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		<title>MENA Hedge Funds Boost Assets 10-fold to $1.17b</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zawya &#8211; Hedge funds focusing exclusively on the Middle East and North Africa have seen a 10-fold increase in assets under management over the past five years, with futher gains of about 17 per cent through the first half of 2009, according to Hedge Fund Research, a provider of hedge fund industry data. The Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional stock markets outperform hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business24-7 &#8211; Six months after their worst drawdown on record, regional stock markets are outperforming the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)-focused hedge funds, suggesting markets are once again warming up to equity participation. According to Emirates Business research, Mena markets have posted gains of 9.73 per cent on average, beating the 10 region-focused hedge [...]]]></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>Only 32% Mena-based SWFs invest in region-focused hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/only-32-mena-based-swfs-invest-in-region-focused-hedge-funds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zawya.com &#8211; Although nearly half of all sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are based in the Middle East and North Africa region, only 32 per cent of them invest in Mena-focussed hedge funds, new data has revealed. Almost all of the SWFs known to be investing in hedge funds pursue a global investment strategy. North America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newedge, Amiri Capital to launch Islamic hedge FoF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Amiri Capital, the Islamic asset manager backed by investment firm Olivant, said on Monday it has teamed up with broker Newedge to launch the first Islamic fund of long/short hedge funds marketed in the Middle East. The partnership with Newedge &#8212; itself a joint venture between Calyon and Societe Generale &#8212; allows Amiri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Icelandic Volcano Erupts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle East Online &#8211; Can a Hedge-Fund Island Lose Its Shirt and Gain Its Soul? In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United States might grow so dangerous that martial law would have to be declared. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Challenges in a Changing World</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/hedge-funds-challenges-in-a-changing-world.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Bawaba &#8211; Never before in its short history was the hedge funds community confronted with the challenges nor the pressures it is facing today, following a six-year boom,with Madoff&#8217;s scandal coming as the icing on the cake following the US financial crisis. With investors already becoming more demanding with regards to fees, transparency and regulation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds &#8216;must reorganise&#8217; to avoid Obama-era taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/hedge-funds-must-reorganise-to-avoid-obama-era-taxes.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Intelligence Middle East&#160; &#8211; International Tax lawyers are urging private-equity and hedge-fund clients to restructure their partnerships so they can sidestep the higher taxes that president-elect Barack Obama has vowed to impose on their profits. Obama&#8217;s promise to revive a failed 2007 bill forcing executives to pay rates of 35% or more instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Englander&#8217;s Millennium Funds May Lose $1 Billion to Withdrawals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Millennium Partners LP, the $13.5 billion hedge-fund firm run by Israel Englander, plans to return $1 billion to investors who asked for their cash back by year-end, according to two people familiar with the matter. The redemptions, equal to 7.4 percent of client assets, would have been higher except the New York-based firm [...]]]></description>
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