Monthly Archives: September 2012

The Hedge Fund Manager & The Leaked Romney Fundraiser Video

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A video leaked of Mitt Romney making disparaging remarks about Obama supporters at a $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton fundraising event, may have been illegally taped according to Florida laws. The video of the Republican nominee making negative remarks about 47% of the country was recorded […]

Four Top Hedge Fund Managers Join AIMA Board Of Directors, Six To Retire

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Former SEC commissioner Kathleen Casey was appointed the new Chairman of the hedge fund industry association (AIMA) last week. Joining her on the Council is Olwyn Alexander, Partner, PwC; Mark O’Sullivan, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP; […]

Lehman to Pay Creditors Another $10.5 Billion

Reuters – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on Tuesday [Sept. 25] said it will pay about $10.5 billion to creditors starting early next month, the second leg of a plan to eventually pay out more than $65 billion. Lehman will distribute […]

Goldman Sachs sets up hedge fund platform

FierceFinance – Funds of hedge funds have disappointed plenty of limited partners as of late. In some ways, this segment of the industry has performed the worst since the financial crisis in terms of inflows. Criticism has been rampant, which has […]

A Hedge Fund’s Complex Scheme May Cost It Millions

DealBook – Hedge funds are supposed to be the smart money, but sometimes even they can be outsmarted. Take the case of Mason Capital Management and the Telus Corporation, a large Canadian telecommunications company. Mason Capital, a New York and London […]

Hedge Fund Skeptics Warn on ‘QE Infinity’

CNBC – “A man’s got to know his limitations,” says “Dirty Harry” Callahan, the gun-toting, rule book-ignoring cop immortalised by Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force. It is a principle the US Federal Reserve – which earlier this month embarked upon […]

Portfolio Managers Embrace Alternatives

Barron’s – Risk has become the ultimate four-letter word for managers of investments of major institutions such as pension funds and endowments. And risk, as they see it, extends beyond the chance of loss in overpriced stocks such as Facebook (ticker: FB), […]

Hedge Fund Managers See Migration of Assets Into Equities

Forbes – As part of a fundraising event by hedge funds known as Trading Day for Kids, three of the industry’s titans convened to share their feelings on the likely direction of the markets over the next few weeks and […]

100 Women in Hedge Funds announces 100WHF/CAIA scholarship recipients

Opalesque – 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC (PAAMCO), and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Foundation today announced the 10 recipients of the second annual 100WHF/CAIA Scholarships. The scholarship program, administered by the […]

Mitt Romney 2011 Tax Returns Reveal No Hedge Fund Secrets

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – After months of debate as to what is in Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns, they were made public on the campaign website. Expecting a bevy of hedge fund secrets, journalists and blogers were […]

Facebook Inc. (FB) Hasn’t Scared Hedge Funds Out of Private Equity

Insider Monkey – Facebook Inc. has caused many a headache in the investing world. After the so-called debacle that was the Facebook Inc. IPO, with the company now down 40% since its opening price, we found it interesting that many funds were increasing […]

German High-Frequency Bill to Affect Hedge Funds, Official Says

Bloomberg – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet will vote on a bill tomorrow that limits high-frequency trading even for market participants outside Germany and requires automated orders to be marked as such, a government official said. High-frequency traders will have to […]