In a Hedgeco story I did today, Baader Wertpapierhandelsbank AG has been granted membership to the Compensation Fund of German Banks(EdB) by the German Financial Supervisory Authority(BaFin). Once the...
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My colleague at HedgeCo, Aaron Wormus, does a really good job here at what probably is the most complete (and simplest) description of the Sharpe ratio."Explaining the Sharpe Ratio (again)"...
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Surveying more than 400 high net worth investors with greater than $3 million in investable assets, the most recent Bank of America Survey of high net worth Americans indicates that US investors...
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Southridge LLC, a New York financial holding company, is launching a "not as you know" market neutral fund to add to their portfolio of funds. The new fund, Southridge Market Neutral US LP...
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The SEC has released a new `ComplianceAlert´ letter identifying common deficiencies and weaknesses that SEC examiners have found during recent compliance examinations of registered investment...
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$255,000 has been donated in grants to five institutions by the Hedge Funds Care Cayman (HFCC) 2008 grants. The grantees are the Nadine Andreas Foster Home (operated by the NCVO), the Cayman Islands...
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According to the Fact Sheet for June 2008 for the Iraqi Babylon Fund relative calmness characterized Babylon Fund's performance in June, mainly trading sideway with a modest 0.6% performance in...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, George Clerk According to one of the most experienced Russian hedge fund managers, Pharos Financial Group, Russia has held up very well over the month of June. For the...
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In a Hedgeco Story (full story here) Michael Adair, former head of sales finance for Google North America is joining Glam Media Inc, a global web-publishing network, as Vice President of Corporate...
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The SEC has clarified its position on the "Cash Solicitation Rule" saying that a registered investment adviser may compensate a person for soliciting investors for, or referring investors to...
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© Sroown In HedgeCo news, two established management firms have formed a mutually supportive relationship to provide Canadian alternative investors with access to the best alternative asset products...
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The craziest charity rally has set off from London to Mongolia!....... "Imagine yourself in the middle of the gargantuan Kazakh desert, your car slowly being shredded by the dirt track your map...
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© Akash k Hedge fund GlobeOp Financial Services is being used by Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in a business model case study developed for classroom. The case study,...
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In a HedgeCo story this morning I wrote about Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and the opening of an office in the United Arab Emirates' Dubai International Finance Centre. BGI has been active in...
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Filed in archive Op-Ed
by Alex Akesson on July 16, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Karl Dolenc 1. Approximately how much work is undertaken by women and girls globaly? A. one half B. two thirds C. one fifth 2. Women generate? A. less than 5% of the...
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In a Reuters story, former Samsung Group chief Lee Kun-hee, one of South Korea's most powerful businessmen, was handed a 3-year suspended jail sentence on Wednesday for tax evasion, but was...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Chad Anderson In a recent IRS Revenue Ruling addressing the tax treatment of management fees incurred in a "fund of funds" structure, the IRS's has...
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© Dredrk. Using a different approach to the hedge fund market, a Copenhagen fund has launched DanFonds 'Frontier markets hedge fund', a hybrid between the public market hedge fund approach...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Adam Kazmierski HedgeCo announced the opening of a new hedge fund hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The offices provide hedge fund firms with a 'plug and play'...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, mustafa deliormanli Hedge funds Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and DAG Ventures were led by Crosslink Capital in investing $15...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Duncan Walker In a HedgeWeek release, 'Report: SA Hedge Funds Growing', reporter Simon Gray says, "Industry members predict that the current soaring growth...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Emrah Turudu Julie Scuderi of HedgeCo writes, "The international man hunt for Sam Israel came to an end yesterday when the hedge fund fraudster turned himself over...
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© alexindigo Canadian hedge fund manager Dynamic Funds today announced the launch of two global growth funds, and a hedge fund of funds. Details of the funds are available at; Dynamic Launches an...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ugur Evirgen In a HedgeCo story, online database and analysis service provider DataMonitor predicts strong growth in funds of hedge funds over the next year, with less...
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