Yearly Archives: 2007
Has Corn Hit Its Peak?
Business Week — Corn prices had to take a breather at some point. After an eye-popping ascent in 2006, prices for the yellow grain fell on Mar. 30 after a highly anticipated Agriculture Dept. report predicted that farmers would plant […]
Hedge fund tactics trickle down to everyday investors
Greenwich Time –Aggressive and secretive, hedge funds employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid of risk. Now, some of those strategies are trickling down to investments used by average investors. The hedge funds’ […]
Predicting the next big hedge fund IPO
(Fortune Magazine) — On the night before Fortress Investment Group became the first hedge fund to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, Wesley Edens and the other four principals celebrated in a manner that befits the firm’s intentionally low-key […]
A hedge fund superstar
(Fortune Magazine) — On North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, on the Magnificent Mile, sits one of the city’s tallest and swankiest residential buildings. The most notable feature of the structure, a seven-year-old art deco-ish number called the Park Tower, is […]
Northwater Capital Management Inc. Launches two Innovative …
New York – Northwater Capital Management Inc. announced today the launch of the Northwater Portable Alpha U.S. Bond Fund and the Northwater Portable Alpha U.S. Equity Fund. Both funds are structured as portable alpha offerings, with investors choosing a targeted […]
CNBC’s Cramer boasts of manipulating markets
CNBC TV host Jim Cramer has made a name for himself telling viewers how to make money in the stock market. Here’s one time he might wish he’d kept quiet. In a video originally broadcast on trading website TheStreet.com on […]
Big US pension funds have little in hedge funds
Boston – The largest U.S. public funds are investing less than 1 percent of the $2.4 trillion they manage in hedge funds, suggesting that conservative investors are not fully comfortable with these loosely regulated funds. A new survey released on […]
Funds take the fight to private equity firms on three fronts
Hedge funds are threatening to outmanoeuvre private equity on three fronts and force their rivals to seek safety in sophistication. Private equity firms are fighting over public company ownership, the search for talent and competing for assets under management, but […]
Electronic Tracking For Cayman Domiciled Funds In Place
HedgeCo.net – As domicile for approximately 80% of the world’s hedge funds, the Cayman Islands have now implemented a mechanism for the electronic submission of annual returns for all funds licensed, registered and administered in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman […]
Campbell & Company Appoints Terri Becks President & CEO
HedgeCo.net – Towson, MD, April 3, 2007 — Campbell & Company announced today the appointment of Terri Becks to the position of President & Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Bruce Cleland, who will become Vice Chairman. Keith Campbell, founder and Chairman […]
Hedge funds set to face 2-year lock-in
New Delhi – The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has told several hedge funds wanting to invest in India that they should agree to a lock-in period of two years as a cushionagainst sudden withdrawal under adverse circumstances. […]
IMA proposes sensitive data sharing between fund firms
London – A controversial plan to enable investment houses to share data on each other’s fund flows and analyse intermediary activity is under development by the Investment Management Association. The Data Exchange project is intended to improve transparency between IMA […]