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		<title>Sovereign funds join forces for strategic investment</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2009/sovereign-funds-join-forces-for-strategic-investment-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; An increasing number of sovereign wealth funds are working in concert to make joint strategic investments in order to reduce risks and maximize returns, which could provide a stabilizing force in financial markets. State-owned funds from China, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait are among those which have recently signed agreements to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KBC says stops BlueCrest fund leverage facility</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/kbc-says-stops-bluecrest-fund-leverage-facility.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Belgian bank KBC said it had terminated a $219 million leverage facility it provided to BlueCrest Specialty Asset Finance, a fund run by UK hedge funds manager BlueCrest Capital Management. It was not immediately clear how much of the facility KBC will be able to retrieve. Read Complete Article]]></description>
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		<title>KBC says stops BlueCrest fund leverage facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Belgian bank KBC said it had terminated a $219 million leverage facility it provided to BlueCrest Specialty Asset Finance, a fund run by UK hedge funds manager BlueCrest Capital Management. It was not immediately clear how much of the facility KBC will be able to retrieve. &#34;We continue to work with KBC with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEB fund arm plans credit hedge fund</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/seb-fund-arm-plans-credit-hedge-fund.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The fund management arm of Swedish banking group SEB is planning to launch a global credit hedge fund in the autumn to take advantage of mis-pricing opportunities in the credit markets. Peter Branner, global head of investment management at SEB, said the fund would use leverage and take long and short positions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds crawl back to life</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/hedge-funds-crawl-back-to-life.html</link>
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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>Hedge fund leverage is returning</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/hedge-fund-leverage-is-returning.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds have begun to raise leverage levels again in recent weeks as prime brokers and other lenders become bolder about extending credit in more stable markets, a lawyer specializing in the sector said on Tuesday. Henry Bregstein, attorney at law at Katten Muchin Rosenman, said that some strategies, such as multi-strategy funds and funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK has uphill struggle over EU fund rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[guardian.co.uk &#8211; Investment companies and private equity firms suspect that they have been caught up in a directive whose real aim was hedge funds largely because it is so difficult to define hedge funds. &#160; The Group of 20 leading world economies agreed in April that hedge funds above a certain size should be subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU laws seen driving hedge funds from UK</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2009/eu-laws-seen-driving-hedge-funds-from-uk.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Some hedge funds will leave the UK if draft new European law is not changed, said one manager present at a meeting this week with the Treasury, in which the industry expressed grave doubts about the rules. Proposed new EU rules to force disclosure of leveraged positions and give regulators more control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund manager Singer wants limits on leverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alibaba News Channel &#8211; Aggressive government action can hurt the market, but regulators should clamp down on leverage among banks and investors to prevent another credit crisis, veteran hedge fund manager Paul Singer said at a conference. Singer said the current &#34;anti-capitalist&#34; fervor, inspired by last year&#8217;s market meltdown and the ongoing recession, will likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why private equity regulation may be unnecessary</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/why-private-equity-regulation-may-be-unnecessary.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GrowthBusiness.co.uk &#8211; Its proposals would, if enacted, put an additional burden on both funds and the companies in which they invest. They have been greeted with dismay in the City, but what would they mean for the industry? The central notion is that fund managers should be subject to &#8216;harmonised&#8217; governance standards across the EU, [...]]]></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>Leaders at G20 Vow to Restore International Markets, Keep a Closer Watch on Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/leaders-at-g20-vow-to-restore-international-markets-keep-a-closer-watch-on-hedge-funds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge funds can expect to be kept on a tighter leash in the near future, as leaders from all over the world met at the G20 summit in London to discuss the next steps towards remedying the worst financial crisis in six decades. Agreeing that lax regulation on all levels helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Graphical Look at Hedge Fund Leverage</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/a-graphical-look-at-hedge-fund-leverage.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Financial Services Authority (FSA) recently found that hedge fund leverage was nearly extinct (for now). In what is billed by the FT as the &#8220;only authoritative data on the opaque industry&#8221;, the FSA found that the average hedge fund had leverage of 1.15x, down from about 2x a year ago and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Falls in Hedge Fund Borrowing</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/big-falls-in-hedge-fund-borrowing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times &#8211; Hedge funds cut their borrowing to almost nothing in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to research by the City watchdog. Data compiled by the Financial Services Authority show that leverage fell to just 1.15 times hedge fund net assets in October, down from almost twice a year earlier. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European hedgies eye lending cap as regulation looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; European hedge funds believe capping the amount banks can lend them will be more effective in preventing systemic risks than direct regulation, but this is unlikely to satisfy politicians eager for tougher rules. The funds are often based in far-away and loosely regulated off-shore centres, so a U.S.-style system to limit lending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds to survive crisis, says hedge fund exec Borges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The hedge fund industry can survive the credit crisis despite the recent damage to the sector, the chairman of the Hedge Funds Standards Body told the CESR conference on Monday. &#34;These people (hedge funds) will possibly prove to be more resilient than people thought,&#34; said Antonio Borges, chairman of the Hedge Funds Standards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBS sees 35 percent drop in hedge fund assets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Global assets of hedge funds may drop to $1.2 trillion by the end of the first quarter, down 35 percent from 2007 as the number of managers decline and funds rely less on strategies that use leverage, a UBS executive said on Tuesday. &#34;We are gonna see a reduction in hedge fund assets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eveillard and Englander Shun Leverage, Beat Rivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg -&#160;Jean-Marie Eveillard, who beat 99 percent of rival equity fund managers last year by hoarding cash instead of borrowing it, is loading up on Japanese insurers and Hong Kong developers. &#8220;Leverage eliminates your staying power,&#8221; said Eveillard, whose $16.8 billion First Eagle Global Fund beat the Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s 500 Index every year this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year to Change Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markets Media News &#8211; The New Year is likely to see several important shifts in alternative investing, according to Don Steinbrugge, managing partner of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third-party marketing firm for hedge funds. Steinbrugge said during the fourth quarter of 2008, investor demand started to shift toward market neutral strategies, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For investors, now what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis Star Tribune &#8211; Like most market watchers, last year&#8217;s participants in the Star Tribune Investor Roundtable failed to predict that 2008 would be a year of stomach-churning stock market declines, failed financial institutions, multibillion-dollar bailouts and credit markets as frozen as a Minnesota lake in January. &#34;I think everybody in the room knew there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds gloomy on oil, CFTC data show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MarketWatch &#8211; For the first time in 17 months, hedge funds in July made more bets on oil prices falling than rising, according to the latest government data. &#160; Short positions from noncommercial investors, hedge funds and other large investors that don&#8217;t actually take delivery of oil, surpassed long positions in July for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VCM Preps Trio of Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FINalternatives- London-based VCM Fund Management is prepping a trio of hedge funds to invest in alternative energy, macro futures and emerging hedge fund managers. &#160;The firm next month will launch two hedge funds in partnership with K2 Capital, the alternative energy hedge fund shop founded by former Vantage&#160;Derivatives head trader Andrew Swaine.&#160;First up, the firm [...]]]></description>
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