Yearly Archives: 2010
Female touch is boosting hedge funds
Guardian – Unlike most lists of its kind, our survey of the top 50 female hedge fund managers does not include details of the personal or family lives of the women involved. Had we tried to include them, some of […]
Prominent hedge funds jumping into financials
Reuters – Prominent hedge fund managers voted with their wallets in the fourth quarter to declare the long financial crisis over, and made big bets on banks and other lenders to back that view. John Paulson, Edward Lampert and Carl […]
Capital Introduction Trends Affecting the Hedge Fund Industry
New York – (HedgeCo.net) – New York based institutional investment research company, Carbon 360, conducted a survey of third party marketers as well as capital introductions groups titled “Capital Introduction Trends in 2010”, to investigate the most sought after strategies, […]
The hedge fund’s image makeover
Politico – Richard Baker, president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association, uses a Domino’s Pizza ad, of all things, to illustrate how much work the hedge-fund industry he represents has to do to polish its image as Congress eyes […]
What Is Hedge Fund King John Paulson Doing in Greece?
Alternet – Goldman Sachs’s Greek adventure got an in-depth look from the New York Times yesterday. The article extends on last week’s Spiegel piece, which reported that the bank helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt through the […]
Phibro chief’s new fund delivers a touch of history
Financial Times – The former Citigroup star energy trader who became a symbol of high compensation on Wall Street is raising money for a hedge fund named after a village near his historic German castle. Andrew Hall, head of Phibro, […]
A banner year for hedge funds
CNN Money – It looks like risk is back. The hedge fund industry had a phenomenal 2009, with a return of 18.6%, for its greatest rebound in 15 years, says a report from industry research firm Credit Suisse Tremont. Even […]
KTOs Plans to Invest $330 Million in Startup Asian Hedge Funds
BusinessWeek – KTOs Capital Partners Co., a Japanese fund of hedge-fund advisory firm, aims to raise and invest 30 billion yen ($333 million) this year in new Asian hedge funds being established as global financial crisis ebbs. Satoko Koshida, founding […]
ASIC must move quickly on Trio fund
Sydney Morning Herald – When there are two sets of accounts with widely varying outcomes it is hard to avoid an ugly possibility: some form of fraud has been afoot. This is the proposition investigators of Trio Capital are now […]
Hedge funds turn on Euro stocks
Telegraph – A raft of European banks, healthcare companies and property firms have attracted a sudden spike in “short positions” over the past two weeks, according to figures from DataExplorers. Financial stocks, considered to be in the frontline in the […]
$4.51 Billion Allocated To Hedge Funds In January
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Performance losses reduced total hedge fund assets, but investor flows were net positive in January; a positive sign for the industry, according to an early estimate for January 2010 hedge fund asset flows and performance by […]