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		<title>Northern Trust Named Best Overall Hedge Fund Administrator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Northern Trust has been named the Best Overall Hedge Fund Administrator by HFMWeek in the magazine&#8217;s inaugural U.S. Service Provider Awards. The awards recognize companies that have outperformed their peers during 2008-2009 and demonstrated financial progress, growth and genuine innovation. &#8220;Northern Trust was recognized for the strength of its service offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korea Beral shares rally on Icahn M&amp;A hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2009/11522.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Shares in Korea Beral soared more than 11 percent after a unit controlled by activist investor Carl Icahn raised its stake in the car parts maker, fanning speculation about a possible unsolicited takeover bid. F-M International Ltd, which belongs to auto parts maker Federal-Mogul, told South Korean regulators in a disclosure on Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel fund files $470 mln claim against Lehman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund Citadel Investment Group claims it is owed $470.5 million on derivatives contracts it held with Lehman Brothers, according to a claim filed in a New York bankruptcy court last week. Citadel, which manages around $12 billion in assets, claims it is owed the money in its Citadel Equity Fund. The filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard seeks to manage more money internally: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Harvard University&#8217;s multibillion dollar endowment is adopting a strategy of selling off some holdings in hedge funds, private-equity firms and other money managers to bring more money under the control of internal investing staff over the next few years, the Wall Street Journal said. Jane Mendillo, head of Harvard endowment, told the paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSBC to launch first ETF in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe&#8217;s biggest bank, is to unveil plans to enter into the European exchange traded fund (ETF) market with its first launch, the Financial Times said on Monday. &#8221;We believe our future is linked to indexation and ETFs and not just active management,&#8221; Farley Thomas, global head of wholesale distribution at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stock rally is “dash for trash”: hedge manager Bullman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Nick Bullman, who told Reuters he has this week placed bets on falling share prices, is concerned that government stimulus packages have not revived bank lending as much as hoped and that conditions remain as tough for companies as they did last year. &#34;The rally has been a &#8216;dash for trash&#8217; based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo FX volume falls as hedge funds leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Foreign exchange trading volume in Japan has fallen 16 percent this year after many hedge funds closed out investments during the global financial crisis, and Tokyo&#8217;s turnover in spot trading now lags behind Singapore. But steady turnover in FX swaps has helped Tokyo remain ahead of Singapore, its key rival as Asia&#8217;s dominant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors eye top startups as IPO market awakens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Investors, encouraged by a growing number of acquisitions and public floats in the past few months, are keeping a close eye on a coterie of promising startups in Silicon Valley. An informal poll of venture capitalists and others pointed to six privately held companies as the ripest for acquisition or readiness to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds build up short bets on VW again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Hedge funds have increased their bets on a fall in voting shares in Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker Volkswagen, according to data on Tuesday, despite the heavy losses suffered by such funds last year. Hedge funds shorting VW were caught out in October when VW shares more than quadrupled after Porsche announced it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed can backfire on hedge fund seeders: Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Early-stage investors in hedge funds should not be too greedy when negotiating with start-ups or it may hit their own investment, warns Man Investments, which this week agreed a short-term deal with an Asian start-up fund. Net outflows of $300 billion between October and June, and the closure of the seeding operations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Confirms Criminal Cases Against UBS Clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information. U.S. prosecutors gave their first official confirmation of the initial number of criminal investigations in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereign funds join forces for strategic investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +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>VW drops as hedge funds move in</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2009/vw-drops-as-hedge-funds-move-in.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Blogs &#8211; Volkswagen ordinary shares are down today after yesterday&#8217;s report of increased short positions. Stock out on loan, a good indication of shorting, has doubled over the past month to 2 pct of total issuance, according to figures from Dataexplorers. When the freefloat is only roughly 10 pct, then this is a significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors fret as Eden Rock fund falls</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2009/investors-fret-as-eden-rock-fund-falls.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Eden Rock Structured Finance has seen its value drop further in 2009, leaving some investors saying they are worried they may get back little of their money in the hedge fund, which is due to be wound up after losses last year. Lack of foreign exchange hedging pummelled the fund&#8217;s asset values by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors eye top startups as IPO market awakens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Investors, encouraged by a growing number of acquisitions and public floats in the past few months, are keeping a close eye on a coterie of promising startups in Silicon Valley. An informal poll of venture capitalists and others pointed to six privately held companies as the ripest for acquisition or readiness to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NewRiver revives suspended IPO at fraction of value</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Opportunistic property investment firm NewRiver Retail said on Monday it would list in September with a capitalisation of 25 million pounds, two months after suspending a planned 250 million pounds float. NewRiver expects its shares to be admitted to London&#8217;s Alternative Investment Market on September 1, it said in a statement. The shares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. pay czar says he can &#8220;claw back&#8221; exec compensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration&#8217;s pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and &#34;binding&#34; authority over executive compensation, including the ability to &#34;claw back&#34; money already paid, and he is weighing how and whether to use that power. Feinberg told Reuters that Citigroup Inc included the contract of energy trader Andrew Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuomo likely to file suit against Schwab: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, probing illegal marketing and sales of auction rate securities (ARS), is likely to file a lawsuit on Monday against Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW.O) for civil fraud, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. As a part of the lawsuit, Cuomo will likely present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed orders CIT to submit capital plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The U.S. Federal Reserve has ordered CIT Group Inc, the cash-strapped corporate lender struggling to avoid bankruptcy, to submit a plan for raising capital and meeting debt obligations within 15 days. The order from the powerful regulator comes as CIT, which on Monday again warned it may seek bankruptcy protection if debt restructuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. agencies fine Amaranth hedge fund $15 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Amaranth Advisors, the largest collapsed hedge fund in history, has been ordered to pay $15 million in civil fines for attempting to manipulate natural gas markets, federal agencies said on Wednesday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it settled charges against Amaranth and the fund has been ordered to pay a $7.5 [...]]]