Yearly Archives: 2007
SEC vs. hedge funds – CNNMoney.com
(Fortune) — Are investors mad at the SEC – or are hedge funds mad at the SEC? That’s the question raised by several readers about the SEC’s proposal to increase the amount of money you need to have to invest […]
Economic Powers to Study Growing Influence of Hedge Funds
ESSEN, Germany, Feb. 10  Finance ministers from the world’s leading economies put the $1.4 trillion hedge fund industry firmly on the international policy agenda on Saturday, saying they would scrutinize the sector closely with an eye toward encouraging more […]
Hedge Fund Survey Shows Established Names Have More Chance of Success
HedgeCo.Net (New York) – The Absolute Return New Funds Survey for 2006, published in the February issue of Absolute Return magazine, shows that new hedge fund launches in the U.S. slowed for the second year in a row. Last year, […]
Sarkozy to push for tax on hedge funds
MSN MoneyCentral – Nicolas Sarkozy will push for a European tax on “speculative movements” by financial groups, such as hedge funds, if he wins this year’s French presidential elections. The centre-right candidate to replace Jacques Chirac said in comments published […]
Hedge Funds Seen Targeting Restaurants
Forbes – Applebee’s International Inc.’s announcement Tuesday that it will consider a sale of the company highlights the growing influence hedge funds are having on the restaurant industry – a trendthat’s expected to continue in 2007. Activist hedge funds have […]
Bear Stearns May Have to Repay Failed Hedge Fund $180 Million
Bloomberg – Bear Stearns Cos. may be ordered today to pay a failed hedge fund as much as $180 million in a court ruling that will help determine how aggressively Wall Street firms police their mostlucrative trading clients. Burton Lifland, […]
Dig deeper to find value from hedge funds: Permal –
The Financial Standard – Hedge funds and their returns should not be a mystery, according to fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Permal Group, even if the hedge fund moniker is now so widely bandied around it is next to […]
Hedge funds fight back at growing attack
Business Online – Concern is mounting across the City of London’s thriving $400bn (£267.6bn, €305.8bn) hedge fund industry that it is soon to be the target of a vilification campaign similar to that being waged against private equity. The fears […]
Hedge Funds Up 1.3% in January
The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index value is 390.53 returning 290.53% for the 157-month period since inception (January 1, 1994 through January 31, 2007). For additional current and historical data including more comparisons with other widely followed global indices, visit […]
Hedge Funds Grab for Cash In Attempt To Stop Blowout
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) – The global leveraged takeover bubble of hedge funds and private equity funds may begin to explode this month in your living room, especially if you live in Manhattan or in Dresden. Two large private-equity takeover […]
Signs of the coming hedge-fund apocalypse.
Slate – Because I’m writing a book about booms and busts in American history, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how real and rational economic trends cross over into bubble territory. For theInternet, residential real estate (now officially […]
No ‘flying beneath radar’ for hedge funds
The hedge fund industry got a reminder from former U.S. Senator John Breaux (D-Louisiana) that the days of flying beneath the regulatory radar screen are over and that the industry needs to do abetter job of getting out ahead of […]