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on May 13, 2009
Along with an award for Hedge Fund Administrator of the year for their alternative investment services (AIS), the Bank of New York Mellon received 6 other awards at the International Custody & Fun...
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on April 26, 2009
HedgeCo.Net and HedgeCo Securities is holding the Spring 2009 Manager Showcase. This event is open to all accredited hedgeco.Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers.
This will...
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on April 21, 2009
Cayman Island law firm Solomon Harris is today hosting its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of 'Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds'.
"This...
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on April 15, 2009
FSA regulated specialist asset management firm, Silk Invest Ltd, has hired John Bates, former Head of Credit Research Africa at investment bank Renaissance Capital, to spearhead its move into Frontier...
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on April 6, 2009
FSA regulated asset manager, Silk Invest Ltd, successfully launched The African Lions Fund and the Arab Falcons Fund, which helped the hedge fund manager achieve its goals in becoming a specialist in ...
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on March 12, 2009
Long time hedge fund manager, Eric D. Pedersen has been appointed to The position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at fresh water reclamation company, STW Resources, I...
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on February 20, 2009
HedgeCo is inviting investors, hedge fund managers, and other industry professionals to come together and enjoy a night of sharing ideas and meeting new contacts at the first big networking event of 2...
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on February 17, 2009
Recently launched Codiam Fund, which invests in pre-cut colored diamonds, has reported an increase of 9% in the fund's net asset value over the first three months of trading.
"We launched th...
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on February 16, 2009
Playing a hedge fund banker turned killer, Dougray Scott stars in the 'credit crunch' movie: New Town Killers. It being shown for the first time in Scotland tonight as part of the Glasgow Film...
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on February 11, 2009
TurtleTrader is a record of an exceptional financial adventure. Author and leading news resource for the Turtles, Michael Covel, writes about the entrepreneurial nature of the world of trading, also f...
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on February 5, 2009
John Paulson came in as number one in the Foreign Policy's list: The Crisis's Big Winners; followed by George Soros, Steve Eisman, the UAE state of Quatar and ExxonMobil.
Paulson shorted the ...
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on February 3, 2009
The 11 year period of January 1998 through December 2008, which encompasses two market meltdowns and many other mini-crises, the Pharos Russia Fund has returned a total of 100.33%, against a gain of ...
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on February 2, 2009
Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC released a new research piece, 'One for the History Books: Hedge Fund Performance in 2008′, a review of the factors which contributed to hedge funds' dismal -19...
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on January 29, 2009
Missing hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel, who disappeared last week along with an estimated $350 million of investor's money, turned himself in to The FBI yesterday.
The Sarasota resident, 76, tu...
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on January 26, 2009
In a letter scheduled to be released today, January 26th, Bill Gates is offering insight to the world both about the current financial crisis as well as what his foundation has been able to do despite...
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on January 25, 2009
Informative book by Jason Scharfman on, well, pretty much everything you need to run a hedge fund, from risk management to disaster recovery, all need-to-know material for both investors and hedge fun...
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on January 23, 2009
Avanta is making its UK television debut with Million Dollar Traders on BBC2. Aired for 3 weeks in January, the series will play out at Avanta's Austin Friars business centre in London.
The progr...
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on January 12, 2009
According to a Reuters UK exclusive, hedge-fund firm GMB Capital Management, after loosing more than $50 million, is shutting down Boston-based GMB Low Volatility Fund LP. The fund had more than $100 ...
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on January 12, 2009
Some analysts are saying that the mighty New York Times might be headed down the same path as the bankrupt Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, according to one of my a...
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on December 19, 2008
Chicago-based information company hedge fund Research (HFR), said the number of hedge funds liquidated in the third quarter rose to 344, which is more than three times the 105 liquidations in the thi...
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on December 19, 2008
Business spectator comments on how the wealthy are dealing with the psychological scarring from this downturn.
Psychologists and therapists are one way to go, but an increasingly popular option for h...
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on December 17, 2008
It looks like there may be some good news for those seeking their dream job amidst the financial turmoil of the past few months.
Investment managers saw a 22% increase in job offers as rival firms t...
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on December 15, 2008
Julie Scuderi writes about the Madoff scandal and the investors that were burned are coming forward in droves, including Spanish bank Santander, French bank BNP Paribas, Fairfield Greenwich Group, Tre...
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on December 9, 2008
hedge fund Trian Partners said that they will buy about 49.4 million shares of fast-food operator Wendy's/Arby's Group for $4.15 per share, or about $205 million.
Triarc Cos. Inc., which ope...
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on December 2, 2008
Tudor Investment Corp's flagship portfolio, has been reported to have halted redemptions so they can segregate difficult-to-sell assets in the fund from those they can offload more easily.
Foun...
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on December 1, 2008
According to HedgeCo, the Energy Hedge Fund Center (EHFC) announced that it has added a 'green' hedge fund directory to its product inventory. EHFC's Directory of Energy Hedge Funds was la...
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on November 24, 2008
"Performance of the hedge fund industry has declined over 17% since October 2007, making the current performance drawdown the largest in history," said Kenneth J. Heinz, President of Hedge F...
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on November 20, 2008
Elliot "The Machine Gun" Odell, a 32-year-old Briton working in the hedge fund industry in Hong Kong and Graham "The Real Deal" McNeill, a 35-year-old partner at property sector co...
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on November 18, 2008
In HedgeCo news, hedge fund Manager OakRun Capital LLC announced the launch of a receivables refactoring fund, the 'Short Term High Yield Fund'.
The Cayman Islands exempted fund launched on ...
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on November 11, 2008
"Our survey found that both institutions and advisors want alternative investments that are liquid, transparent, and regulated like traditional investments," said Steve Deutsch, director of ...
