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		<title>Blackstone war chest eyes bank sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian &#8211; Blackstone Group posted a wider second-quarter loss, but results beat analysts&#8217; expectations as the private-equity giant reported positive returns and better fund-raising at its credit-oriented and funds-of-hedge-funds businesses. On a conference call with analysts and investors, chairman and chief Executive Stephen A. Schwarzman said that two-thirds of the companies in Blackstone&#8217;s private-equity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Och-Ziff funds gain in June, but assets fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a U.S. hedge fund giant banged up by last year&#8217;s market turmoil, said its funds continued their 2009 revival with June gains, although assets under management slipped once again. The New York firm estimated total assets fell by $800 million in June to $20.7 billion, continuing the contraction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appleby closes in on Dickinson Cruickshank merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lawyer &#8211; Offshore giant Appleby is to merge with Isle of Man firm Dickinson Cruickshank to create the world&#8217;s largest offshore firm in terms of partner numbers. The combined firm will have 73 partners and nine offices worldwide, including in Dubai and Zurich, where Appleby opened last year. It is the first major offshore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds buy up German TV firm&#8217;s debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent &#8211; Hedge funds Apollo and Octavian have been quietly building up a position in ProSieben, one of Europe&#8217;s biggest commercial broadcasters. The move could lead to a showdown with private equity owners Permira, the Damon Buffini-run giant, and Kohlberg Kravis &#38; Roberts (KKR). Lord Hollick, who was chief executive at former Daily Express owner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hermes wants more fund transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Pension fund manager Hermes has called for a shake-up of the hedge fund industry, demanding greater transparency and fee structures closer aligned to performance. The asset manager, which runs BT&#8217;s giant pension fund, said it wanted to set up an action committee to help drive through reforms on disclosure. &#34;I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds hiring IT contractors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eFinancialCareers UK &#8211; Man Group has been spending freely on technology over the last year, and is expected to continue to do so going into 2010. To carry out the new projects, it&#8217;s been hiring an ever-growing team of contractors, a tactic other hedge funds are also employing. Operating costs amounted to $275m in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish bank to repay $235M it withdrew from Madoff scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today &#8211; A Spanish banking giant that channeled $3 billion of its clients&#8217; funds to Bernard Madoff has agreed to repay more than $235 million it withdrew from the confessed Ponzi scheme architect in the months before the scam collapsed in December. Pending federal bankruptcy court approval, the deal announced Tuesday by a hedge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Advising US, BlackRock Thrives in Uncertain Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ledger &#8211; The financial crisis has ravaged many a Wall Street giant, but it has also produced a handful of winners. BlackRock, a money manager that is much admired but little known outside financial circles, is fast emerging as one of the nation&#8217;s financial powerhouses. BlackRock, which started in a one-room office 21 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HudBay stokes interest of Indian mining giant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; An Indian mining giant has quietly amassed a near 10-per-cent stake in HudBay Minerals Inc., HBM securing a major advantage over potential rival suitors for the Canadian zinc and copper producer that has hired advisers to explore the company&#8217;s strategic options. Documents filed in Ontario Superior Court show Lakomasko BV, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HudBay stokes interest of Indian mining giant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; An Indian mining giant has quietly amassed a near 10-per-cent stake in HudBay Minerals Inc., securing a major advantage over potential rival suitors for the Canadian zinc and copper producer that has hired advisers to explore the company&#8217;s strategic options. Documents filed in Ontario Superior Court show Lakomasko BV, a privately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US to work with Switzerland on tax secrecy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP &#8211; The United States and Switzerland will begin negotiations to amend their bilateral income tax treaty to provide for improved transparency, the US Treasury Department said Monday. The announcement came following Group of 20 pledges last week to clean up tax havens and fight tax fraud and as bilateral relations have been strained by [...]]]></description>
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