Monthly Archives: January 2012
Hedge Funds Feel the January Blues as Subscriptions Slip
Reuters – Hedge funds have started the new year with a bout of the January blues, as investors get their books in order to start afresh in 2012, after last year’s rollercoaster ride, data showed on Wednesday [Jan. 11]. The […]
Hedge Funds Ask SEC to Let Them Solicit Private Funds Without Registration
Bloomberg – The Managed Funds Association is urging U.S. regulators to remove restrictions on solicitation and advertising in private offerings to make it easier for hedge funds to raise money and promote their products. The Securities and Exchange Commission should amend its […]
Evergreen Eyes Close as Ex-Goldman Traders Top Hedge Funds
San Francisco Chronicle – Evergreen Capital Partners Ltd.’s Australian hedge fund, which gained 58 percent in its first 18 months by buying resource stocks and short-selling retailers, will close to outside investors in six to 12 months to remain focused […]
Hedge Fund Veteran Howard Eisen Joins Conifer Group
Sacramento Bee – The Conifer Group, LLC (Conifer), a leading provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services, today announced industry veteran Howard Eisen will join the Conifer Securities sales team as it expands its client base across […]
Analysis: The great hedge fund humbling of 2011
Reuters – Some of the best-known hedge fund managers have offered lots of excuses for underperforming the major stock market indexes last year, with many large funds posting double-digit losses. In letters to investors, managers pointed to things like Europe’s […]
Pluris Names Hedge Fund Valuation Specialist Vataha as Vice President
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC today announced that Kyle B. Vataha of Newport Beach, Calif., a nationally recognized expert in valuing alternative asset management firms, has joined the firm as Vice President. Vataha, who will open an […]
Al Gore, Sarah Palin and Dr. Robert Gates to Speak At The SkyBridge 2012 Hedge Fund SALT Conference
New York (HedgeCo.net) – $5.7 billion hedge fund firm, SkyBridge Capital, has announced that Vice President Al Gore, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates will serve as keynote speakers at the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT 2012) Conference May 8 to 11, […]
Red Kite Evangelicals Reap 47% on Copper Bet
Bloomberg – On a dark, drizzly November morning, Michael Farmer steps to the pulpit to deliver a stern message to fellow parishioners at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, an 800-year-old church in the shadow of the London Metal Exchange and in the heart of […]
Hedge funds lock horns with IMF on Greek debt
Reuters – Hedge funds are taking on the powerful International Monetary Fund over its plan to slash Greece’s towering debt burden as time runs out on the talks that could sway the future of Europe’s single currency. The funds have […]
Hedge Funds Sit Out Rally With Stock-Gain Bets Near ’09 Low
Bloomberg – Rallying stocks have done little to entice professional money managers back to U.S. equities. A gauge of hedge-fund bullishness measuring the proportion of bets that shares will rise climbed to 44.5 last week from 43.9 at the end […]
Exclusive: Hedge fund Velite nabs natgas crown from Arnold
Reuters – Move over, John Arnold: the U.S. natural gas market has a new hedge-fund king, operating as skillfully and mysteriously as the ex-Enron wunderkind who once wowed the trade. For three years in a row, Houston-based David Coolidge has […]
Hedge Fund Compensation Report Reveals a Drop in Bonuses
Nrw York (HedgeCo.net) – The 2012 Hedge Fund Compensation Report revealed that hedge fund managers anticipated an increase in base salary but a shortfall in year-end bonuses. The average reported cash compensation for 2011 was $311,000, just slightly higher than last year’s […]