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		<title>SEC Staff May Have Neglected Red Flags in Hedge Fund Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has launched a probe into his own agency after it surfaced that complaints made to employees regarding the possible misconduct of Bernard Madoff were never investigated. Saying that specific allegations had been made to certain members of the SEC staff since at least 1999, Cox expressed his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duff Puts Plans on Hold as Hedge Funds Suffer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; Duff Capital Advisors has recently laid off dozens of its employees and is holding off on its plans to raise as much as $1.5 billion just eight months after the hedge fund firm began business, according to people briefed on the actions. The Greenwich, Conn.-based firm was started in March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Biggest Economies In World Economic Summit Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The leaders of the world&#8217;s 20 biggest economies will hold an historic meeting Saturday in a bid to head off the threat of a protracted global recession and forge a new world financial order. Called together less than two months ago by US President George W Bush, the emergency summit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wave&#8217; of credit crunch cases set to emerge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online UK &#8211; Litigation departments at the City&#8217;s leading law firms have grown significantly busier in recent weeks as investors turn to legal action to recover losses suffered as a result of the financial crisis. Although lawyers have been predicting an upturn in litigation since the credit crunch began last summer, that has yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Central Bank of Bahrain Joins Hedge Fund Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The Central Bank of Bahrain will be participating in the Hedge Funds Review, Middle East Summit&#160;in Bahrain on November 11-12, 2008. &#34;As the funds industry continues to gather pace in the global arena, the CBB is determined to maintain its regulatory precedence in setting up the necessary initiatives to enable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman may be set to post first quarterly loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Goldman Sachs could post its first ever quarterly loss as a public company in December, as market turmoil weighs on revenue for investment banking businesses and forces asset writedowns. One Wall Street analyst, Glenn Schorr at UBS, predicted a loss for the bank on Friday. The potential for a quarterly loss, combined with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settling down</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/10/2008/settling-down.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of Malta &#8211; The situation in the international financial markets, although still displaying signs of uncertainty, seems to be settling down. Governments in the major economies, US, UK, Germany, France and Italy, no longer seem to be chasing fairies (or bad witches!), but appear to have got ahead of the situation. The money markets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barney Frank Wields Clout to Curb Private Equity, Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; U.S. Representative Barney Frank is walking through Statuary Hall in the Capitol, a portrait of rumples and wrinkles. His left shirttail hangs out over his belt. Reporters and photographers are hounding him. Cameras are whirring. Questions are being shouted. &#8220;How&#8217;s it going?&#8221; one reporter shouts. &#8220;If you let me get in, I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition Becomes Fierce for Financial Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Employment offers in financial services fell by 11% in September compared to 6 months ago, according to Powerchex Limited, a pre-employment screening firm for financial institutions. Research by Powerchex showed that Investment Banks made the biggest cutback with 52% less jobs being offered in September compared to 6 months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe and others bolster banks to fight crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Nations from Europe to Australia rushed out plans on Sunday to shore up their banks, trying to halt a markets crash with pledges to back lending, buy stakes in financial institutions and take other emergency steps.if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['Yl9NCdG_Rvc-']=&#8217;&#038;U=13fiorehq%2fN%3dYl9NCdG_Rvc-%2fC%3d632663.12996380.13209191.6227634%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4577807%2fV%3d1&#8242;;  European leaders meeting in Paris said their line of attack would help halt the chaos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe&#160;- Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the wild swings in the markets, raising concern that some may not survive. Even before the Bush administration proposed its vast bailout for financial institutions, the hedge funds &#8211; those secretive, sometimes volatile investment vehicles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubts Increase on Korea Hedge Fund Deregulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek &#8211; Some participants in South Korea&#8217;s nascent alternative-investment market have grown pessimistic over the ability of incoming legislation to support the development of an onshore hedge funds industry. The Capital Markets Consolidation Act will become effective in February. It is a sweeping attempt to give Korea a securities law akin to those in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank looks ahead to the next step</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; US Representative Barney Frank yesterday staked out the next battlefront in the economic crisis gripping the world: more regulation of hedge funds, investment banks, and other financial institutions. Frank, who heads the House Financial Services Committee, blamed a lack of strict oversight for the failures of Wall Street investment banks such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts differ on