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August 5, 2010

Asian Hedge Funds Still Receiving Money Despite Losses

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Investors are continuing to pour money into hedge funds targeted towards Asian investments, even though Asian hedge funds faced big losses in the second quarter of the year. It seems that investors ar…

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September 26, 2007

AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong

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New lines of eco-friendly sandals and hand-crafted leather handbags from Indonesia will be on display at the China Sourcing Fair: Fashion Accessories Export Service Centre's booth 2D18 Oct. 12-15,…

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November 12, 2006

Fortress Joins the NYSE

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fortress Investment is about to become the first hedge fund listed on the NYSE.

Fortress Investment is planning to sell up to $750m (£393m) worth of stock in an initial public offering on the N…

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August 26, 2006

Renaissance Opens New Fund

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Renaissance Technologies, one of the best performing quantitative hedge funds, is opening a new fund to the tune of $100 billion.

Renaissance Technologies Corp., a top-performing hedge fund group hea…

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April 24, 2006

McNeally gives way to Schwartz

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Today's biggest story in the technology sector is the appointment of Jonathan Schwartz as Sun Microsystem's new CEO. Founder and Chairman Scott McNealy remains Chairman of the hardware giant, …

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May 20, 2005

Hedge fund facts from the morning Paper

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The hedge-fund industry manages nearly $1 trillion — a scary-sounding number, to be sure — that's chump change compared to the $12.74 trillion managed by mutual funds (excluding money market fun…

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May 17, 2005

Monday morning was clear.

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Well a few weeks has marched by and No Fund has gone belly up. By the end of last week and through out the weekend the wild stories and rumors flew.So Monday morning the US market firmed with out a &q…

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May 16, 2005

Hedge fund naked put selling

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Wild stories and rumors from london to new york and around the world. Hit hedge funds these last two weeks . Which intern has opened prying eyes in a field that likes to hide.

And we look at the dead…

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May 11, 2005

Hedge-fund troubles

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Pressure on investors such as hedge funds and Wall Street dealers to cut losses or reprice their positions. Speculation of hedge-fund troubles dogged the credit markets throughout Tuesday`s trading se…

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May 4, 2005

Money comes off the side lines

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Leon Cooperman:
hedge fund Omega Advisers Long 12 million MCI.

Blackstone Group LP , Thomas H. Lee Partners LP ,Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Bain Capital was out bid by Warburg and Texas Pac…

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