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		<title>A lesson from hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2009/a-lesson-from-hedge-funds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herald &#8211; When you think about future financial stability, ask yourself this contrarian question: Why is it that the nefarious hedge funds, supposedly the bad boys of the financial world, actually came through last year’s crisis in relatively good shape? It was widely predicted that these funds, which invest huge pools of capital for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK &#8216;blocking tough finance rules&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News &#8211; The UK has &#8220;particular difficulties&#8221; regulating hedge funds &#8220;to put it politely&#8221;, Mr Steinbrueck told the weekly German news magazine. &#8220;There clearly is a lobby in London that wants to defend its competitive advantage tooth and claw,&#8221; Mr Steinbrueck told Stern magazine. Germany and France have led calls for more restrictions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund boss accuses PM of ignoring crunch alarm bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evening Standard &#8211; Jim Chanos said that Mr Brown, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a briefing that predicted banks were in dire danger &#8211; more than a year before the crisis hit last year. Mr Chanos, who made his name correctly predicting the downfall of Enron, said that Mr Brown and other G7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed can backfire on hedge fund seeders: Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Early-stage investors in hedge funds should not be too greedy when negotiating with start-ups or it may hit their own investment, warns Man Investments, which this week agreed a short-term deal with an Asian start-up fund. Net outflows of $300 billion between October and June, and the closure of the seeding operations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JPMorgan, Hedge Funds May Lose as Derivatives Proposal Advances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; President Barack Obama sent Congress his plan to rein in the $592 trillion over-the-counter derivatives industry, a measure that would cut into a profitable market for banks led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. The proposal issued yesterday would pressure derivatives users such as banks and hedge funds to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds shut out as banks win IMO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; A group of banks that financed the &#163;450 million leveraged buy-out (LBO) of car wash group IMO will take control of the struggling business leaving a rival group of hedge fund investors with nothing. In a High Court decision that lawyers say will damage hedge funds&#8217; interests in dozens of ailing private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK fraud authority investigation into BVI company prompts wider probe of structured finance, swaps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caribbean Net News &#8211; The UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating sales of credit-default swaps and structured-finance products, including collateralized debt obligations, prior to the credit crisis, following up an&#160;earlier investigation into a hedge fund and a related British Virgin Islands-registered company. The SFO is looking into whether banks sold such products with flawed valuations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. Probing Hedge Funds, Structured Finance Amid Fraud Concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The U.K. Serious Fraud Office is investigating sales of structured-finance products such as credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations prior to the global financial crisis. The SFO is looking into whether banks that sold the products knew that valuations were flawed, SFO spokesman Sam Jaffa said today. Jaffa said no specific companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geneva Funds of Funds Slump as Banks Struggle to Nullify Madoff</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/geneva-funds-of-funds-slump-as-banks-struggle-to-nullify-madoff.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Geneva banks, which began investing client money in funds of hedge funds during the 1960s, are struggling to rebuild the business after market losses and Bernard Madoff&#8217;s Ponzi scheme cut assets by 72 percent. The assets of funds of funds managed from Geneva slumped to $15 billion in May from $54.2 billion at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on You, Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barron &#8211; President Obama took credit Wednesday for the recovery in the financial markets while at the same time decrying Wall Street&#8217;s profits and the big bonuses that will be paid out as a result. In his prime-time news conference, Obama said that if shaming those on Wall Street who take home multi-billion-dollar bonuses doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geneva Funds of Funds Slump as Banks Struggle to Nullify Madoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Geneva banks, which began investing client money in funds of hedge funds during the 1960s, are struggling to rebuild the business after market losses and Bernard Madoff&#8217;s Ponzi scheme cut assets by 72 percent. The assets of funds of funds managed from Geneva slumped to $15 billion in May from $54.2 billion at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereign fund assets shrink to $3 trln</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian &#8211; Value of assets held by the world&#8217;s sovereign wealth funds fell to $3 trillion this year from $3.6 trillion at end-2007 as the credit crisis nearly halved their equity portfolio, according to Deutsche Bank. The German bank&#8217;s report on state-owned investment funds also highlighted their positive long-term prospects, with their total assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SocGen reducing China fund venture stake &#8211; sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; French bank Societe Generale (SocGen) plans to reduce its holdings in its China fund joint venture due to regulatory concerns after a global reorganisation, two people familiar with the situation said. SocGen already owns a fund venture with a unit of