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		<title>Barakett’s Atticus Fund Jumps Back Into Stocks, Filing Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Atticus Capital LP, the New York- based hedge-fund firm run by Timothy Barakett, reversed course in the second quarter, investing more than $3.5 billion in U.S.- listed stocks as equity markets recovered. Atticus bought $355 million in shares of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America Corp., a new position, according to a filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harbinger Capital Takes Position in Zapata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; In a 13D filing with the SEC, Harbinger Capital Partners has revealed a new position in Zapata Corporation due to activity on June 17th, 2009. This is a brand new position for the hedge fund and it now shows a 51.3% ownership stake with 9,888,684 shares. As defined in the 13D, Harbinger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lone Pine Reveals Smithfield Foods Holdings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; In a 13G filing made with the SEC due to activity on June 9th, 2009, Lone Pine Capital has disclosed a 7.7% ownership stake in Smithfield Foods (SFD). This is a brand new position for Stephen Mandel&#8217;s hedge fund and it now owns 11,116,850 shares. Lone Pine previously did not show a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel, SAC Capital Get Pick of Casualties as Carnage Worsens</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/citadel-sac-capital-get-pick-of-casualties-as-carnage-worsens.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Balyasny Asset Management LP recruited more than 30 money managers and analysts from competing hedge funds in the first eight months of the year, exceeding its total for all of 2007. &#8220;We have been aggressively looking for talent, and in a year like this, there are a lot more candidates out there,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel, SAC Capital Get Pick of Casualties as Carnage Worsens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Balyasny Asset Management LP recruited more than 30 money managers and analysts from competing hedge funds in the first eight months of the year, exceeding its total for all of 2007. &#8220;We have been aggressively looking for talent, and in a year like this, there are a lot more candidates out there,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Goldman Big Departs From Hedgie Halcylon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Post &#8211; Former Goldman Sachs exec Steve Mandis has left the $12 billion hedge fund Halcyon Asset Management &#8211; one of the oldest hedge funds on Wall Street, according to an investor letter. Mandis was vice chairman and chief investment officer at Halcyon Structured Asset Management LP, a lending subsidiary of Halcyon that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanley Shopkorn, Ex-Moore Equities Chief, to Start Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Stanley Shopkorn, a former head of equities trading at Louis Bacon&#8217;s Moore Capital Management LLC, plans to open a global stocks hedge fund, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Hilltop Park Fund LP, based in New York, is scheduled to start trading Oct. 1, said the person, who asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant hedge fund firm plans to spin off Raptor business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MarketWatch &#8211; James Pallotta, vice chairman and managing director of U.S. public equities at Tudor Investment Corp., is leaving the giant hedge fund firm and plans to launch the Raptor Global Funds unit he runs as a separate business, according to a letter Tudor sent to investors this week. Pallotta will spin off Raptor at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMP hedge fund makes solid debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; GMP Securities enjoyed a solid debut with its new and much-scrutinized hedge fund. GMP Diversified Alpha Fund, a multi-strategy fund launched last year by the investment dealer, published its first set of performance numbers Thursday as part of the parent income trust&#8217;s financial results. The fund, which is run in part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leopard Capital Competes to Invest in Cambodia Acleda Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/leopard-capital-competes-to-invest-in-cambodia-acleda-bank.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Leopard Capital, which is setting up a $100 million private-equity fund to invest in Cambodia, said it&#8217;s competing to buy a stake in Acleda Bank Plc, the largest Cambodian bank. &#8220;It&#8217;s the best-run bank, it&#8217;s clean and it has very good margins,&#8221; Thomas Hugger, executive director at Leopard Capital, said in an interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedges turn to business of rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times- Even as politicians and regulators accuse hedge fund short-sellers of trying to bring down banks in Britain, the US and Australia, top hedge managers are providing rescue capital to prop up the ailing corporate world. The latest bail-out backed by hedge funds is the &#163;4.5bn cash raising by Britain&#8217;s Barclays, where five big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borges named chairman of hedge fund rules board</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2008/borges-named-chairman-of-hedge-fund-rules-board.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters- Antonio Borges, a former senior banker at Goldman Sachs, has been appointed chairman of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the custodian of the voluntary standards scheme devised by leading members of the sector. Borges, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International until February and a former dean of the European business school Insead and [...]]]></description>
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