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		<title>Update: Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson To Launch Gold Fund</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/11/2009/hedge-fund-billionaire-john-paulson-to-launch-gold-fund.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to investors, hedge fund manager John Paulson, who through Paulson&#38; Co., has raised over $1 billion for clients, has plans to launch a fund dedicated to buying up shares of bullion-related investments. The Wall Street Journal reports that the gold fund will aim to outperform gold prices, by investing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slumping Energy Demand Has Bottomed, Fund Manager Melis Says</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2009/slumping-energy-demand-has-bottomed-fund-manager-melis-says.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The decline in energy demand and drop in German electricity prices may have ended, according to the chief executive officer of hedge-fund manager Energy Capital Management BV. “The forward prices are at lows, the spot prices are at lows,” CEO Marcel Melis said yesterday at an energy markets and derivatives conference in London. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel fund files $470 mln claim against Lehman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund Citadel Investment Group claims it is owed $470.5 million on derivatives contracts it held with Lehman Brothers, according to a claim filed in a New York bankruptcy court last week. Citadel, which manages around $12 billion in assets, claims it is owed the money in its Citadel Equity Fund. The filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Lehman Banker Filippi Raises $35 Million for Commodity Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Edward Filippi, previously with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., raised $35 million for a hedge fund investing in energy, metals and agricultural derivatives. The Ground Zero Strategic Commodities Fund may begin trading in the first quarter of next year, according to Filippi, who spent a year selling commodity investment products for Lehman. The fund [...]]]></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>Guardian lost £24m in bungled currency trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Guardian Media Group, the owner of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, lost &#163;24m last year on botched currency trading as it tried to protect hedge-fund investments. The newspaper publisher, which is considering closing The Observer, the world&#8217;s oldest Sunday newspaper, was caught out by the dollar&#8217;s rapid rise against sterling which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M&amp;G&#8217;s Dobell blasts &#8216;selfish&#8217; hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/mgs-dobell-blasts-selfish-hedge-funds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; One of the most senior fund managers at Prudential has attacked hedge funds as selfish and devious and blasted derivatives as &#8220;the scourge of the modern age&#8221;. Tom Dobell, who manages the &#163;3 billion Recovery Fund for M&#38;G, the insurer&#8217;s asset management unit, made the remarks in letters sent this month to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge-Fund Guy Points Toward Z-Shaped Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Dear investor, our statutory obligations demand that we update you on how well we&#8217;ve taken care of your money here at Coin-Toss Investment Management. Attached to this missive is a picture illustrating our fund&#8217;s performance this year, showing how wonderfully our back- to-basics approach is working after the derivatives-inspired lunacy of recent years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mellon Capital readying multi-strat hedge fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Mellon Capital Management, which invests money for pension funds and others, plans to launch a new hedge fund in August, a top executive said on Tuesday. The new portfolio, which is slated to become the group&#8217;s flagship hedge fund offering, will invest in currencies, commodities, stocks, bonds and derivatives. &#34;This will be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECB&#8217;s Bini Smaghi wants hedge fund, inv bank regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; There should be regulation for areas which have previously been excluded from supervision such as hedge funds, investment banks and derivatives, European Central Bank Executive Board Member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi said on Friday. &#8216;There is no problem of over-regulation at the moment but there is a need to regulate areas that are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds crawl back to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are crawling back to life after a turbulent 2008 that has almost halved their assets, and fewer but stronger survivors are set to regain their leverage to chase bargains in a less competitive environment. Hedge funds, which manage their portfolios aggressively with various advanced strategies including derivatives to gain higher returns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex Hedge Fund Trader Vs. Ex Wife, High Powered Hide and Seek</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; In a bizarre hedge fund story sent to me by a reader, an ex JP Morgan Director and ex trader for hedge funds Tudor and Brevan Howard has been traced by his ex wife&#8217;s investigators to Singapore where he allegedly has done work for JP Morgan. According to the Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophe Derivatives Demand Surges as Storm Season Nears</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance Journal &#8211; Demand for disaster derivatives is surging as insurers seek alternatives to scarce reinsurance and expensive catastrophe bonds, with the forthcoming North Atlantic hurricane season likely to give a further boost. Prices are at record levels for Industry Loss Warranties (ILWs) and derivatives such as catastrophe futures, used by insurers to cover their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dwight Anderson To Open 2 New Ospraie Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/dwight-anderson-to-open-2-new-ospraie-hedge-funds.