Monthly Archives: February 2005

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Eze Castle Integration, Inc., has announced the introduction of its latest Internet based disaster recovery solution for hedge fund managers and otherinvestment managers. The new product, called vSite, an acronym for {Virtual Site} �provides […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Growing number of Japanese institutions are showing greater willingness and interest in hedge funds, according to Nikko Asset Management’s alternativeinvestment division. Such renewed interest was necessitated by the desire to achieve investment returns in […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Everest Capital Ltd., has launched a new hedge fund in Sydney, with the assistance from Australian investment and advisory firm, Babcock & Brown Ltd. Thenew fund was launched with an initial public offering for […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Fidelity Investments is set to offer two new products, which the company is not calling hedge funds, but the new strategies, Fidelity Active Strategy funds, orFAST will be utilizing hedge fund like strategies for […]

Hardel Capital has announced the launching of its new hedge fund. The Hardel Arbitrage Fund will exploit short-term arbitrage opportunities in equity options according to statements released by thefirm. The Fund is designed to produce annual returns in the range […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – New research conducted by Roger Ibbotson, the Yale University finance professor, and hedge fund partner and chairman of the Chicago-based research firm, hasshown that hedge fund risks are actually lower than those of the […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – A growing number of traditional mutual fund companies now offer hedge fund type portfolios according to news reports. Such change in tactics resulted from manyyears of poor market performance by mutual fund companies, following […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – New research conducted by Merrill Lynch shows that hedge fund managers trading equities concentrated their trading activities on blue-chip and growth stocksduring the month of February 2005. Merrill also showed that hedge funds now […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Burton Malkiel, professor of economics at Princeton University told the ICBI conference in Geneva that he is worried about future hedge fund returns. Malkielbelieves that hedge fund indexes, which track the global hedge fund […]

New York-based currency manager FX Concepts announced today that it is launching a new fund based on its FX Volatility Program. The Volatility Program is an outgrowth of two specific non-directional strategies that FX Concepts has been operating since March […]

(www.hedgeco.net) – Although there are many offshore jurisdictions that cater to hedge funds, the differences between them can be hard to discern at first glance. The following is a brief descriptionof some of the salient features of three of these […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Increasing numbers of FX hedge funds are more hopeful that the recent dollar gains may continue in the near future. Many of these managers seem to be changingtheir bearish views on the dollar, that […]