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Reuters – A hedge fund exodus from London to Switzerland in the face of higher taxes and tougher EU rules is unlikely to occur this side of a British general election, although the industry pretender remains ready to pounce.
Eyeing a new lakeside life of lower taxes and softer rules, many fund managers have said they would leave London’s glitzy lights for good if the Labour Party’s plan for a new 50 percent top tax rate becomes reality.
Globe and Mail – When Salida Capital Corp. beat all other bidders in a charity auction last month to score lunch with Warren Buffett, the $1.68-million (U.S.) win sent a signal to Bay Street: Salida is back.
Salida, the once high-flying, resource-focused hedge fund manager known for its appetite for risk, became one of Canada’s high-profile victims of last year’s market meltdown when its flagship Multi Strategy Fund plunged 67 per cent and three of its hedge funds got locked up in the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy.
That was followed by a rapid exodus of key staffers and by dwindling assets under management.
Marketwatch – Mutual-fund shareholders are seeing at least one benefit from the credit freeze: bond managers are back in the trading action after years of playing second fiddle to hedge funds.
Bond-fund managers say the exodus of leveraged hedge funds from their market pushed out spreads on debt securities to historic levels — a dramatic change from the middle of the decade.
Marketwatch – Mutual-fund shareholders are seeing at least one benefit from the credit freeze: bond managers are back in the trading action after years of playing second fiddle to hedge funds.
Bond-fund managers say the exodus of leveraged hedge funds from their market pushed out spreads on debt securities to historic levels — a dramatic change from the middle of the decade.
Stuff – Hedge funds meeting for their annual get-together in Monaco this week are hoping recovering profits will help placate clients, after the industry was heavily culled and suffered its worst year on record.
An exodus of investors followed a year in which hedge funds saw performance losses of 19 percent, a stark contrast to a decade in which people scrambled to get access to an industry that claimed it could make money in any market.
Significantly, one entire session of the June 16-18 GAIM conference in the Mediterranean resort is titled "The Rise of Investor Power."
Reuters – Hedge funds meeting for their annual get-together in Monaco next week are hoping recovering profits will help placate clients, after the industry was heavily culled and suffered its worst year on record.
An exodus of investors followed a year in which hedge funds saw performance losses of 19 percent, a stark contrast to a decade in which people scrambled to get access to an industry that claimed it could make money in any market.
Significantly, one entire session of the June 16-18 GAIM conference in the Mediterranean resort is titled "The Rise of Investor Power."
