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		<title>Hedge funds soar in &#8217;09, most still in the red</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe &#8211; Hedge funds are having their best year since 1998, yet most fund managers still are well below their peaks before the market&#8217;s meltdown last year, industry analysts said. Hedge fund assets rose 2.5 percent in July, contributing to a 9.9 percent climb over the first seven months of the year, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund best practices event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examiner &#8211; There is a global movement towards the harmonization of best practices and standards in the hedge fund industry amongst investors, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, policymakers, service providers and regulatory authorities. In response to the global financial crisis, the G20 agrees on the need to extend regulation and oversight to all systemically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed income unit boosts BNP Paribas CIB revenues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; French bank BNP Paribas&#8217;s revenues from corporate and investment banking nearly doubled in the second quarter as robust investor demand boosted revenues from the bank&#8217;s fixed income business unit. BNP Paribas&#8217;s CIB revenues totaled 3.351 billion euros ($4.82 billion) for the quarter, up 81 percent from the second quarter of 2008, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing suits, Merkin sells art trove</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; It&#8217;s been a bad few months for New York financier J. Ezra Merkin. First, his hedge funds lost $2.4 billion in the Bernard Madoff swindle. Then, he lost his post as chairman of GMAC Financial Services. Now, he&#8217;s parting with his prized art collection. Bombarded by lawsuits accusing him of fraud, Merkin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Street to administer Caxton hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; State Street Corp., which specializes in serving institutional investors and wealthy customers, said Thursday it has been selected to provide hedge fund administration services for about $6 billion in assets advised by Caxton Associates. State Street&#8217;s hedge fund administration company International Fund Services will provide accounting, fund administration, tax and risk services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays sees $50 billion hedge fund inflows this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Improving markets and a need to recoup 2008 losses will prompt investors to pour $50 billion (30 billion pounds) into hedge funds this year and slow redemptions, Barclays Capital said in a report on Tuesday. More than 300 investors surveyed by Barclays&#8217; prime brokerage unit reported stashing, on average, 14 percent of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund Pequot closing as probe back in spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; Prominent hedge fund firm Pequot Capital told investors on Wednesday it will shut down because of a reopened government probe into possible insider trading. &#34;Public disclosures about the continuing investigation have cast a cloud over the firm and have become a source of personal distraction,&#34; the firm&#8217;s founder Arthur Samberg, long one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cahill ally brokered pension fund deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; He is a close political ally and prodigious fund-raiser for state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill. When a blue-chip New York financial firm was trying to persuade Cahill and his staff to award it a lucrative contract to manage state pension money, it hired Anthony S. Rust to push their cause. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trustee sues Fairfield Greenwich funds for $3.54b</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff&#8217;s defunct money-management firm sued three Fairfield Greenwich Group hedge funds, seeking the return of $3.54 billion withdrawn before Madoff&#8217;s massive fraud unraveled. The trustee, Irving Picard, filed the so-called clawback lawsuit yesterday in federal court in Manhattan, seeking damages that would be used to repay victims of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Backed Korean-American for Boston Mayor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MassMutual unit told to return funds from Madoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; The trustee in the bankruptcy case of swindler Bernard L. Madoff has told a hedge fund business owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to return money that it received from Madoff over the past six years. Responding to a Boston Globe inquiry, bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard confirmed that he had sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund firm behavior faces state scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; Secretary of State William F. Galvin is investigating Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.&#8217;s relationship with a hedge fund operation that lost $3.3 billion to admitted swindler Bernard L. Madoff. Galvin, who oversees the state Securities Division, said his office is looking into MassMutual as part of an ongoing probe of investment firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Globe could file shutdown notice Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Talks between The Boston Globe and its unions to prevent the U.S. newspaper from shutting down stopped early Monday morning after a midnight deadline passed, and it was unclear when they would resume. An hour after the midnight deadline passed, negotiations had broken down, but likely will resume sometime during the night, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay State firm is sued in Madoff scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; Investors of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have filed 18 lawsuits against Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in an effort to recoup $3.3 billion that its hedge fund group lost in the scandal. But the Springfield insurer is trying to distance itself from the ordeal and says it has no liability in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MassMutual hedge fund sued in loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; A Boston law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against a hedge fund controlled by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. for placing all of the fund&#8217;s assets with Bernard Madoff, who is facing life in prison for conducting a massive fraud. The lead plaintiff is Lawrence J. Rothschild, a Needham businessman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe pledges more funds for IMF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; The leaders of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy yesterday said that the resources of the International Monetary Fund should be doubled, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit hard by the global economic and financial crisis. The officials also said, in a statement clearly aimed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downturn spurs some foundations to give more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; At a time when most foundations are cutting back or maintaining last year&#8217;s spending, a few are doing what hedge fund manager Ken Nickerson of the Eos Foundation calls &#34;counter-cyclical giving.&#34; They&#8217;re increasing their grants. Nickerson heard a story last October that helped him decide how to steer his family foundation through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bain Capital raises $475m for latest fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; Despite the gloom gripping the markets, Bain Capital has raised $475 million for a new venture capital fund, according to two executives with direct knowledge of the fund. It is the firm&#8217;s fourth fund that invests in start-ups. Bain is perhaps best known for its multibillion-dollar private equity deals. The Boston firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pension fund fires 2 money managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; The Massachusetts state pension fund fired two money managers yesterday for poor performance, including one that had lost $12 million investing with accused swindler Bernard L. Madoff. Austin Capital Management, which had managed $170 million in state retirement funds, was fired after it lost $40 million, including the money invested with Madoff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Crisis for New York Times Hedge Fund Shareholders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Some analysts are saying that the mighty New York Times might be headed down the same path as the bankrupt Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Hedge fund shareholders, Harbinger Capital Partners Funds and Firebrand Partners own 19% of&#160;the NYT&#160;Company, and the outlook does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. judge restrains Merkin funds in Madoff lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; A judge extended an order on Tuesday barring hedge fund founder Ezra Merkin from shutting down funds that had invested with accused swindler Bernard Madoff or withdrawing money from them. New York State Supreme Court Justice Richard Lowe issued the extension in a lawsuit brought on December 23 by New York University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times May Sell Red Sox Stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Chronicle &#8211; The New York Times Co is trying to sell its stake in the holding company of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The sale, which could give the Times desperately needed cash as newspaper advertising revenue falls and its [...]]]></description>
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