></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>UBS names Sclater to head Singapore prime broking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; UBS has named Alastair Sclater to the new post of head of its Singapore prime brokerage, as the Swiss bank aims to build that business in Asia&#8217;s second-biggest centre for hedge funds. Singapore, which competes with rival Asian financial centre Hong Kong, has attracted asset managers, private banks and hedge funds in recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks, commods drag European stocks lower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; European shares closed lower on Tuesday in response to disappointing U.S. economic data, with banking and commodity stocks weighing the most on the main index. &#8221;We have had a couple of macro figures which did not please the market. The U.S. labour costs and productivity figures are worrying &#8230; they simply mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe buyout firms eye IPOs as stock mkts thaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; European private equity firms are keen to start bringing their best-performing portfolio companies to market, encouraged by early successes on the other side of the Atlantic. Last week KKR successfully listed semiconductor business Avago Technologies Ltd and is considering listing a number of other companies as markets warm to new arrivals. &#8221;It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thames River plans two credit funds, US foray</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Thames River Capital is hoping to launch two investment grade credit strategies later this year and is looking at how best to target the U.S. institutional market, chief executive Charlie Porter told Reuters. The independent fund house, which manages $11.5 billion (6.9 billion pounds) in traditional long-only and hedge-fund-style products, has been adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thames River plans two credit funds, US foray</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Thames River Capital is hoping to launch two investment grade credit strategies later this year and is looking at how best to target the U.S. institutional market, chief executive Charlie Porter told Reuters. The independent fund house, which manages $11.5 billion (6.9 billion pounds) in traditional long-only and hedge-fund-style products, has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freddie Mac reports first profit in two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Freddie Mac, the second largest provider of U.S. home mortgage funding, on Friday posted its first quarterly profit in two years as gains from hedges and a one-time accounting change offset still-lofty credit losses. For the first quarter in four, Freddie Mac said it would not need a capital injection from the Treasury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds gain 2.42 percent in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds posted more gains last month, providing fresh evidence that the $1.4 trillion industry is recovering after last year&#8217;s heavy losses and record redemptions. The average hedge fund gained 2.42 percent in July after having inched up 0.13 percent in June, data released on Friday by performance and flows tracking group Hedge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprott profit sags as equity rise hits hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Quarterly profit at asset manager Sprott Inc was down by half as some hedge funds were hurt by rallying stock prices, while the company said opportunities still exist on the long side of the market. Eric Sprott, who is president and chief executive of Sprott Inc and a consummate Bay Street bear, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railways pension invests 65 million pounds in hedge fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The UK Railways Pension Schemes, one of the UK&#8217;s largest plans, has invested 65 million pounds in London-based asset manager Goodhart Partners&#8217; global long-short equity fund of hedge funds. Railpen Investments, the fund manager of the industry-wide scheme with assets of over 15 billion pounds, has some 8 percent of its assets in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Management hires two from hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Harvard Management Co, which invests the Ivy League school&#8217;s multibillion dollar endowment, hired two investment managers away from two prominent hedge funds, the university said on Wednesday. Emil Dabora, a senior managing director at Caxton Associates, will join as an equity portfolio manager while Michele Toscani, now at Fortress Investment Group, will join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortress Investment loss narrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Fortress Investment Group LLC, one of the few publicly traded U.S. hedge fund groups, reported a narrower quarterly loss on surprisingly strong revenue Wednesday, and forecast improved demand for its portfolios in coming quarters. Fortress executives said several funds delivered respectable returns in the first half the year, and they expect demand to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel To Return $250M To Clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund firm Citadel Investment Group will return millions to clients who asked to exit last year, but were locked in when its flagship funds lost more than half their value during the financial crisis. The Chicago-based firm, which invests $12 billion, informed clients on Tuesday it plans to give back $250 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCA To Invest $60M In WestSpring HF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Global fund of hedge funds firm FRM Capital Advisors (FCA) said on Tuesday it will invest up to $60 million in New York-based asset manager WestSpring&#8217;s first fund. Specialist hedge fund seeder FCA said the investment is part of a strategic tie up with WestSpring, which is scheduled to launch the fund in [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters India &#8211; Global fund of hedge funds firm FRM Capital Advisors said on Tuesday it will invest up to $60 million in New York-based asset manager WestSpring&#8217;s first fund. Specialist hedge fund seeder FCA said the investment is part of a strategic tie up with WestSpring, which is scheduled to launch the fund in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riding a green tide: Matthew Goldstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HSBC&#8217;s Maldonado blends science with art</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; HSBC&#8217;s Bill Maldonado is a man who loves to mix science with art &#8212; be that in running the Halbis hedge fund business, riding his high-powered Ducati motorbike on a race track or piloting a light aircraft. An Oxford doctor in laser physics who trod the well-worn path from academia to high finance, [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HSBC fund avoids directional bets in choppy markets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; HSBC Halbis fund manager Jim Dunsford is favouring trades exploiting price discrepancies, rather than big bets on market movements, because he believes markets are still in unknown territory. Dunsford manages the 100 million euro (85 million pound) Halbis Global Macro fund, which uses hedge fund-style techniques to try and make money in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More European hedge funds to launch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Fundraising by new European hedge funds may be picking up, according to an industry survey, after hitting a record low in a first half of the year overshadowed by the Madoff scandal. The survey, released on Monday by data group EuroHedge, shows $2.09 billion (1.26 billion pounds) was raised in new funds in [...]]]></description>
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