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/dwight-anderson-to-open-2-new-ospraie-hedge-funds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try again. This clich&#233; is the root of folly on Wall Street and in the hedge fund industry in general. Perfect example: The Ospraie Fund&#8217;s Dwight Anderson is set to start two new hedge funds in July. Okay, new hedge funds, what&#8217;s the big deal? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ospraie&#8217;s Anderson to Give Commodities Hedge Funds Another Try</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/ospraies-anderson-to-give-commodities-hedge-funds-another-try.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/ospraies-anderson-to-give-commodities-hedge-funds-another-try.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Dwight Anderson, the commodities investor who liquidated his main Ospraie Fund last year after losing 39 percent, is planning a comeback with two new hedge funds set to open July 1. The Ospraie Equity Fund will buy and sell stocks of commodity and basic-materials companies in industries such as chemicals, mining, paper and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Hedge Funds Face Regulatory Tsunami, Report Says</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/us-hedge-funds-face-regulatory-tsunami-report-says.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/us-hedge-funds-face-regulatory-tsunami-report-says.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; The biggest regulatory changes since the 1930s are bearing down on the U.S. securities and investment industry, and many firms are ill-prepared, according to a new study by research firm TowerGroup. From derivatives and hedge funds to capital standards and short selling, the range of issues &#8220;encompasses almost every line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stability can help boost alternative investments</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/stability-can-help-boost-alternative-investments.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business24-7 &#8211; Stability, and not necessarily an upward move by economies, would be enough to attract investors back to alternative investments such as hedge funds, says Dr Frank Gerhard of Barclays Capital. The crisis has made investors focus more on due diligence and, at the same time, turned attention back to fundamentals and to issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weavering Capital collapses over mystery trade</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/weavering-capital-collapses-over-mystery-trade.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/weavering-capital-collapses-over-mystery-trade.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Weavering Capital, one of London&#8217;s oldest hedge funds, was today in the hands of liquidators just a week after it discovered that its flagship fund&#8217;s main investment was a derivatives trade with an offshore company controlled by its founding chief executive. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditor and consultancy, confirmed this morning that it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummys View of the Global Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/dummys-view-of-the-global-crisis.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/dummys-view-of-the-global-crisis.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the string of problems created by hedge funds, derivatives, investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds, mortgage securities and hairy bank loans over these few years, it is becoming increasingly apparent that high flying investment managers and financial whiz kids are not as great as they seem in spite of their insistence in paying themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eiger Asset Management to launch four coffee-related funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/02/2009/eiger-asset-management-to-launch-four-coffee-related-funds.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/02/2009/eiger-asset-management-to-launch-four-coffee-related-funds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge Week.com &#8211; Eiger Asset Management is planning to launch four coffee-related funds, comprising two index tracker funds, a hedge fund and a vehicle investing in the physical commodity. Eiger is being assisted by London-based alternative investment consultancy firm Laven Partners. Eiger is to launch tracker funds, one long and one short, that will follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why hedge funds are attractive &#8211; and risky</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/why-hedge-funds-are-attractive-and-risky.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/why-hedge-funds-are-attractive-and-risky.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle &#8211; Hedge funds, historically an investment reserved for big-ticket investors, are seemingly like mutual funds in that they typically invest in stocks and bonds. They have the added glamour and allure, however, of taking significant risks and gambles with their investments. Hedge funds may take risks by purchasing derivatives, or they may bet [...]]]></description>
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