Yearly Archives: 2008
Rival Hedge Fund Avoids Steep Loses through Downside Protection Strategies
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) Canadian hedge fund manager, Rival Capital Management launched the Rival North American Growth Fund and since 2007 it has gained more than 80 accredited investors and $15 million in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Winnipeg, […]
Russia Looks Gloomy due to Crisis
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Russian market continued to sell off in October as the global financial crisis continued to wreak havoc everywhere, according to the Pharos Russia Fund, October was the fifth consecutive month of losses for the RTS […]
Ramius Capital to close four funds
Reuters – Ramius Capital, an activist hedge fund, is informing its investors that it will close four funds with a combined $550 million in assets, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the fund. The assets of the […]
Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain
Bloomberg – There’s not a lot of light in Paulson & Co.’s 28th-floor headquarters on a drizzly November afternoon. The Alexander Calder sculpture and multicolored prints have been shipped to the firm’s new offices six blocks south. Darkness envelops the […]
Hedge Fund Investors Demanding More Control
New York Post – The days of hedge funds operating behind a curtain may soon be over. Bruised and bloodied by unprecedented losses, hedge-fund investors are rebelling, demanding lower fees, greater transparency and, in a growing number of cases, unfettered […]
Redemptions Halted by one of the Worlds Largest Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – One of the world’s largest hedge funds has temporarily halted redemptions according to reports. Tudor Investment Corp’s flagship portfolio, has been reported to have halted redemptions so they can segregate difficult-to-sell assets in the fund […]
Forecasts blown to bits
London Free Press – The instability plaguing financial markets seems to have spilled over into the environment, making the winter forecast from Environment Canada a crapshoot of sorts, one of this country’s top weather gurus said yesterday. And with the […]
Wall Street’s losses may be computer science’s gain
Computerworld Australia – The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and other IT careers attractive to students who abandoned those fields in droves after the dot-com bust of 2001. William Dally, chairman of the computer science department at […]
New rules to cut CO2 emissions
Straits Times – EU nations on Monday reached a compromise agreement on new rules to cut CO2 emissions from new cars from 2012, with penalties for automakers who fail to comply, a negotiator said. The deal, part of wider EU efforts […]
EU moves toward new hedge fund rules
Washington Post – The European Union will this week take the first step toward new rules governing high-risk hedge funds, the EU’s financial services chief said Monday. EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, long opposed to regulating the funds, is bowing to […]
Research Edge, LaBranche In Research/Trading Partnership
CNNMoney.com – When Keith McCullough left his hedge fund job last October to start an independent research company, it may have seemed like a curious move. Fourteen months, a highly prescient call on the market crash, and several key hires […]
US option volume slows from record pace
Reuters – The options market suffered a setback as U.S. exchange-listed volume last month fell 21.2 percent to 224.9 million contracts down from 310.8 million contracts for the same period last year, the Option Industry Council (OIC) said on Monday. […]