Hedge Fund Ritchie Capital Management, as part of a liquidation plan, is selling a significant portion of its assets in its Multi-Strategy Fund for $1 billion to New York City-based Reservoir Capital...
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Exotic metals such as cobalt, vanadium and molybdenum may be the next targets for investors in the world's overcrowded commodity markets according to a . More hedge funds are knocking on the door...
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DealBook, by the New York Times has an article called "Hollywood Meets Hedge Funds", which announces a conference this week at the Beverly Hilton set up to strengthen hedge fund's ties...
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Here are a couple of the most common strategies that hedge fund managers use; Emerging markets : Investing in securities of companies in the ever emerging economies through the purchase of sovereign...
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Several hedge funds have been buying largely into the processed uranium market, causing most of the new demand for uranium and helping drive up the price more than fourfold within the past year. Hedge...
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In a HedgeCo story, "The BH Macro Limited fund, based on the British isle of Guernsey, is one of the first single strategy hedge funds to obtain a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange...
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I completely forgot to post today, I had a bunch of stuff lined up so I'll just do a summary here. *Geologist Mike Keenan will launch his maiden hedge fund, the Stowe Georesource Fund, a...
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Thompson Hine LLP is holding a free hedge fund seminar "Fiduciary Landmines in Organizing and Operating Hedge Funds" at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago on May 17. The seminar focuses on...
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Alternative Investment News, a publication of Institutional Investor News covering the global hedge fund industry, has announced the nominees for the 5th annual hedge fund Industry Awards. The awards...
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A deal between Belgian bank KBC Group NV and Russian bank Absolut was made in which the Belgian bank and hedge fund investor acquired 92.5% of shares in the Russian bank. KBC Group Chief Executive...
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According to a report by RenewableEnergyStocks.com, electric car pioneer ZAP just received a $79 million order from the Electric Vehicle Company. The Electric Vehicle Company is being funded by two...
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In a recent Hedgeco report, "The market environment has led to the estimation that eight of the ten hedge fund sectors will end March on a positive note. " The Credit Suisse/Tremont...
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In a Reuters article today "" a newly launched fund, Hua An Fund Management Co. attracted more than 30 billion yuan in subscriptions on its first day of launch, forcing Hua An to close the...
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London is by far the largest center for European hedge fund managers. The 900 hedge funds located in London accounted for four-fifths of European based hedge fund assets in 2006. If figures for fund...
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Quant House announced today that it has been selected by QIM, a US based quantitative hedge fund, to provide its multi asset-class trading strategies development framework, QuantFACTORY. Michael...
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Here are some pointers from the 2007 State Street Hedge Fund Research Study. I can't supply a link as the report had to be requested and is not available online yet. There is a story here;...
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Heres a couple of different kinds of strategy used by hedge fund managers I came across; Trader: Seeks to exploit short-term volatility in the price of a security. The trader need not have an opinion...
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Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc. (www.yipes.com), today announced HawkEyeSM fn, a performance measurement system for its Yipes FinancialConnect SM platform. Yipes FinancialConnect! is the first...
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Another good article in the New York Magazine, The Hedge-Fund Elite. *In first place; Steve Cohen at SAC Capital Advisors, Size: $12 billion. * At #2, Stephen Feinberg with Cerberus Capital, Size:...
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Over 2,000 post-secondary students acted as hedge fund managers for the InvestYoung National University Stock Market Competition which ran from October 16, 2006 to March 9, 2007. Approximately 20,000...
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Clean Energy Brazil, a biofuel fund that hopes to consolidate Brazil's booming ethanol-producing industry, expects to raise up to $600 million in ethanol funding. 85% of new car sales in Brazil...
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Good story here, The Running of the Hedgehogs, a little long so I'll condense it some. *Hedge funds show no evidence of passing, making this the most unrestrained financial moment in recent...
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Bahrain is a leader in the Persian Gulf as a hedge fund center, with over 2,000 authorized funds, including over 100 locally domiciled funds. The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) is now finalizing new...
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In a HedgeCo story; "As domicile for approximately 80% of the world's hedge funds, the Cayman Islands have now implemented a mechanism for the electronic submission of annual returns for all...
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