Monthly Archives: April 2012
Hedge Fund Research: Oxford Uni Partners with Man Group
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The University of Oxford is establishing a lab as the latest project in the collaborative venture between Oxford and $58.4 billion hedge fund investment manager, Man Group plc. The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) virtual ‘data […]
Man Group Rises; UBS Says Hedge-Fund Firm Is a Bid Target
Bloomberg – Man Group Plc rose in London trading after analysts at UBS AG said the past year’s share- price decline for the world’s biggest publicly traded hedge-fund manager makes it a takeover target. The shares rose 4.5 percent to […]
Opinion: JOBS ACT to Revolutionize Hedge Fund Marketing
By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Member at Agecroft Partners, LLC. – There have been a number of recent articles that have been written about the JOBS ACT and it’s implication on the hedge fund industry. I think this could […]
Hedge Fund Manager RK Capital Planning New Product in Metals
Bloomberg – RK Capital Management LLP plans to introduce a hedge fund that will bet only on rising metals prices, with a goal of raising as much as $1 billion. The Red Kite Real Return Fund Ltd. will invest in […]
Hedge fund Brevan Howard cashes in on popularity
Reuters – Investors desperate to get exposure to Brevan Howard’s Master fund, one of the world’s biggest and top-performing hedge funds, are piling into a fund giving them only partial exposure to the secretive firm’s flagship portfolio. The Brevan Howard […]
Fraud lawsuit survives over Goldman’s Abacus CDO
Reuters – Goldman Sachs Group Inc must defend fraud claims brought by a bond insurance company over its notorious Abacus mortgage product deal, a New York state judge ruled, but she decided that the investment bank did not unjustly enrich […]
Connecticut-based hedge fund manager found dead in NC
Reuters – Money manager B. Robert Williamson Jr., the nephew of Wall Street investment guru Julian Robertson, was found dead on Sunday in North Carolina, in water surrounding an island. Williamson, who was 55, was managing director and portfolio manager […]
MIT Professor, Son Settle Hedge Fund Fraud Charges
NPR – A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and his son will pay $4.8 million to settle charges that their hedge fund solicited funds with a fabricated track record. Gabriel Bitran and his son, Marco, who, beginning in 2005, raised […]
Hedge fund exit requests hit new April low
Reuters – Investor demands to pull money out of hedge funds fell in April, data shows, in a sign that renewed volatility in financial markets may not be piling fresh pressure on more clients to quit the sector. The GlobeOp […]
Hedge Funds Significantly Outperformed Equities, Bonds and Commodities over the Past 17 Years
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge funds significantly outperformed traditional asset classes such as equities, bonds and commodities over the last 17 years according to a new study by The Centre for Hedge Fund Research at Imperial College in London. The […]
Axiom hedge fund portfolio waives management fee
Reuters – A fund that invests in an index of EU-regulated hedge funds is waiving its annual charge to clients, a rare move in an industry known for high fees, in a bid to win back hedge fund investors driven […]
Macquarie hedge fund exits short bets in India on tax fears
Business Standard – Macquarie’s Asia hedge fund has exited its short positions in Indian single stock futures, in response to a controversial set of proposed tax rules that could lower investment returns. Instead, it has decided to use a futures […]