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		<title>Asia Genesis to Close Hedge Funds; Chua Seeks to Restore Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8216; Asia Genesis Asset Management Pte, whose Japan Macro Fund has outperformed peers, is closing down its two hedge funds and returning money to investors. &#8220;I need some time to recuperate from weak health,&#8221; founder Chua Soon Hock, 50, said in an e-mailed reply to queries from Bloomberg News. &#8220;In past years, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Falls Hard vs. Dollar as Stocks &amp; Commodities Sink, Faces &#8220;Definite Downside Risks&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BullionVault &#8211; The Gold Price fell sharply against a strong US Dollar on Monday morning, falling through what one Asian dealer called &#34;technical and psychological support at $942&#34; to record the lowest Gold Fix so far this month at $937.50 an ounce. Crude oil sank below $66 per barrel, while base metals and silver lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan July retail trust funds value hits 10-mth high</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The value of Japanese retail-targeted mutual funds rose to a 10-month high of 58.8 trillion yen ($613 billion) in July, lifted by inflows into international equities funds and strength in share prices, an industry body said on Thursday. It was the sixth straight month of increases in the value of publicly placed investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCI Loses More Than Face as Japan Says No to Foreigners Playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; It was a crisp autumn day in November 2005 when hedge fund manager John Ho entered the half- century-old Electric Power Development Co.&#8217;s headquarters in Tokyo, betting that Japan&#8217;s corporate attitudes were ripe for change. Ho, then director of Asia-Pacific investments at the Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Management UK LLP, also known as TCI, [...]]]></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>Asian hedge funds returned 1.79 pct in June -Eurekahedge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters India &#8211; Asian hedge funds were up a fourth straight month in June, rising an estimated 1.79 percent, on the strength of gains in Chinese and Japanese stocks, hedge-fund tracker Eurekahedge said. The positive returns in June, which is based on preliminary data, brought gains since the start of 2009 to 13.96 percent. Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-DKR Oasis Analyst Eechaute Plans Japan-Focused Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Frederic Eechaute, a former senior analyst at DKR Oasis Management Co. LP, will start a Japan- focused equity hedge fund that trades stocks using its own analyst database. Eechaute, who will split his time between Tokyo and Sydney, along with Stephen Good, who formerly worked in the Japanese equity sales department at Mizuho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribridge To Launch New Hedge Fund, Hires Former BofA Executive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASDAQ &#8211; Tribridge Investment Partners Ltd., a Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager, said Monday it will launch a new fund in August and hired John Liptak, former head of Bank of America Corp.&#8217;s Asia special situations group, to run it. The new fund will have a pan-Asia focus and seek to identify mispriced or undervalued [...]]]></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>Winton to Start Japan Fund, Hire H.K. Staff in Asian Expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winton Capital Management Ltd., the U.K. hedge fund with $12 billion in assets, will start a new fund in Japan and hire staff in Hong Kong as it expands when rivals such as Citadel Investment Group LLC retreat from Asia. The London-based firm is going to advise a new fund sold to Japanese retail investors [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Amsterdam &#8211; For Dutch pension fund ABP, Michael Jackson&#8217;s death could be good for business. The passing of the man called &#34;King of Pop&#34; last week has created a run on his music, which is partly owned by Dutch state pension fund ABP. It is the world&#8217;s third-largest state pension fund after Japan&#8217;s and [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Madoff Investors &#8216;Greedy&#8217;: Hendry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC &#8211; People who invested with Bernard Madoff were greedy and happy to accept high returns without probing too much in the way these were achieved, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica, told CNBC Tuesday. &#34;I&#8217;m sympathetic for people losing money but I think this pejorative term of being greedy still applies,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund registration backed</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/hedge-fund-registration-backed.