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		<title>Can hedge funds be synthetically replicated?</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/can-hedge-funds-be-synthetically-replicated.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morningstar &#8211; A new breed of clone funds seeks to capture &#34;alternative beta.&#34; It wasn&#8217;t long ago that hedge funds were on the very cutting edge of finance. Their pitch was simple: they could deliver pure alpha , rather than the heavy doses of beta being dished up by long-only mutual funds. The rub was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IndexIQ Launches Second Hedge Fund Replication ETF: MCRO</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/indexiq-launches-second-hedge-fund-replication-etf-mcro.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; The second hedge fund replication ETF from IndexIQ began trading on Tuesday (6/09/09). According to the press release, the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (MCRO) seeks to deliver risk-adjusted return characteristics similar to macro and emerging-market style hedge funds. IndexIQ maintains indexes representing seven separate hedge fund strategies. Their first ETF, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich pickings ahead for hedge fund survivors</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/rich-pickings-ahead-for-hedge-fund-survivors.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times &#8211; It is becoming clear that the hedge fund universe is set to shrink. The most obvious casualties will be highly levered funds, in particular the strategies that cannot justify their fees without that level of leverage, such as a number of arbitrage strategies. In addition, depending on what further regulation is put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Rewards Outweigh Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold Seek &#8211; Risk has quickly regained its status as a four-letter word. No one wants to hear about it and no one wants to think about it. But those willing to take it on (pragmatically, mind you) will likely earn greater rewards than they would have at any other point in the past twenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Shocked, Shocked: My Hedge Fund Didn&#8217;t Hedge!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; &#34;In my view they didn&#8217;t do what they set out to do &#8230; which was to hedge. I saw a few hedge funds that did much worse than my long-only fund, which is rather ironic,&#34; [Veritas Asset Management manager Ezra Sun] said. The losses have disappointed many investors who had expected positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A hedge fund that actually hedges risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; This is how bad things are for hedge funds right now. On the CanadianHedgeWatch.com website, a hub for the hedge business, the lead article one recent day was headlined &#34;The hedge fund collapse.&#34; The article, which originally appeared on the Portfolio.com website, tells us that as many as half the 10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quant traders limit risk as losses mount</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/11/2008/quant-traders-limit-risk-as-losses-mount.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Robust returns for a group of powerful hedge funds that thrived for years using sophisticated trading programs may be a thing of the past after a &#34;Black Swan&#34; event hit global markets this year. The carnage in financial markets worldwide, what many viewed as a so-called Black Swan event because it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress goes after hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BloggingStocks &#8211; Congress will bring in a bunch of big hedge fund managers like George Soros and ask them why they make so much money. It will also try to figure out if they control too much of the trading on Wall Street and borrow too much money from banks putting them at risk if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds: will it be a renaissance Man?</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/11/2008/hedge-funds-will-it-be-a-renaissance-man.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Hedge funds are supposed to like risk and to love leverage. However, in the current markets, it has all got too much for Man Group. The world&#8217;s biggest quoted hedge fund manager &#8211; and historically one of the most successful &#8211; shocked investors yesterday by announcing plans to unwind all the leverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3i Infrastructure buys bonds from distressed hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; 3i Infrastructure, which is 43pc owned by private equity group 3i, said it had exploited an &#34;anomaly in the market&#34; and added it was keen to take part in any purchase of Gatwick, after BAA was told it must sell two of its three London airports. The fund has bought debt issued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dow Jones Suspends 2 Hedge Fund Benchmarks Amid Deleveraging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNNMoney.com &#8211; Dow Jones &#38; Co. has suspended the publication of two hedge-fund benchmarks and the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Balanced Portfolio Index that incorporates them, saying that the underlying hedge funds have been deleveraging in an effort to reduce the risk to their investors. Suspended are the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Equity Long/Short and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBVA unit says clients slash hedge fund exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Clients of Spain&#8217;s BBVA Patrimonios have cut hedge fund exposure by more than two-thirds over the past year after disappointing returns, says its chief investment officer, who believes the industry is in meltdown. &#34;Appetite for hedge funds has diminished dramatically,&#34; Enrique Marazuela told the Reuters Wealth Management Summit, adding that hedge funds had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yen slips, Aussie jumps as bank rescues take shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Tokyo &#8211; The yen dipped against higher-yielding currencies on Monday while the Australian dollar surged as leaders from Europe to the United States rushed out plans to shore up banks and stem the panic gripping investors. After many stock markets suffered their worst weekly losses ever last week, leaders from Group of Seven industrialised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf firms shy away from US distressed assets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emirates Business 24/7 &#8211; Cheap they may be, but not all cash-rich Gulf investors are up for buying distressed assets in the US. Such a move historically was a good way to make a profit. A good fund manager can buy up distressed assets for pennies on the dollar and figure out ways to sell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds to hand back millions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; In the biggest-ever round of redemptions, funds around the world are braced to give back between 10pc and 50pc of their assets under management. Hedge funds were faced with a slew of redemption notices at the start of the quarter, but investors were prepared not to withdraw their money if returns improved, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Derivatives Market Shrinks 12% as Dealers Reduce Trades</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Credit-default swap dealers reduced the volume of outstanding contracts for the first time amid efforts to reduce risks in a market used to hedge against bond losses and speculate on corporate creditworthiness. The volume of outstanding trades fell to $54.6 trillion from $62 trillion in the first half, the International Swaps and Derivatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffett&#8217;s &#8220;time bomb&#8221; goes off on Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; On Main Street, insurance protects people from the effects of catastrophes. But on Wall Street, specialized insurance known as a credit default swaps are turning a bad situation into a catastrophe. When historians write about the current crisis, much of the blame will go to the slump in the housing and mortgage markets, [...]]]></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>Fuel hedges could waste airlines&#8217; money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; U.S. airlines are cheering a steep decline in the price of jet fuel since mid-July, when crude oil began a nearly $27-per-barrel descent, but that good news may come with a slight sting for carriers that locked in fuel prices when oil was at its peak. The risk is that oil may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Funds Increase Use of Multiple Prime Brokers, Survey Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg- Asian hedge funds are increasing their use of multiple prime brokers after the U.S. subprime mortgage market collapse heightened the risk of relying on a single investment bank for brokerage services, an AsiaHedge survey found. Hedge funds that are managed in Asia or invest primarily in the region awarded 326 shared mandates to prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citi Special Situations Team To Found Distressed Debt Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FINalternatives- Another pair of Citigroup fixed-income executives is to set up its own hedge fund shop. Jeff Jacob and John Humphrey, who run the global special situations group they established at Citi four years ago, will leave the firm in about two months. Citi is splitting up their proprietary-trading desk, which focuses on distressed corporate [...]]]></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>Long-short funds flopped during slump</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Tribune- Maybe plain-vanilla stock and bond mutual funds will do the job after all. Long-short funds &#8212; the newfangled mutual funds designed to give common investors a hedge fund experience and protection during downturns &#8212; recently went through one of their first major tests. And they flopped. In July and August, with investors concerned [...]]]></description>
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