Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
UPDATE 1 – Och-Ziff reports loss, sets aside bonuses
CNN Money – Hedge fund firm Och-Ziff Capital Management Group reported a wider second-quarter net loss Tuesday and lower-than-expected distributable earnings, a number analysts look at closely. The New York-based firm, one of only a small number of publicly traded […]
Following the Money Behind Public Pension Funds
WNYC – An investigation into corruption at the New York State pension fund has raised questions about the fund’s dealings with Wall Street. Federal and state regulators are examining how the pension fund chooses its private money managers. Last month […]
EU Law May Cost Pension Industry Billions of Euros, AIMA Claims
Bloomberg – The European Union’s plan to regulate hedge funds will cost the bloc’s pension industry about 25 billion euros ($36 billion) a year, the Alternative Investment Management Association said. The proposed law would drive pension funds toward more traditional […]
Hedge funds in ’09: Turning crisis into an opportunity
Gulf Times – It can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when there is no immediately apparent difference between them. These days, the world of hedge funds more closely resembles a vast field of chaff, with just […]
Hedge Fund Fees Firm With Rebound as LBO Fees Bow to Pensions
Bloomberg – Larry Powell, deputy investment chief for the $16 billion Utah Retirement Systems, was convinced in January that hedge funds finally would buckle under the pressure of record losses in 2008 and lower their fees. He figured it was […]
George Soros snaps up GLG hedge fund star Robert Donald
Times Online – GLG Partners, the London-based hedge fund, is on the point of losing a star fund manager this weekend in a situation that mirrors the high-profile departure of another top manager, Greg Coffey, last year. Robert Donald, who […]
Touradji’s Winning Way Fails to Obscure Ex-Employees’ Hostility
Bloomberg – Paul Touradji had a good year in 2008, a 12-month span that most other traders would like to forget. His flagship hedge fund, Touradji Global Resources Fund LP, returned 8.6 percent trading oil, copper and aluminum. The average […]
Bandon Provides Smaller Investors Access To Flagship Hedge Fund Strategy
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge fund manager Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has made it’s flagship investment strategy, DIRS – Directional Interest Rate Strategy – available to investment advisors through Adhesion’s WealthADV UMA platform. The flagship strategy, celebrating it’s 5th […]
U.K. Probing Hedge Funds, Structured Finance Amid Fraud Concern
Bloomberg – The U.K. Serious Fraud Office is investigating sales of structured-finance products such as credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations prior to the global financial crisis. The SFO is looking into whether banks that sold the products knew […]
Hedge Fund Demand: Brighton House Associates Q2 2009 Report
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – During the first quarter, most alternative investors spent their time rebalancing their portfolios, redeeming with current managers, and waiting for the market to correct itself. This process freed up capital and uncovered gaps in portfolios, […]
What Hedge Funds Are Up to
Seeking Alpha – This is the latest edition in a new series of posts we’re doing here entitled, ‘hedge fund news summaries.’ And, as as the title obviously states, the goal is to give you the quick hits of everything […]