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; A global regulatory body backed compulsory registration of hedge fund managers on Monday to restore investor confidence, saying the $1.3 trillion sector did not cause the credit crunch but may have amplified its effects. The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) represents regulators from over 100 countries, including the United States, Japan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REFILE-Activist funds ditch Japan, leave governance void</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Investor &#8211; The retreat of two high-profile activist funds from Japan underscores the difficulties such funds face in squeezing value from their investments and raises worries about lax corporate governance in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy. The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund (TCI) and Steel Partners have been scaling back since last year, joining a growing pool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flowering Tree to Grow Hedge Fund in ‘Fertile Environment’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Flowering Tree Investment Management Pte, set up by the co-founder of New York-based Sansar Capital Management LLC, plans to grow its Asian equities hedge fund by about 20 times its starting capital within the next two years. The Singapore-based fund made its first bets on rising and falling stocks in Asia outside Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s First Short-Biased Hedge Fund Bets Exporters Will Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Alphex Investments Co., the adviser to Japan&#8217;s first short-biased hedge fund, plans to sell exporters&#8217; shares, wagering they&#8217;ll fall on a rising yen and weak global economy, boosting the fund that started in March. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing right now is nothing more than a bear- market rally,&#8221; Ichiro Takamatsu, 44, chief executive officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCI Cuts $1 Billion of Japanese Short Stock Positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Management UK LLP, a $9.5 billion U.K. hedge fund, cut its short positions in Japanese stocks including Toshiba Corp. by almost $1 billion in less than two months, exchange filings show. The London-based fund, also known as TCI, had about $248 million worth of short positions in 12 Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steel Partners opposes bid for Aderans stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners said it has urged shareholders of loss-making wig maker Aderans Holdings to reject an offer by Japanese private equity fund Unison Capital to buy Aderans shares. Japan&#8217;s Aderans said last month it supported Unison Capital&#8217;s bid for at least a 35 percent stake in Aderans to replace top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World stocks head for 6th week of gains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; World stocks steadied on Friday but were still on track for a sixth consecutive week of gains, while the euro fell on worries about the region&#8217;s prospects. MSCI&#8216;s main world stock index was flat despite modest gains in Europe and a rebound in Japan. But the index was up 1.6 percent on 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>Obama to get taxpayers to help hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thinker &#8211; The credit system has broken down. Banks have cooled on lending (maybe because they are not sure if the Obama administration will force a cram down in the future that would result in their loans being worth much less than they thought?). But the system also relies on hedge funds to purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging markets set to perform well</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business24-7 &#8211; Middle East hedge fund investors expect emerging markets, the US and Asia (excluding Japan) will outperform in 2009 despite economic downturn, according to a survey conducted across the Mena region. The survey, conducted by an investment placement specialist Capintro Partners, said the family offices are allocating a larger percentage of their portfolio to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ginga Beats Japan Hedge Fund Rivals With Telecommunications Bet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ginga Service Sector Fund, the third-best performing Japan-focused hedge fund in 2008, held its ranking in January by investing only in the telecommunications and services companies. The 3.4 billion yen ($36 million) fund, advised by Tokyo- based Stats Investment Management Co., returned 0.7 percent last month, extending its 13 percent advance in 2008, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J-Power Seeks Long-Term Investors to Replace Hedge Fund TCI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The head of J-Power, Japan&#8217;s largest electricity wholesaler, wants to attract long-term investors to replace its biggest stakeholder, hedge fund TCI, which exited after seeking his ouster in a feud over corporate management. &#8220;Investors such as pension funds, which seek stable returns in this time of financial turmoil, may be one of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPIF says alternative investments need closer study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; Japan&#8217;s public pension fund, the world&#8217;s largest, said on Thursday it needs a deeper study of diversifying into alternative investments, such as hedge funds and real estate, after seeing the asset class hit by the financial crisis. Takahiro Kawase, president of the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), denied a media report last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kanetsu Will Close DragonHorse, Exit Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Kanetsu Asset Management Co. will liquidate hedge funds, including Japan&#8217;s best performer last year, as commodities trading shrinks, a company executive said. The Tokyo-based firm will shut