Yearly Archives: 2007
Stockpickr: Trade Like Goldman Sachs
Let’s face it: Goldman Sachs (GS – Cramer’s Take – Stockpickr – Rating) is the best bank out there. It sees all the deal flow, and both major political parties are full of formerGoldman executives. Goldman has consistently generated great […]
Citi Ready for Prime Time
The New York banking titan has created a joint venture between two of its corporate and investment banking business — capital markets and transaction services — to better cater to this much sought-after, highly lucrative clientele. The news comes as […]
British Hedge Funds Back Up TCI In Dutch Bank Attack
HedgeCo.net – ABN Amro Holding NV said last week it was in preliminary discussions with Barclays about creating a company worth more than $160 billion, this comes after pressure from activist hedgefund TCI asking to split up of the Dutch […]
Asian Regulators Discuss Hedge Funds
HedgeCo.net – About 40 securities regulators from around Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to discuss hedge funds. The regional seminar on Collective Investment Schemes/Hedge Funds is taking place in Beijing Monday through the 30th as part of […]
Trading Bonuses & Hedge Fund Sales
HedgeCo.net – A major new survey of salary and bonus packages awarded to stock market traders globally reveals that those operating in the Middle East achieved the highest percentage increases ahead of their counterparts in London and on Wall Street.The […]
TABB Group Expands Research Analyst and Client Coverage Teams
TABB Group, the financial markets research, advisory and crisis management firm with offices in New York, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. announced today the addition of two research analysts and a sales director to meet current customer demands and position the […]
Yorkville Hires Private Placement Veteran
HedgeCo.net –JERSEY CITY, NJ, March 26, 2007 – Yorkville Advisors, LLC, a firm engaged in providing structured equity financing solutions to growing companies worldwide, today announced that it has hired Richard Brand to the position of Managing Director and Jeff […]
Yorkville Hires Venture Tech Investment Veteran
HedgeCo.net — JERSEY CITY, NJ, – Yorkville Advisors, LLC, a firm engaged in providing structured equity financing solutions to growing companies worldwide, today announced that it has hired Michael J. Nowak as a Managing Director in its burgeoning Technology Investment […]
How to Beat Hedge-Fund Bullies, Part 2
CFO.com — Considering how much havoc activist hedge funds can wreak on the best-laid corporate plans and the careers of senior management, finance chiefs would do well to be on high alert when such investors gain power in their companies, […]
Hedge-fund strategies affect average investors
Baltimore Sun — 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 […]
S&P highlights diversification benefits of funds of hedge funds – Easier
Easier Finance – Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has warned about some of the risks of direct investment in hedge funds, thrown into sharp relief by the collapse of multi-strategy hedge fundAmaranth Advisors last September. “Perhaps the most critical lesson […]
Parker Global Launches Energy & Global Natural Resources Fund
HedgeCo.net — STAMFORD, CT, March 26, 2007 * Parker Global Strategies (PGS) today announced the launch of their first energy and natural resources fund-of-funds — PGS Global Energy Edge in responseto investor demand. The sector focused fund has initially invested […]