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		<title>Hedge Fund Elliott Management&#8217;s Market Commentary</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/08/2009/hedge-fund-elliott-managements-market-commentary.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Very in-depth and analytical commentary out of Elliott Management in their recent second quarter 2009 letter to investors. The hedge fund has penned a 24 page letter covering topics of risk management, the automotive industry, regulation, distressed assets, arbitrage opportunities and much, much more. We highly recommend taking the time to peruse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hedge Funds Are Up to</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; This is the latest edition in a new series of posts we&#8217;re doing here entitled, &#8216;hedge fund news summaries.&#8217; And, as as the title obviously states, the goal is to give you the quick hits of everything that is happening in hedge fund land. So far, reader response has been very positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Draws Hedge Fund Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2009/india-draws-hedge-fund-attention.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; During the past week, almost 15 percent of investors have expressed a specific interest in India-focused funds. When compared with the first week of the second quarter, this percentage is almost double. In a recent article in Hedge Funds India (see, &#8220;Hedge Fund Managers Cautious: Focus on China and India,&#8221; June 22, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Hedge Funds (An Analytic Perspective)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective by Andrew W. Lo is a highly technical and intellectual analysis of hedge funds. Mr. Lo has filled his book with many advanced, detailed concepts and statistics about the hedge fund industry. The book is so technical that it reminded me of one of my old college [...]]]></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>Hedge Fund Cantillon Closing: Converting to Long Only Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; William von Mueffling&#8217;s Cantillon Capital Management will be closing down the hedge fund portion of its business. The fund will wind down its positions except for $1 billion worth of long positions as it reverts to a long-only shop. We&#8217;ve not covered Cantillon in our portfolio tracking series before, but von Mueffling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IndexIQ Launches Second Hedge Fund Replication ETF: MCRO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; The second hedge fund replication ETF from IndexIQ began trading on Tuesday (6/09/09). According to the press release, the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (MCRO) seeks to deliver risk-adjusted return characteristics similar to macro and emerging-market style hedge funds. IndexIQ maintains indexes representing seven separate hedge fund strategies. Their first ETF, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grail to Launch Active Single-Manager ETFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Grail Advisors, LLC, the investment advisor that launched the Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value Fund (GVT) last month, has filed with the SEC to launch four additional ETFs. Grail notes that these four funds will be the first actively-managed ETFs to use a single-manager approach. Unlike traditional ETFs, managers of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Legends: Lee Ainslie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Continuing our series of hedge fund profiles and biographies, we turn our attention now to Lee Ainslie of Maverick Capital. We thought this transition was appropriate given how we just yesterday initiated our profile series with coverage of hedge fund legend Julian Robertson of Tiger Management. (We also covered Robertson&#8217;s big inflation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson &amp; Co Hedge Fund Files 13G on anglogold Ashanti</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; While John Paulson&#8217;s position in AngloGold Ashanti (AU) is no secret, his hedge fund has just filed a 13G with the SEC with regard to the position. Paulson &#38; Co has disclosed a 12.1% ownership stake in AngloGold Ashanti due to activity on May 20th, 2009, with the bulk of the position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Hedge Fund Industry Corporate Governance</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/improving-hedge-fund-industry-corporate-governance.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; I saw today a very interesting article in the FT about the discussion going on at the SEC about a rule allowing US investors to nominate company directors. Companies at present nominate their own directors. Shareholders have the right to vote, but not to nominate any directors, except through a difficult process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dwight Anderson To Open 2 New Ospraie Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try again. This clich&#233; is the root of folly on Wall Street and in the hedge fund industry in general. Perfect example: The Ospraie Fund&#8217;s Dwight Anderson is set to start two new hedge funds in July. Okay, new hedge funds, what&#8217;s the big deal? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Solar-Focused Hedge Funds Revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/top-solar-focused-hedge-funds-revealed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/top-solar-focused-hedge-funds-revealed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; HedgeTracker.com recently released its list of Top Solar-Focused Hedge Funds. The funds selected for the list had the greatest percentage of their US equity assets under management invested in US-listed Solar Stocks. As of 12/31/08, the top funds had between 7.9% and 21% of their assets invested in the solar sector. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Is the New Hedge Fund Strategy ETF Doing?