Monthly Archives: January 2006

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 ahead of the investing pack. When the choice is a public fight or a […]

NEW hedge funds continue to open their doors for business, despite the lack of regulation in the hedge fund industry. According to the Nedgroup Hedge Fund Review, three new hedge funds entered the market in the last quarter of last […]

The £360m (€525.5m) Bexley Council Pension Fund will launch a tendering process in the next week for its first private equity and hedge fund mandates amounting to 5% of the scheme’s assets. The two fund of fund mandates will be […]

As Hedge Funds have grown, they have maintained relatively lean administrative structures. 3rd party technology has been deployed to make fund management, operational and administrative processes more efficient. In particular, technology has been extensively deployed to connect Hedge Fund managers […]

Hedge fund managers, some of the City’s highest paid traders, face slashed performance fees as the sector loses money and investors, a leading academic said yesterday. Narayan Naik, the director of the London Business School’s Hedge Fund Centre, said overcrowding […]

TheStreet.com – Hedge fund activists are becoming more involved in the life of companies where they own a stake. When the company is a closed-end fund, some go as far as recommending changes in the investment strategy. The latest example […]

MADRID (AFX) – At least three Endesa SA hedge fund shareholders with a total of around 5.5 pct of the company are prepared seek the removal the ‘poison pill’ clause from the utility’s statutes, La Gaceta de los Negocios reported, […]

Slate – This season’s stock-market mystery is: The Case of the Declining Volatility. Volatility—the degree to which stocks move in any particular direction—is strangely absent on Wall Street. The DowJones Industrial Average closed the year down 0.61 percent, the smallest […]

Hedge fund performance last year was less than stellar, but managers, in the aggregate, were still able to outperform the broad market averages. That’s what they’re paid for — although those pay packages will leave investors with less. The CSFB/Tremont […]

Hedge fund activists are becoming more involved in the life of companies where they own a stake. When the company is a closed-end fund, some go as far as recommending changes in the investment strategy. The latest example is David […]

Hedge fund managers are less optimistic that U.S. equities will rise in January compared to previous recent months, a survey of 20 hedge fund managers released on Tuesday found. The monthly Greenwich-Van Advisors LLC survey of hedge fund investor sentiment […]

Bloomberg – Gold prices may extend gains for a sixth year in 2006 as hedge funds buy the precious metal to diversify from stocks, bonds and currencies. The price of bullion may rise 18 percent to average $525 an ounce, […]