them. At the centre of those funds sat two men &#8211; hedge fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry hedge fund settles with SEC over Mylan stake</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/perry-hedge-fund-settles-with-sec-over-mylan-stake.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund firm Perry Corp will pay $150,000 to settle accusations that it failed to report a substantial stake in Mylan Inc, purchased to support a proposed 2004 takeover of King Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The New York-based firm, led by Richard Perry and with $8.8 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Bahamas/UK Hedge Funds Settle With SEC on Late Trading Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/bahamas-uk-hedge-funds-settle-with-sec-on-late-trading-scheme.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) &#8211; Najy N. Nasser, Chief Investment Officer of the Bahamas/UK based hedge funds, Headstart Advisers Limited (HAL) and Headstart Fund, has agreed with the SEC to pay $17.8 million in a settlement regarding a 2003 alleged late trading scheme. Without admitting or denying the allegations, the civil settlement includes payments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK fund manager settles US market-timing case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle &#8211; A London-based hedge fund manager and its chief investment officer have agreed to a nearly $18 million settlement resolving U.S. regulators&#8217; allegations that one of its funds defrauded U.S. mutual funds and investors through trading practices such as market-timing. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Headstart Advisers Ltd. on Monday separately announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reputation beats returns at hedge fund Pequot</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/reputation-beats-returns-at-hedge-fund-pequot.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund industry icon Arthur Samberg&#8217;s startling decision to shut Pequot Capital shows how a firm&#8217;s reputation matters as much as its returns. For decades Samberg, who founded Pequot more than two decades ago, delivered strong performance no matter how markets behaved, enticing investors to funnel in so much cash that the firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VP Biden Hedge Fund Scandal: Why There&#8217;s Nothing Anyone Can Do To Prevent It</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/vp-biden-hedge-fund-scandal-why-theres-nothing-anyone-can-do-to-prevent-it.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BNET &#8211; A hedge fund Ponzi scheme scandal is breaking in the blogosphere &#8211; and it goes right to the top of political power.&#160; A little while ago, blogger John Hempton, who writes Bronte Capital, a finance blog, started sniffing around Connecticut-based hedge fund Ponta Negra.&#160; Hempton didn&#8217;t like what he found. After legal threats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In State Pension Inquiry, a Scandal Snowballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; The inquiry into corruption at the New York State pension fund started simply enough. Alan G. Hevesi, the former comptroller, was accused of using state workers as chauffeurs for his ailing wife. But by the time Mr. Hevesi resigned his office in late 2006, investigators for the Albany County district [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York, SEC investigates Carlyle Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SmartBrief &#8211; Carlyle Group is being investigated by New York prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegations that it made improper payments to get investments from the state&#8217;s pension fund. The payments allegedly were made to intermediaries and might have totaled in the millions. The investigation involves several investment companies and a practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge-Fund Investors Hire Private Eyes to Avoid New Madoffs</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/hedge-fund-investors-hire-private-eyes-to-avoid-new-madoffs.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Randy Shain said he wasn&#8217;t stunned when hedge-fund managers Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh were arrested last month for allegedly misappropriating $554 million in client funds. A probe three years ago by his First Advantage Investigative Services LLC found in public documents that a brokerage run by the pair had agreed to settle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAG Capital and owner settle U.S. SEC charges</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/mag-capital-and-owner-settle-us-sec-charges.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Investment adviser MAG Capital and its owner settled U.S. regulators&#8217; claims that it took warrants from three hedge funds it advised without compensating them, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The Los Angeles-based investment adviser and owner David Firestone, without admitting or denying the SEC&#8217;s allegations, will pay $100,000 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judges refuse Yorkshire plea on assets freeze</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/judges-refuse-yorkshire-plea-on-assets-freeze.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YorkshirePost &#8211; High Court judges yesterday refused an appeal brought by a man from Yorkshire whose assets were frozen in connection with an investigation by American financial regulators. Glenn Manterfield, from Sheffield, is under investigation by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over allegations of involvement in a US hedge fund fraud. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madoff scam may spark tightening of hedge rules</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/madoff-scam-may-spark-tightening-of-hedge-rules.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evening Standard &#8211; Veterans of the secretive $1.5 trillion (&#163;1 trillion) industry say the $50 billion Madoff fraud could bring about sweeping changes in the way the authorities monitor activity. &#34;This is an Enron moment for hedge funds,&#34; said Peter Rup, chief investment officer at New York hedge fund Orion Capital Management. &#34;Regulation would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds using technicals tipped for 2009-2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds using technical indicators are likely to fare better in the next two years than those purely basing their strategy on economic fundamentals, a survey of around 200 investors showed on Wednesday. The survey of asset managers, institutions, and high net worth investors at the Global Alternative Investment Management (GAIM) Fund of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-only funds to dominate shareholder mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Traditional long-only mutual funds are set to dominate shareholder registers again as the hedge fund industry shrinks and retail investors continue to stay away, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile, with institutions, including hedge funds, deleveraging aggressively, emerging markets equity issuance is set to fall to 10 percent of total volume in Europe, Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Financial Page Greasing the Slide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Yorker &#8211; &#8220;Death by a thousand cuts.