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		<title>Sweden mulls EU summit ahead of G20 meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish Wire &#8211; Sweden, which holds the rotating EU presidency, is consulting European capitals and &#8220;most of them are positive&#8221; about the idea, said Roberta Alenius, spokeswoman for Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. &#8220;The prime minister wants a summit if it is really needed, and if it gives a common position before the Pittsburgh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokio Marine to Cut Hedge-Fund Investments This Year After Rout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan&#8217;s biggest casualty insurer, plans to trim hedge-fund investments and shift more of its portfolio in the industry to strategies such as macro and long-short equity funds. Tokio Marine &#38; Nichido Fire Insurance Co., a unit of Tokio Marine Holdings with 8.4 trillion yen ($90 billion) in assets, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Policy 2009-12: Insurance of int&#8217;l buyers, hedge funds to be provided</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Times &#8211; (Islamabad) The government intends to establish hedge fund under Trade Policy 2009-12 to keep the cost of capital, production cost and also account for inflation so that export orders remain within the projected cost. In order to attract international investors in a time of uncertain security, the Trade Policy would also offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meiji Yasuda, With $244 Billion, to Cut Hedge Funds Holdings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., with 23 trillion yen ($244 billion) in assets, said it will cut its investments in hedge funds this year as it switches to investments with steadier returns. Japan&#8217;s third-largest life insurer will reduce its allocation to the industry by &#8220;several tens of billions of yen,&#8221; from 64.6 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinness-backed hedge firm debuts alternatives fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters India &#8211; Hedge fund firm 47 Degrees North has launched a portfolio that will invest in funds in areas such as electricity, transportation and volatility arbitrage as it seeks fresh ways to sidestep falls in traditional markets. The firm, which is part-owned by Iveagh, the investment office of the super-rich Guinness family, said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Standard &#8211; Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an extra $63 billion into their coffers from pension funds and [...]]]></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>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>Aviva Agrees Terms Of Offer To Policyholders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOXBusiness &#8211; U.K. life insurance and pensions provider Aviva said Wednesday that it&#8217;s agreed with a policyholder advocate that a reattribution offer can be put to policyholders. The offer gives policyholders in two with-profits funds the right to choose whether to receive a payment now or keep their right to uncertain future payouts. Read Complete [...]]]></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>UK&#8217;s Lloyd&#8217;s plans bond buyback at big discount</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian.co.uk &#8211; Lloyd&#8217;s of London, the specialist insurance market, has offered to buy back up to 100 million pounds ($145 million) worth of bonds at a hefty discount. The offer applies to fixed/floating rate subordinated notes due 2024 and subordinated notes due 2025 as well as perpetual subordinated capital securities. The bonds are all rated [...]]]></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>Meiji Yasuda to cut unhedged foreign bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Investor &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co said on Monday it planned to cut its unhedged foreign bond holdings while increasing its hedged foreign bond holdings this business year to offset currency risks. The nation&#8217;s third-largest life insurer by assets also said it has been experimenting with trades in yen swap rates since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bair pitches hedge funds and pensions on US bank plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, is in New York on Friday to meet with hedge funds, private equity funds and pension groups to promote the government&#8217;s plan to cleanse banks&#8217; balance sheets of toxic assets, a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday. Bair has said she would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Interview on &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217; / regarding hedge funds and AIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOXNews &#8211; MR. LENO: Tell people what happened. I know people have been over it, just &#8211; MR. OBAMA: Well, look, here&#8217;s what happened. You&#8217;ve got a company, AIG, which used to be just a regular, old insurance company. Then they insured a whole bunch of stuff and they were very profitable and it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MBIA Debt-Guarantee Split Sparks Hedge Fund Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; MBIA&#8217;s split of its bond- insurance business was challenged by hedge funds alleging the move hurts owners of about $240 billion of debt while benefiting stock investors, executives and some policyholders. The reorganization, in which MBIA stripped $5.4 billion of assets and its U.S. municipal business from a unit that now mainly insures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund makes £13m short-selling Aviva</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent &#8211; Lansdowne Partners, the hedge fund, has made almost &#163;13m from a short position in Aviva &#8211; and stands to make more if the beleaguered insurer announces a rights issue. The London-based investor has had a net short position on 0.27 per cent of Aviva shares since 13 February. The stock has since tumbled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CI will co-operate in Fairfax suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; A long-running legal dispute between Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and a group of hedge funds has produced a sideshow involving the chief executive officer of one of Canada&#8217;s biggest mutual fund companies. Fairfax, a Toronto-based insurance conglomerate, wants Bill Holland, the chief of CI Financial Corp., to testify in connection with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funds expect 2009 growth in life insurance trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Fund managers who buy U.S. life insurance policies to cash in the death benefits have predicted a bumper year in 2009 as investors seek uncorrelated alternatives to mainstream markets. Supply is also is expected to increase as more individuals, stung by tumbling investment portfolios, could sell their policies at discounted prices. Managers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hedge Fund Gambles on Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek &#8211; The market for exotic securities hasn&#8217;t entirely gone away. It&#8217;s just gone underground&#8212;-six feet under, to be precise. Hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management is plunging into life settlements&#8212;a market in which speculators buy-up unwanted life insurance policies from wealthy individuals looking to score some quick cash. The $10 billion New York-based fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battered Wall St tops Obama inaugural donors-study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Monitor &#8211; Wall Street may be bruised and battered, but it still donated more money than any other U.S. industry to President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural festivities on Tuesday, a study has found. The Center for Responsive Politics said executives of finance, insurance and real estate companies and their family members gave $7.1 million to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America Receives $138 Billion of Rescue Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. bank by assets, received a $138 billion emergency lifeline from the government to support its acquisition of Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. and prevent the global financial crisis from deepening. The U.S. will invest $20 billion in Bank of America and guarantee $118 billion of assets &#8220;as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2008, Global Hedge Fund Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Hedge funds started the second quarter of 2008 on a strong note as global stock markets recovered, according to Singapore-based hedge fund research company Eurekahedge. &#34;The Fed&#8217;s aggressive response to the weakness across credit markets and the slowing of economic growth in the U.S. went some way in improving investor sentiment [...]]]></description>
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