</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/how-is-the-new-hedge-fund-strategy-etf-doing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; The innovators were out with guns blasting as they introduced an ETF that acts like a hedge fund. How has it been doing since the March 25 launch? This new ETF, established by Index IQ&#160; analyzes publicly available hedge fund performance data and then tries to replicate returns utilizing ETFs and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Not as Weak as Media Portrays</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/hedge-funds-not-as-weak-as-media-portrays.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/05/2009/hedge-funds-not-as-weak-as-media-portrays.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; For the last few months, the media has portrayed the hedge fund industry as in desperate need to hang on to as much capital as possible. Hedge fund limited partners have purportedly been lining up demanding breaks on fees and access to capital in the future &#8212; and getting them. The truth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Biden Associated with a Hedge Fund Scandal?</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/is-biden-associated-with-a-hedge-fund-scandal.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/is-biden-associated-with-a-hedge-fund-scandal.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Zero Hedge is always happy to discover something rotten in the state of capital markets. We are even happier when others dig independently and come up with their own startling conclusions. Last night, we were very happy. John Hempton, who writes the insightful blog Bronte Capital, has done some amazing dot connecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Pension Funds the New Venture Capitalists?</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/are-pension-funds-the-new-venture-capitalists.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/are-pension-funds-the-new-venture-capitalists.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; According to &#34;Calpers Weighs Expanding Own Hedge-Fund Investments&#34; by Jenny Strasburg and Craig Karmin (Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2009), the giant California pension fund may be the first stop for fledgling hedge fund managers who seek start-up resources. Described as a way to have &#34;more control over its money,&#34; incubating hedgies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangible Assets: Why Now&#8217;s the Time to Buy</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/tangible-assets-why-nows-the-time-to-buy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/04/2009/tangible-assets-why-nows-the-time-to-buy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Usually when Wall Street talks about hard assets, they&#8217;re talking about precious metals or commodities, things you can touch or feel or consume. But hard assets can mean other things &#8211; things that bring pleasure like art, vintage cars or rare stamps. Let&#8217;s call them &#8216;real&#8217; assets&#8217; or &#8216;stable assets.&#8217; So what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citadel&#8217;s New Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/citadels-new-hedge-funds.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/citadels-new-hedge-funds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Ken Griffin&#8217;s Citadel has plans to roll out a few more funds, even after Citadel&#8217;s flagship funds had a rough year in 2008. One will focus on currencies and interest rates, one will focus on stocks, and another will focus on convertible bonds. Citadel is trying to roll out lower fee funds [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/03/2009/a-graphical-look-at-hedge-fund-leverage.html#comments</comments>
		<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>Hedge Funds Not Alone in Defending Short-Selling Secrecy</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/hedge-funds-not-alone-in-defending-short-selling-secrecy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/hedge-funds-not-alone-in-defending-short-selling-secrecy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; The debate over short selling often pits traditional &#8220;long-only&#8221; managers against the upstart alternatives: hedge funds. But as this report in yesterday&#8217;s FT points out, the lines between &#8220;traditional&#8221; and &#8220;alternative&#8221; are blurring quickly. The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has been an ardent defender of the hedge fund industry against what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds, Oil Prices and Resulting Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/hedge-funds-oil-prices-and-resulting-recession.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/hedge-funds-oil-prices-and-resulting-recession.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; In 1997, some observers feared an impending global recession as a result of the headwinds stemming from the Asian financial crisis. However, within two years, those fears had dissipated and were replaced with new concerns of irrational exuberance. In contrast, the U.S. economic downturn beginning in 2008 initially appeared to be relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The (Bullish) Case for Hedge Funds</title>
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		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/the-bullish-case-for-hedge-funds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; The one group of investors that&#8217;s been vilified more than any other by the business press and government officials alike in 2008? Hedge fund managers. After years of rapid growth in terms of both assets and numbers of funds in operation, the hedge fund industry has taken a PR black eye this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Tracking: Barry Rosenstein&#8217;s Jana Partners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking Alpha &#8211; Jana was recently ranked 79th in Alpha&#8217;s Hedge Fund Rankings. Jana was founded in 2001 and typically employs activist, market neutral, and long/short equity strategies in public equity markets. Rosenstein received his B.S. from Lehigh University and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Jana has [...]]]></description>
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