effect of short-selling ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today &#8211; Markets braced for Wednesday night&#8217;s scheduled expiration of the ban on short sales of more than 900 financial stocks, as investment analysts and advisers gave differing predictions on the potential impact. The emergency ban is set to expire just before midnight, 13 trading days after the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds plead with US SEC to let short ban expire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Lobbyists for the $2 trillion hedge fund industry made a last ditch effort Wednesday to convince U.S. securities regulators to let an emergency order prohibiting short selling in more than 950 financial firms expire Thursday. &#34;The orders have not prevented price declines of financial institutions, volatility in the securities of these firms, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$700 Billion Rescue?  Not All Republicans Are on Board with Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The $700 billion rescue plan proposed by the Treasury and backed by President Bush seems to be greeted with disdain by republicans and democrats alike.&#160; After excruciatingly long hearings and even an emergency meeting with the two presidential candidates, an agreement was still not reached as to how the rescue will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Hoard $600 Billion in Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minyanville.com &#8211; While they&#8217;re not deviously plotting the demise of the worlds&#8217; most powerful financial institutions, hedge funds are loading up on another popular trade: Cash. According to the Financial Times, Citigroup estimates hedge funds have recently squirreled away as much as $600 billion in cash, of which $100 billion is held in money market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds shy from Bush&#8217;s Wall St. bailout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are unlikely to be among financial institutions clamoring to unload their bad debts under a proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan, the chief of the funds&#8217; lobbying group said on Tuesday. &#34;I think it&#8217;s unlikely that they would include us and I think it&#8217;s unlikely that we would ask to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe &#8211; Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the wild swings in the markets, raising concern that some may not survive. Even before the Bush administration proposed its vast bailout for financial institutions, the hedge funds &#8211; those secretive, sometimes volatile investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Fastens Its Seatbelt, Preparing for This Weeks Ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; Frazzled traders and money managers spent an angst-filled weekend struggling to fathom the sweeping bailout the Bush administration proposed for financial institutions in the United States and what it will mean for the world&#8217;s markets. At big banks, staff members rushed to update trading records before the opening bell sounded on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Mayfair hedge funds play fair by short-selling HBOS shares?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Why did HBOS need to be rescued by Lloyds TSB? Where should the finger of blame point? For many, the answer is clear &#8211; Mayfair. The streets of London W1 house some of the world&#8217;s biggest hedge funds, which now stand accused of bringing HBOS and other financial institutions to their knees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds TSB Group: Financials soar after FSA bans short selling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proactive Investors UK &#8211; The top thirty gainers for the London Stock Exchange (&#8216;LSE&#8217;) read out like a roll call for the British and Irish financial industry, after the Financial Services Authority (&#8216;FSA&#8217;) announced late last night that it was imposing a temporary ban on short selling financial stocks.&#160; Groups with short positions over 0.25% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short-sellers have banks worried</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Herald Tribune &#8211; In May, David Einhorn, an outspoken hedge fund manager, took the microphone at a large industry gathering and laid out his case against the investment bank Lehman&#160;Brothers. The firm, he told the crowd, had used &#34;accounting ingenuity&#34; to avoid large write-downs and remained tainted by bad commercial real estate investments. Einhorn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubts Increase on Korea Hedge Fund Deregulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek &#8211; Some participants in South Korea&#8217;s nascent alternative-investment market have grown pessimistic over the ability of incoming legislation to support the development of an onshore hedge funds industry. The Capital Markets Consolidation Act will become effective in February. It is a sweeping attempt to give Korea a securities law akin to those in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund Paulson to weigh buying bank stocks: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSN MoneyCentral &#8211; Paulson &#38; Co, a prominent New York hedge fund, will weigh buying shares or convertible bonds in banks and other financial institutions that need capital, the Financial Times reported on its website on Sunday. John Paulson, its founder, remained bearish on the economy and the financial sector, but would consider taking positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merrill Pushing Bad Debt for Petty Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Merrill Lynch is still hoping to strike a deal in which Korea Asset Management Corp. would purchase a significant amount of their bad debt.&#160; Talks have been stagnant because of recent disputes over prices, but some say those debts could sell for under $200 million.