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French Trader Detained After Losing $1 Billion

New York (HedgeCo.Net) - French officials have arrested a trader who allegedly lost more than $1 billion in complex derivative trades.  Boris Picano-Nacci of mutual bank Caisse d’Epargne was taken in for questioning last week, days after the loss forced the bank’s top three executives to part ways. 
Prosecutors in Paris are currently investigating whether […]

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Rogers Hires Two People for Fund of Hedge Funds, Expects Growth

Bloomberg - Rogers Investment Advisors Y.K., a Tokyo-based hedge fund adviser, has hired Yoshiaki Iizuka and Eric Chong as it expects to more than double assets by the year-end.
Iizuka, 52, joined Rogers Investment on Aug. 1 as a managing director and head of Japanese research in Tokyo, after his most recent stint as chief investment […]

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Top firms line up as SocGen kicks off review

Legal Week - French banking giant Societe Generale (SocGen) is reviewing its global panel of legal advisers, with a raft of City and international firms applying to be considered.
Firms will be appointed to the panel for a three-year period starting on 1 January, 2009, with the initial deadline for applications closing at the end of […]

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Tri Global FX Launches FOREX Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Recent news from Reuters shows that there is a booming interest in foreign exchange markets. According to the article, FX traders are seeing an increasing demand from institutional players, pension funds, and corporations. However, searching the internet will reveal few true FX hedge funds.
Tri Global FX, a New York based FX […]

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Merrill Lynch Probes Trading Desk

Bloomberg - Merrill Lynch & Co., the third- largest U.S. securities firm, is probing one of its trading desks in London and has suspended a trader after discovering he may have overstated the value of some of the bank’s equity derivatives.
“The firm routinely reviews the marks our traders set,” Merrill spokesman Jezz Farr said May […]

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