DragonHorse, which according to data provider Eurekahedge Pte returned 27 percent in 2008, the highest among Japan-based hedge funds. Kanetsu Asset will also close two other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daiwa drops big fund plan after Blackstone talks fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Daiwa Securities Group Inc, Japan&#8217;s second-largest brokerage, said that it would drop its plans for a large private equity fund after talks with Blackstone fell through. Daiwa had been in talks with private equity firm Blackstone Group LP to form a fund targeting Asian companies, Daiwa Securities Chief Executive Shigeharu Suzuki told Reuters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market slump pounds Pa. pension funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia Inquirer &#8211; Pension funds for Pennsylvania state workers and schoolteachers lost more than $12 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30. And that&#8217;s not counting losses from hedge funds, real estate, private equity, and other hard-to-trace private investments &#8211; roughly half of the State Employees&#8217; Retirement System &#8211; that pension managers don&#8217;t plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackstone trims its Asia-focused fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Blackstone Group LP has cut the size of its planned Asia-focused hedge fund because the global financial crisis has led to redemptions, the Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the situation. Blackstone, which manages private equity, real estate and hedge funds, would cut the fund size to about $200 million from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Double Down on Hedge Funds as Returns Slide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Public pension funds in the U.S. are increasing bets on high-risk hedge funds and real estate in an attempt to fill deficits in retirement plans and make up for their worst performance in six years. New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is asking lawmakers to increase a cap limiting the amount of so- called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell to boost Asia property fund exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Singapore &#8211; U.S.-based Russell Investments, which manages over $211 billion (110 billion pounds) in assets, wants to boost its exposure to Asian real estate as it sees growing markets in China and India withstanding a global downturn. The company, which raises money from institutions such as pension funds and invests it with other fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JPMorgan plans $1 bln Asia property spree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; JPMorgan plans to invest more than $1 billion in Asian real estate over the next three years, hoping to fill a gap as Indian and Chinese developers crave funds and rival investors recoil from property markets. The investment bank, which has fared better than some Wall Street rivals because of smaller exposure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KKR Aims to Catch Blackstone With Offering, New Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg- Henry Kravis is taking KKR &#38; Co. public and moving into real estate and stock funds as he tries to catch up with Stephen Schwarzman&#8217;s Blackstone Group LP, the world&#8217;s largest private-equity firm. KKR, co-founded by Kravis in 1976, relied on leveraged buyouts for 95 percent of profit last year, compared with 29 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China-focused funds raise $12 bln in Q2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Shanghai- Ten new China-focused private equity funds raised $12 billion (six billion pounds) in the second quarter, but poor market conditions have forced foreign funds to delay exits of their investments through IPOs and secondary offerings, consultant firm Zero2IPO said on Thursday. The second-quarter figure is up 107.6 percent from the same period of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedrock Rolls Out Multi-Strat Fund of Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FINalternatives- Bedrock Alternative Asset Management in May launched its Global Diversified Fund, a fund of funds covering private equity, hedge funds, real estate and commodities, combined with traditional stock and bond investments. The fund will invest in a 15 to 25 underlying hedge fund managers, with exposure to event-driven, long/short equity, managed futures, global macro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>406 indicted in crackdown on mortgage fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ventura County Star- More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March, &#8212; including dozens in the last two days &#8212; in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud that stem from the country&#8217;s housing crisis. The FBI put the losses to home-owners and other borrowers who were victims in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-NFL player&#8217; suit to move ahead despite suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN Sports Illustrated- A former hedge fund manager&#8217;s suicide has no effect on a lawsuit filed by six former NFL players against the league and its players union over $20 million they say they lost in an investment scheme, an attorney for the plaintiffs said Monday. The lawsuit claims the union endorsed Kirk Wright&#8217;s services [...]]]></description>
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