&#8221; &#8220;Fire-sale liquidation.&#8221; &#8220;A vortex of selling.&#8221; No matter how people described the market collapse that hit a month ago, the message was the same: it felt like there was nowhere to go but down, and it felt like we&#8217;d be going there forever. (Given last week&#8217;s dip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitebox hedge fund puts halt to cashing out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis Star Tribune &#8211; Hedge fund manager Whitebox Advisors won&#8217;t let customers cash out, according to a national publication that follows the lightly regulated industry that manages money for affluent individuals and institutions. The Minneapolis firm, which runs about $4 billion in investor assets through several funds and strategies, is drafting a letter to investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealthy cut back hedge funds but no firesale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Wealthy investors are cutting back exposure to hedge funds after disappointing returns but are not exiting the sector wholesale, and are likely to come back again once markets have calmed down. High net worth individuals have been key drivers of the rapid growth of the $2.6 trillion industry. Many invested in free-wheeling portfolios [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buyout, Hedge Funds Will Be Next Dominos to Drop: Matthew Lynn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; If Sherlock Holmes were analyzing the credit crunch, he would be drawing our attention to the dog that didn&#8217;t bark, just as he did in &#8220;The Hound of the Baskervilles.&#8221; The dog, of course, would be hedge and private-equity funds. Anyone tracking markets in recent years will remember the prediction that the unregulated, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bailout to some, a hedge fund to others</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; Daniel Gross, writing on Slate, makes an interesting point about the latest version of the U.S. government&#8217;s bailout plan: The plan, officially known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, looks a lot like the prospectus for a hedge fund. &#8220;In the past, hedge funds &#8211; secretive pools of capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds control free markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks, I want to share some information with you on &#34;hedge funds.&#34; I have wanted to do this for some time now, but it seems each week some other topic pushes this one aside. Hedge funds are simply large &#8211; no, huge is a better term &#8211; piles of money. The very rich and very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs A Hedge Fund Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC &#8211; Returns are meager or negative, capital flows are slowing and hedge funds appear to be folding at a record rate; so monied investors might be prompted to ask &#8230; who needs a hedge fund anyway?&#160; &#8220;Institutions have taken over the hedge fund space,&#34; says Morningstar analyst Nadia Van Dalen, adding they are intrinsically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDS counterparty risks serious threat to global financial markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge Funds Review Magazine &#8211; Greenwich Associates conducted a study of 146 institutions in North America and Europe to determine how fears of counterparty risk were affecting institutional investment and trading strategies. The study revealed that 37% of participating institutions have over $50 billion in assets under management. A further 18% have more than $100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell to boost Asia property fund exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Singapore &#8211; U.S.-based Russell Investments, which manages over $211 billion (110 billion pounds) in assets, wants to boost its exposure to Asian real estate as it sees growing markets in China and India withstanding a global downturn. The company, which raises money from institutions such as pension funds and invests it with other fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global fluctuation may affect hedge fund demand positively</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish Daily News &#8211; Hedge funds, which have reached an estimated&#160;asset volume&#160;of $2 trillion globally by attracting investor&#8217;s interest with their&#160;rapidly changing asset allocation and high risk appetite, are about to be accessible to investors in Turkey. Oyak Securities, Garanti Bank, the Turkish lender co-owned by General Electric Co., and &#304;&#351; Investment are the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Merrill Banker Kim Abandons Plans for Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Dow Kim, the former head of trading and investment banking at Merrill Lynch &#38; Co., dropped plans to start a hedge fund after investors backed out, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Kim had been in discussions with institutions that had agreed to invest about $1 billion combined in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man says demand for fund products remained strong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Man Group Plc, the world&#8217;s biggest listed hedge fund company, said demand for its fund products had remained strong in the first quarter and it was confident about its prospects for the full year. Sales in the three months to June 30 were $5.0 billion (2.5 billion pounds) while funds under management increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA puts pressure on top five banks to support Bradford &amp; Bingley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online- The Financial Services Authority took the unprecedented step of pressuring Britain&#8217;s five biggest banks into supporting the revised rescue capital-raising at Bradford &#38; Bingley last week, The Times has learnt. HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and HBOS are understood to have each agreed to sub-underwrite &#163;20 million-worth of the reworked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pensions Picking Dollars, Shorted by Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg- Whenever pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies decide they should own dollar assets that are out of favor with hedge funds, the hedge funds lose. Institutional investors bought more dollars than they&#8217;ve sold this year, according to State Street Corp. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the largest money managers for institutions. [...]]]></description>
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