Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Euro shares rise for 5th session
Business Spectator – European shares jumped for a fifth straight session on Monday, led higher by financials, as investor sentiment improved following further assurances over the health of the US banking sector. At 0948 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of […]
Fortress Investment has bigger quarterly loss
Reuters – Fortress Investment Group LLC , one of the few publicly traded U.S. alternative asset managers, said on Monday its quarterly loss more than quadrupled, hurt by writedowns in some private equity funds. The net loss was $140 million, […]
Kids Beating the Market While Hedge Funds Struggle
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Despite the credit crunch, sixth formers at Sunningdale Preparatory School, near Ascot, Berkshire, have entered funds into a virtual trading competition… and their early efforts are beating the market. Far from being discouraged by the […]
Financial watchdog out to clip the hedge funds
Times Online – Secretive hedge funds will eventually be subject to the same supervisory rules as banks, under a tightening of Britain’s system of regulation. The changes, which will require banks and other lenders to build up their reserves in […]
Study Finds Few Hedge Funds Pocket Mythical ‘2 and 20’
The Wall Street Journal reports that the head of the Utah Retirement System is taking a stand on what he says are unfair hedge fund fees. As the Journal reports, Utah’s Larry Powell has extracted “better fees” from 10 of […]
Madoff Jailed After Guilty Plea
New York (Hedgeco.Net) – Bernard Madoff was finally promoted from house arrest to maximum security prison, after pleading guilty to the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Madoff, who swindled an estimated $65 billion out of the most elite investors, could […]
Hedge funds to jump at toxic asset loans
Stuff – Wealth managers at Citi are telling their clients to watch for a burst of hedge fund activity in bad assets. The wealth investor says in its most recent note that the biggest opportunity for hedge funds is probably around […]
For Laid-Off Singapore Expats, Home Is Where They’re Hiring
Time – On the northern fringe of Singapore, overlooking the slate-gray waters of the Johor Straits, the public-housing estate where Anthony Fulwood lives is so far from the city’s affluent expatriate enclaves that cab drivers are stunned when he announces […]
Should Jon Stewart Be The Financial Journalist Who Exposes TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer?
Market Rap – On his program, Jon Stewart played a Jim Cramer video from "Wall Street Confidential" done for the internet in 2006, where Cramer admitted to spreading rumors and manipulating markets as part of the "game". It was a […]
CBS Coverage Offers Protection for Hedge Funds
HedgeCo.Net – The "post-Madoff era" and the litigious society in which firms operate today have presented many operational risks that are beyond control. Managers are not getting paid to take those risks and the consequences can be devastating. Regulatory investigations […]