Over the past 10 years, returns in the art market have outpaced gains made by the S&P 500, according to the Mei Moses art index. The statistics in this index, created by two professors at New York...
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Grid software provider Digipede Technologies announced today that hedge fund manager III Offshore Advisors has deployed the Digipede Network to power its high-performance financial analytics grid....
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This is from a story I have been working on for HedgeCo, I think these kind of events are great and need as much coverage as they can get; This year's ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) 2007 Gala...
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The third annual Financial Services Challenge, an inter-company event for the British Virgin Islands' financial services industry, is set to take place on Sunday, June 24. Teams will be racing off...
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Ugland House is what's known as an "address of convenience" for many of the 70,000 U.S. and other foreign companies, limited partnerships and trusts that are based in this Caribbean...
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In a HedgeCo story; Globeleq, the emerging markets power company, announced that it has reached agreements to sell its operating power businesses in Latin America, North Africa and Asia. Globeleq is...
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Hedge funds piled into the reinsurance market after last year's record hurricane season, which inflicted huge losses on the global insurance and reinsurance industries. Sales of CAT (catastrophe)...
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In a HedgeCo story;Amanda Capital Group, the first publicly listed private equity hedge fund-of-funds in Scandinavia announced that Amanda III Eastern Private Equity L.P. fund-of-funds exceeded its...
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The 1st Annual Ernst & Young Islamic Funds & Investments Report (IFIR) is being launched to address the dynamic landscape of Islamic Private Equity market. The inaugural report will focus on...
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The world's biggest hedge funds are getting bigger and at a faster rate than their smaller rivals, according to a new report. Alpha Magazine's annual survey of hedge fund assets shows that the...
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JetFin events is presenting the India Hedge Funds conference this year at the Hotel Mandarin Oriental du Rhone in Geneva, Switzerland. Starting on Tuesday, June 12, 2007, the conference will be...
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I was doing some research on the effect hedge funds are having on politics and if there is any possibility that these giants could sway the outcome. In the news, so far hedge fund executives gave at...
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Chicago-based HFR Group L.L.C. today announced in a press release the publication in Arabic for the first time of its benchmark Quarterly industry report on the performance and size of the global...
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Good article on short stocks; "borrow them, sell them, and hope to profit by replacing the borrowed shares at lower prices. The lower prices go, the more money they make, and the higher the...
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"Hedge funds are the vanguard of a financial revolution. Once little known and secretive fringe forces, they have become leading actors in reshaping the corporate world. As active investors...
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From the associated press, todays story is interesting about president hopefuls; Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani reported a whopping $16.1 million in earned income over the past 16...
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Russia is showing strong macro economics, a commodity boom, major structural improvements particularly in the energy, telecom and electricity sectors, liquidity and volumes on the increase, a...
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CB Richard Ellis Group and Reech AiM Group have formed a joint venture to set up property hedge funds with a UK and European focus. Launched successfully on May 12th, the Iceberg Alternative Real...
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AdultVest.com is planning on hosting the first annual AdultVest investment conference in Los Angeles, CA, geared to match institutional and accredited investors with adult industry related investment...
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Cole Asset Management is today hosting "A Leg To Stand On", a fund raising event in London at the Cafe de Paris tonight. A Leg To Stand On levels the playing field for disabled children in...
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An article in the New York Times reported that DaimlerChrysler is close to selling Chrysler to hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management; "Chrysler on Verge of Sale to a Private Firm"....
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In Yonhap News today, South Korea will consider allowing hedge funds as part of efforts to promote its financial markets once its asset management market becomes solid, the finance minister said...
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Kassirer Market Neutral Fund, a Cayman-based hedge fund primarily engaged in U.S. and Canadian merger arbitrage, earned 1.3% in April, another Kassirer hedge fund, the Kassirer Market Neutral limited...
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In a Bloomberg article; Senate aides, looking for new sources of revenue, are studying how Harvard, Yale and Stanford use offshore hedge funds to avoid tax bills. Members of the Senate Finance...
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