1. JPMorgan Asset Management, including Highbridge Capital Management, main offices in N.Y. Assets under management; $34 billion as of Jan '07. 2. Goldman Sachs Asset Management, also in New York,...
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New York remains by some distance the most popular location for major hedge fund firms, with 123 of the Global Billion Dollar Club headquartered there - over 35% of those firms, and representing 41.5%...
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Interesting article here; Osiris Rises on Heart-Treatment News. Investors bid up Osiris Therapeutics stock by 13.6% to $20.33 per share in early trading on the Nasdaq on March 26 after the...
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In a story for HedgeCo.net - "According to a new Spectrem Perspective report released today, "Alternative Investments: Are They a Priority for Affluent Portfolios?", just 18% of...
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Interesting book on the hedge-fund industry by Ann Logue, MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and analyst for firms Andrew Davidson & Co. and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company. This book...
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"Blood Diamond" was a well spent couple of hours, DiCaprio was convincing in his role as a Rhodesian "soldier of fortune" and of course there's the well meaning reporter played...
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After General Motors announced it would not make a first round bid on the company, the remaining bidders include, Canadian auto parts supplier Magna International Inc. which is thought to have teamed...
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Approximately 80% of the world's hedge funds are believed to be domiciled in the Cayman Islands. As a result, Cayman Islands hedge fund companies and service providers, such as law firms,...
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I got an interesting email from Bob Torkelund about his company's Iraqi investment fund, it seems the hedge fund, Babylon, is aiming to be a gateway towards investing in the region, as the Iraqi...
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LONDON, By Bloomberg: "Man Group, the world's largest publicly listed hedge fund manager, will introduce funds seeking to profit from so-called green investments like carbon-emissions...
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Heres a big story I have been working on for HedgeCo; Londinium Emerging Markets Fund Of Hedge Fund Launch. Some of the markets this fund plans to invest in include, Greater China, Eastern Europe,...
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In a case being investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a mother and son team have recently been charged with operating a multi-million dollar...
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Actually, the title is the name of the picture, it has nothing to do with the story, I just like it. The article is called "Investing: Hedge funds: market angels or demons?" The article is...
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In a HedgeCo story, the hedge fund index provider Greenwich Alternative Investments LLC., returned +0.61% for February in their Global Hedge Fund Index. The Greenwich Investable Hedge Fund Index...
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DaimlerChrysler announced this month it was considering all options for Chrysler, including a split, but without Chrysler, the Daimler group could be more of a takeover target for hedge funds....
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Filed in archive by Alex Akesson on March 15, 2007
Interesting HedgeCo story I was working on; In recent weeks the unions have had concerns about the employment impact of buy-outs and questions about hedge fund transparency, corporate governance and...
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Judge Allan Gropper of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York ordered hedge funds to disclose the details of their holdings in Northwest Airlines. "Any interest that individual committee members...
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IncreMental Advantage's Executive Conference series has decided to focus on risk management as a new topic in its Hedge Fund Due Diligence conference. This comes after the recent criticism of the...
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Hedge funds such as Citadel and Vega have been reported as trying to gain direct access to the pan-European bond exchange network MTS. MTS is an abbreviation for Mercato dei Titoli di Stato, which...
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More news on activist hedge funds; "A group of high-profile hedge funds that collectively control about 46% of Take-Two Interactive Software has launched a proxy battle to "review the...
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According to a new survey conducted by Absolute Return magazine, money continued to flow steadily into alternative investments last year, causing the combined assets of the largest US hedge funds to...
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