Shanghai Baosteel Group, and will become an indirect stakeholder in Credit Agricole&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge-Fund Startups Sprout as Roc Gathers $1 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 16 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Arvind Raghunathan , former head of Deutsche Bank AG&#8217;s global arbitrage business, will open his new hedge-fund firm next month with more than $1 billion, a sign that investors are trickling back after record losses last year. Roc Capital Management LP&#8217;s assets will include $500 million in a separate account from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Jones named Hedge Fund Correspondent at Financial Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalism.co.uk &#8211; The Financial Times has appointed Sam Jones as hedge fund correspondent. In his new role, Jones will be in charge of covering the global hedge fund industry. &#34;Hedge funds are in a state of crisis: they are hugely secretive and facing extremely tough times as governments move in with new regulation and banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Einhorn, still a hedge fund rock star</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FierceFinance &#8211; David Einhorn, the head of Greenlight Capital, caused quite a stir at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference last year. He made it known that he was shorting Lehman Brothers, which was trading at $60 at the time. You know the rest of the story. It&#8217;s no surprise that people, including a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Aggressive government action can hurt the market, but regulators should clamp down on excessive borrowing by banks and investors to prevent another credit crisis, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Singer said at a conference. Singer said the current &#8216;anti-capitalist&#8217; fervor, inspired by last year&#8217;s market meltdown and the ongoing recession, will likely lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Aggressive government action can hurt the market, but regulators should clamp down on excessive borrowing by banks and investors to prevent another credit crisis, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Singer said at a conference. Singer said the current &#34;anti-capitalist&#34; fervor, inspired by last year&#8217;s market meltdown and the ongoing recession, will likely lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Group of Creditors Tries to Block Chrysler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hedge fund turmoil a boon for family offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; Tumbling markets and redemption waves have been murder on hedge funds, but the turmoil will free up top-tier talent for a quiet but well-heeled corner of the market: family offices. The world&#8217;s wealthiest, not content to hand their fortunes to brokers and banks, can afford to build their own money management businesses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance Of Paying Citigroup Bankers Bonuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[24/7 Wall St. &#8211; Citigroup has gone to the Treasury to beg for bonuses for some of its most important traders, people who make the banks extraordinary amounts of money. The Treasury&#8217;s reaction will probably be that it wants to stay out of a fight with Congress and avoid negative public opinion and will turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler lenders offer to swap $2.5B for equity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Times &#8211; Banks and hedge funds that hold $6.9 billion in Chrysler LLC debt have proposed forgiving $2.5 billion of it in exchange for about a 40 percent stake a Chrysler-Fiat alliance, according to two people briefed on the proposal. One of the people said the lenders delivered their counterproposal to Chrysler and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Miller Not Dead Yet With Value Funds Burying Quants in &#8217;09</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Companies with the most debt and lowest returns on assets are turning the biggest six-week rally in stocks since 1938 into a bloodbath for last year&#8217;s best- performing trading strategy. Investors in so-called quantitative momentum funds &#8212; which speculate that the worst stocks in the past 12 months will continue to decline &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star commodities traders ditch banks for hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Star commodity traders, once synonymous with high-profile banks, are leaving for little-known investment firms that let them work and earn in ways iconic Wall Street firms no longer can. The financial crisis and its amplifying threat on risk taking, bonus and pay at major financial institutions is causing big names like Goldman Sachs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JP Morgan backs out of toxic assets plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mail Tribune &#8211; The Treasury Department on Thursday defended the viability of its $1 trillion plan to get soured mortgage investments off of banks&#8217; books after JPMorgan Chase&#8217;s chief executive said the company won&#8217;t participate in the program. Some analysts said comments by JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon could spell trouble for Treasury&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star commodities traders ditch banks for hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Star commodity traders, once synonymous with high-profile banks, are leaving for little-known investment firms that let them work and earn in ways iconic Wall Street firms no longer can. The financial crisis and its amplifying threat on risk taking, bonus and pay at major financial institutions is causing big names like Goldman Sachs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman yields bonanza for the professionals</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/lehman-yields-bonanza-for-the-professionals.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Accountants and lawyers who are trying to sort out the European collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, have charged more than &#163;100million in fees in six months. The bonanza shows no sign of abating. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the administrator, says that costs will accrue at a similar rate over the coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE 1-Hedge fund manager Odey eyes new bull market</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/update-1-hedge-fund-manager-odey-eyes-new-bull-market.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; The current rally in stock markets may be the start of a new bull market, said hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, founding partner at Odey Asset Management and one of the hedge fund industry&#8217;s highest profile figures. &#8216;Opinion is divided over whether this is a bear market rally or the beginning of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to get taxpayers to help hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/obama-to-get-taxpayers-to-help-hedge-funds.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/obama-to-get-taxpayers-to-help-hedge-funds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thinker &#8211; The credit system has broken down. Banks have cooled on lending (maybe because they are not sure if the Obama administration will force a cram down in the future that would result in their loans being worth much less than they thought?). But the system also relies on hedge funds to purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury seeks more partners for bad asset program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norristown Times Herald &#8211; The Treasury Department is making it easier for hedge funds and other private investors to participate in its plan for buying up banks&#8217; bad assets, an acknowledgment that the interest level so far has been lackluster. Analysts said the move shows the program hasn&#8217;t yet attracted enough large fund managers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner May Oust Executives at Banks Needing &#8216;Exceptional&#8217; Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/geithner-may-oust-executives-at-banks-needing-exceptional-aid.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he&#8217;s prepared to oust executives and directors at banks that require &#8220;exceptional&#8221; assistance from the U.S. government. &#8220;If in the future, banks need exceptional assistance in order to get through this, then we will make sure that assistance comes,&#8221; while ensuring taxpayers are protected, Geithner said yesterday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bair pitches hedge funds and pensions on US bank plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, is in New York on Friday to meet with hedge funds, private equity funds and pension groups to promote the government&#8217;s plan to cleanse banks&#8217; balance sheets of toxic assets, a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday. Bair has said she would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Sam?s hedge fund is risk for economic recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fort Worth Business Press &#8211; The rescue of the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is, in all but name, a gigantic hedge fund. The government would lend vast sums to private investors to enable them to buy loss-ridden assets at discounts from banks with the prospect of making sizable profits. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes from Private Equity, Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/quotes-from-private-equity-hedge-funds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Following are key quotes from the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit. Below are some quotes from the summit&#8217;s second day speakers. &#34;Nothing much is actually happening. It will be tested over the course of the next 6 months. (The public market shareholders) do seem to be tacitly or directly encouraging companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner&#8217;s Toxic Asset Plan: Wall Street Finally Cheers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time.com &#8211; To stop the economy&#8217;s deflationary spiral, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner need to get toxic assets off banks&#8217; balance sheets so the banks can start lending again. With much fanfare and after much delay, Geithner on Monday unveiled the details of the government&#8217;s &#34;public-private&#34; collaborative plan to make that happen. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If Washington Bailed Out of Bailouts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business week &#8211; The idea certainly seemed all right to throngs of Americans who were outraged by news that American International Group (AIG) paid out millions of dollars in executive bonuses after it was rescued with taxpayer cash. But would no bailout be even worse? Financial analysts and federal officials have warned that doing nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut&#8217;s &#8220;Rodeo Drive&#8221; Abandoned as Hedge Funds Collapse</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/connecticuts-rodeo-drive-abandoned-as-hedge-funds-collapse.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Finding a parking spot for your Mercedes or BMW on Greenwich Avenue, the main shopping strip of the U.S. hedge-fund capital, used to be a challenge. Not anymore. With the recession hammering retail sales, empty curbside spaces abound along the suburban Connecticut thoroughfare, known as the Rodeo Drive of the northeast, and &#8220;For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s toxic assets plan greeted with skepticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press &#8211; The Obama administration&#8217;s latest plan to help banks get credit flowing again is drawing a tepid reaction from investors and academics, who say the proposal comes with too many strings attached and is unlikely to stimulate lending industrywide. And even if banks are willing to start lending more money, they wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Interview on &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217; / regarding hedge funds and AIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOXNews &#8211; MR. LENO: Tell people what happened. I know people have been over it, just &#8211; MR. OBAMA: Well, look, here&#8217;s what happened. You&#8217;ve got a company, AIG, which used to be just a regular, old insurance company. Then they insured a whole bunch of stuff and they were very profitable and it was [...]]]></description>
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