&#160; &#34;We have been seeking to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEOs Launch Web Site To Protect Short Sellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#8211; When the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an emergency order last month protecting the stocks of the country&#8217;s largest financial institutions against a form of short selling, three businessmen saw an opportunity. Harvey Pitt, SEC chairman from 2001 to 2003 and chief executive of District-based global consulting firm Kalorama Partners, teamed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UBS Writes Down Another Subprime-Related $6 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Writedowns from major banks have reached the $500 billion mark, only one year after the subprime fallout forced mortgage-backed securities to plummet in value.&#160; And it&#8217;s not over.&#160; Some economists estimate that number will ascend upwards to $2 trillion by the time all the damage is done.&#160; UBS, the European bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Capitalizing on Beaten Down Mortgage Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Foreclosed properties present an opportunity, to some, of finding an otherwise unattainable home at a deeply discounted rate.&#160; For hedge funds, foreclosures could mean massive returns in the near future.&#160; That&#8217;s why dozens of hedge funds are quietly building their stake in the decimated U.S. mortgage market.&#160; According to a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Platform To Expand Research Team</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2008/hedge-fund-platform-to-expand-research-team.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Alternative investment platform, Altegris Investments, has plans to expand their research team under the leadership of Mr. Allen Cheng, an accomplished hedge fund investment professional with extensive industry experience. Cheng joins Altegris as Managing Director, Research and Investments, and will be a member of the Altegris Investment Committee, with responsibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds do the Singapore sling</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/hedge-funds-do-the-singapore-sling.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FT Alphaville- New figures from Singapore&#8217;s central bank bear out the (abundant) anecdotal evidence of the quickening exodus of Asia-focused hedge funds out of Japan and elsewhere and into Singapore. Reuters reports that assets managed by fund managers in Singapore grew 32 per cent to S$1,173bn ($862bn) last year, driven by a doubling in assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson hedge fund now looks to buy banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent- The man who made a personal $3.7bn (&#163;1.85bn) fortune by predicting the credit crisis is hoping to make another killing by helping to prop up financial companies brought to the brink of ruin by the chaos in the debt markets. John Paulson, who went from being an obscure Manhattan hedge fund manager to one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson Wants a Say in Hedge Fund Breakdowns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson outlined a plan yesterday that may give some power to the U.S. government when hedge funds come to the end of the road. Paulson said that in the event of trouble, he wanted &#8220;&#34;additional powers to manage the resolution, or wind-down, of large non-depository financial institutions, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson &amp; Co. To Launch New Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; John Paulson, the infamous hedge fund manager turned billionaire who bet brilliantly against the housing market, will start a new fund later this year according to a report published on Bloomberg.com. The new hedge fund will provide capital to financial institutions who have suffered losses due to mortgage writedowns.&#160; It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke Outlines Plans to Stabilize Economy, Expand Fed&#8217;s Authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; In an effort to stabilize U.S financial markets and prevent further turmoil in the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested expanding its control and authority over our country&#8217;s financial firms. Bernanke spoke at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. conference regarding the improvement of mortgage lending yesterday, where he explained they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anheuser-Busch Fires Back at InBev, Files Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch is suing InBev after declaring that their &#8220;bargain price&#8221; offer of $65 a share is illegal.&#160; Anheuser-Busch accuses InBev of using &#8220;deceptive conduct&#8221; to try to win control of the company.&#160;&#160; InBev recently filed a consent solicitation statement with regulators in an attempt to take over Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s board.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stalled!  CSX vs. the Hedge Funds will Continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) -The much anticipated annual meeting of railroad operator CSX took an odd turn when results of Board elections were kept from the media and CSX head Michael Ward abruptly ended the meeting. The elections were a subject of great debate, after months of pressure brought on by hedge funds TCI and 3G [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman may raise capital from Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters- Lehman Brothers almost struck a deal with Korean financial institutions as part of raising $6 billion in capital, and may yet arrange one by the end of the year, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. South Korean institutions viewed as potential partners for Lehman include Korea Development Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US official says credit crunch easing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Channel 8- A U.S. Treasury official said Monday the global credit crunch is gradually calming following efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.Clay Lowery, assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury, said the Fed and other central banks have coordinated their actions to protect the financial system from possible disruptions [...]]]></description>
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