Monthly Archives: January 2006

Forbes – So you want to be a millionaire. OK, maybe you already are one. But are you still investing in hedge funds? As an investor, last year certainly wasn’t a year to remember. Hedge funds notched an average 8.03% […]

TheStreet.com – Usually asset managers or banks buy hedge funds, not the other way around. An exception is the recent decision by $10 billion hedge fund manager Angelo Gordon & Co. to buy New York equity investment firm ForstmannLeff Associates, […]

Yahoo! News – Hedge funds are trying to persuade New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart to raise his NZ$2.50-a-share takeover offer for Carter Holt Harvey (CAH.NZ), The Dominion Post reported Thursday,citing a source. The source told the newspaper that hedge funds […]

MarketWatch – Perry Capital said on Wednesday that it could be sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the $10 billion hedge-fund firm’s trading in shares of drugmaker Mylan Laboratories Inc. SEC staff recently sent a so-called Wells notice […]

Scotsman – The world’s largest listed hedge fund firm Man Group  said on Thursday its funds under management had risen to $45.8 billion (25.9 billion pounds) from $44.4 billion at the end of September. Sales in the three months to […]

Hedge fund manager William Ackman said he plans to unveil a revised proposal to split up McDonald’s Corp. next week, setting off what’s expected to be a battle to win support from the restaurantchain’s franchisees. Mr. Ackman, whose Pershing Square […]

Economic Times – Hedge funds, private partnerships catering to wealthy investors and institutions, rose 9.2% on average in ’05, lifted by a stock-market rally during the second half, according to Hedge Fund Research. The returns were slightly ahead of the […]

Reuters – Investors should sell their U.S. assets, especially the dollar against the yen, as America’s economic and political power is likely to decline this year, a hedge fund manager told Reuters. David Murrin, chief investment officer at Emergent Asset […]

Globe and Mail – As the managing partner of one of North America’s larger hedge funds, John Paulson typically shuns the spotlight, preferring to quietly exploit arbitrage opportunities to keep aheadof the investing pack. When the choice is a public […]

Business Times Malaysia – Stock markets made investors nearly three times more than the average hedge fund last year, according to French business school Edhec. Hedge fund returns averaged 3.75 per cent last year compared with 13.74 per cent for […]

Globe and Mail – Global fund managers believe equities will have a tougher time in 2006, lagging the double-digit gains many major global stock markets enjoyed in 2005, according to a new study. The Mercer Investment Consulting survey also found […]