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		<title>Falcone&#8217;s Harbinger selling 20 million Calpine shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MarketWatch &#8211; Harbinger Capital, a big hedge-fund firm run by Philip Falcone, is selling 20 million shares of power company Calpine Corp. Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I Ltd. is selling the stock in a public secondary offering underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Calpine said in a statement late Tuesday. Harbinger plans to grant Morgan Stanley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Home Entertainment Like a Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC &#8211; Cramer sees both of these as good companies in a great growth industry, but using a trick out of his old hedge fund playbook, he suggests the strategy of a paired trade: buying the best stock in the business while at the same time betting against a second stock in the same industry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VW drops as hedge funds move in</title>
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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>Paulson Hedge Fund Buys Banks That Lost Value in Credit Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; John Paulson, the hedge-fund manager whose wagers against the U.S. housing market helped him earn an estimated $2.5 billion last year, bought Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock in the second quarter, while adding to stakes in gold companies. His firm, Paulson and Co., bought 168 million shares of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorting not good bet for hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gulf News &#8211; Short-selling, one of the few tactics that made money for hedge funds in 2008, has become a risky bet as prospects for equities have improved, while getting hold of stock to sell is harder as lenders shun weak funds. Some hedge funds have already changed tactics and are simply buying cheap stocks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Group Advances as Pace of Redemptions by Investors Declines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Man Group Plc, the largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, rose as much as 4.5 percent in London trading after redemptions by institutional investors slowed. Pension plans, endowments and money managers pulled $1.8 billion on July 1, half the $3.6 billion of redemptions three months earlier, London-based Man Group said in a statement today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors eye safer funds, firms must adjust-survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN Money &#8211; Money managers must offer new portfolios and keep cutting costs to survive in an era where frightened investors prefer safer fixed-income funds to stock and hedge funds, a report released Monday showed. Badly bruised by last year&#8217;s financial crisis when tumbling markets and investor redemptions shrank global assets 18 percent to $48.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund&#8217;s Bid for Sotheby&#8217;s Shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barron &#8211; Shares of auctioneer&#160;Sotheby&#8217;s have rebounded on hopes for a recovery in the art market, although the economic picture is still difficult to frame. However, although investors have bid up the shares in recent months, the stock still has new buyers. On June 18 Atticus Capital disclosed that it now owns 3.6 million shares, [...]]]></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>Could hedge funds be the Holy Grail for weary investors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herald Tribune &#8211; Investors are always searching for the &#34;Holy Grail&#34; of investing; that is, investments with high returns, low risk and little correlation to the returns of the broad stock and bond markets. Some investors believe that they have found it in the category of investments labeled as hedge funds. A hedge fund is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC lawyers probed for insider trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Two U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement lawyers are under investigation by federal criminal authorities for allegedly using insider information to trade stocks, a report by the SEC&#8217;s internal watchdog said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office are conducting an investigation of possible criminal and civil violations. The report alleges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Top-Rated Stocks Hedge Funds Are Buying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motley Fool &#8211; Hedge funds &#8212; private investment partnerships for wealthy individuals and institutions &#8212; are thought to be managed by well-informed, talented investors. Where are they placing their stock bets in this highly volatile market? And does the investing community agree? Let&#8217;s see what CAPS has to say on the matter. The Fool&#8217;s community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fund Manager Wins, and Moves On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; William A. Ackman makes a lot of noise for someone in the hush-hush business of hedge funds. He harangues executives, goads boards, talks this stock up and that one down &#8212; all in search of profit. On Thursday, someone listened. After a campaign by Mr. Ackman that had lasted for months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund makes £13m short-selling Aviva</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent &#8211; Lansdowne Partners, the hedge fund, has made almost &#163;13m from a short position in Aviva &#8211; and stands to make more if the beleaguered insurer announces a rights issue. The London-based investor has had a net short position on 0.27 per cent of Aviva shares since 13 February. The stock has since tumbled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ackmans Pershing Square Target Fund Fell 33.3% in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; William Ackman&#8217;s hedge fund that invests solely in Target Corp. fell 33.3 percent in February, bringing the loss since inception to 93 percent, according to an e-mail sent to investors. The decline in Pershing Square IV fund was more than three times that of Target shares in February. Ackman made his bet using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDYchannel.com &#8211; Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company&#8217;s directors and largest investors says. &#34;We&#8217;re still focusing on growing as much as possible,&#34; says Peter Thiel in an interview with BusinessWeek. In Facebook&#8217;s first public confirmation of the talks, Thiel said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund in talks with Target on board seats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press &#8211; Activist hedge fund manager William Ackman is in talks with Target Corp. about naming potential directors to the discount retailer&#8217;s board, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday. Target shares gained 61 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $28.43 in aftermarket electronic trading, after gaining 23 cents to close the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curb on hedge funds likely as EU leaders back reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent &#8211; European leaders backed major reform of hedge funds yesterday as part of structural changes to help the world&#8217;s financial institutions emerge stronger from the global economic crisis. Short-selling by the secretive hedge fund industry &#8212; selling borrowed stock in the anticipation that the prices will fall &#8212; was blamed by some politicians for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman says partners hit by margin calls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Goldman Sachs Group Inc said several partners must cover margin calls triggered by the depressed value of Goldman stock and many of the firm&#8217;s hedge funds, but the bank denied it is lending money to its executives. &#34;Partners can, and many do, have margin accounts at the firm,&#34; Goldman spokesman Lucas van Praag [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HK&#8217;s Bank of East Asia posts first loss in four decades</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Bank of East Asia, Hong Kong&#8217;s fifth-largest lender, posted a bigger-than-expected second-half loss and slashed its dividend, after selling a debt portfolio at a steep loss. The bank (BEA), which reported its first half-year loss since the 1960s, warned of a tough market environment this year but said on Tuesday it had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invest In The New York Times?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Billionaire Carlos Slim Helu believes enough in The New York Times that he loaned it $250 million for an eventual 17% stake. The Forbes.com Investor Team says don&#8217;t copy him. Last summer in the Turnaround Newsletter, George Putnam III called out the New York Times Co. as a big name that had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Lets Investors Withdraw What Is Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; In a move that could force similar changes at other money-losing hedge funds, the well-known fund manager William A. Ackman is cutting his fees and allowing investors to take what is left of their money from one of the funds he manages. Mr. Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital Management, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. accuses three in insider trading scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; A hedge fund manager, a brokerage trader and a financial adviser were charged on Thursday with insider trading in the stock of supermarket chain Albertsons Inc, reaping total profits of about $7.5 million, according to court documents. The criminal complaints were filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against Joseph Contorinis, a former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assets For Hedge-Fund Launches Fell In &#8217;08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolute Return &#8211; Assets for new hedge-fund launches fell &#34;significantly&#34; in the U.S. last year as hedge funds had their worst-ever year of performance, according to hedge-fund magazine Absolute Return. &#34;With these results, it&#8217;s no surprise that 2008 is being dubbed hedge funds&#8217; worst year,&#34; deputy editor Carolyn Sargent said. &#34;Turbulent markets, big losses, fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson Hedge Fund Asks Dow to Close Rohm &amp; Haas Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Paulson &#38; Co., the hedge fund run by billionaire John Paulson, urged Dow Chemical Co. to slash its dividend, sell new stock and issue bonds to pay for the stalled $15.4 billion takeover of Rohm &#38; Haas Co. Dow should tap its committed $13 billion bridge loan and $4 billion of equity financing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastbourne Proposes Amylin Directors, Backs Icahn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund Eastbourne Capital Management LLC nominated five directors to the board of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is supporting a slate put forward by investor Carl Icahn, after it &#8220;lost confidence&#8221; in leadership of the maker of the Byetta diabetes drug. Eastbourne, which owns 12.5 percent of San Diego-based Amylin, said in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds may have missed out on bank share slump</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds may have missed out on sharp falls in banks&#8217; shares in recent days because few rushed in after the UK&#8217;s ban on short selling financial stocks expired on Friday, data shows. According to figures from research firm Data Explorers, the amount of stock out on loan &#8212; a good indication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Seeks Continental AG Chairman&#8217;s Ouster, FTD Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; A hedge fund led by Frank Scheunert wants to oust Continental AG Chairman Hubertus von Gruenberg, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing the investor. Scheunert, who controls about 5 percent of the tiremaker&#8217;s stock, said Continental&#8217;s board is &#8220;destroying shareholder value,&#8221; according to the newspaper. Read Complete Article]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds suffer losses but beat markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; Hedge funds suffered their worst full-year loss ever in 2008 but their decline was still less steep than the 38 percent drop for the average stock mutual fund, data released on Thursday showed. The average hedge fund lost 19.2 percent last year according to data from New York-based consultants the Hennessee Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anglo American PLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SilkInvest &#8211; Anglo American PLC, which represents about 10% of the South African index, has been one of the worst performers among the world&#8217;s major diversified mining companies. It has now addressed issues with its under-performing management team. Chief executive officer, Cynthia Carroll, is focusing on cost savings which should help. Read Complete Article]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago hedge fund buys 5.7 percent stake in ADC</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/01/2009/chicago-hedge-fund-buys-57-percent-stake-in-adc.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bizjournals.com &#8211; Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund, has spent $33 million to buy a 5.7 percent stake in ADC Telecommunications Inc. The deal makes Citadel the second-largest holder of Eden Prairie-based ADC&#8217;s stock and sent the company&#8217;s shares up 4 percent Friday. Lord Abbett &#38; Co. remains ADC&#8217;s largest institutional shareholder, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third-Quarter 2008 Asset Manager M&amp;A Activity Climbs Amid Financial Crisis, According to Jefferies Putnam Lovell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8211; Deals involving asset managers rose in the July to September 2008 period, with the global credit crunch as the backdrop for a jump in divestitures to almost 40% of total sales, up from 23% a year earlier, according to Jefferies Putnam Lovell, the investment banking group of Jefferies &#38; Company, Inc. focused [...]]]></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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