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- FrontPoint’s Fixed-Income Arb. Hedge Fund Drops 16%
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Or something to that extent.
FrontPoint Partner’s $378.5 million Relative Value Opportunities Fund, a fixed-income arbitrage strategy, has been feeling the pinch since the beginning of the year.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- HF Advisory Firm Increases Assets, Staff
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Hedge fund advisory firm D5 is expanding its staff while raking in two new accounts, with each promising capacity of $50 million, for a possible $100 million on additional capital for the firm.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Permira Taps Goldman Vet For Asian Gig
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Permira has appointed Henry Chen, the former co-head of the General Industrials Group for Asia ex-Japan at Goldman Sachs, as head of Greater China.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Funds See Counterparty Risk As Threat To Global Markets
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Hedge fund managers say that counterparty risk in credit-default swaps represents a serious threat to global financial markets and there will be another major financial services firm meltdown as a result of the ongoing crisis.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Funds See Counterparty Risk As Growing Threat To Global Markets
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Hedge fund managers say that counterparty risk in credit-default swaps represents a serious threat to global financial markets and there will be another major financial services firm meltdown as a result of the ongoing crisis.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Conn. Distressed Debt Hedge Fund To Close
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A Greenwich, Conn.-based distressed debt hedge fund shop is closing its doors in the face of enormous redemption requests.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund SRM Down 77% Through July
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A British hedge fund burned by the collapsing financial services sector has lost more than three-quarters of its value this year, and is down 85% since its inception two years ago.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Alleged Fraudster Of Orthodox Jews Denied Bond
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Accused hedge fund fraudster Joseph Shereshevsky will remain in jail to await his arraignment on fraud charges, a federal judge has ruled.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Q&A: Marco Polo Pure Goes For The Gold In China
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In Chinese, the words for "risk" and "opportunity" are the same. Aaron Boesky founded Hong Kong-based Marco Polo Pure Asset Management with that in mind.
Marco Polo began its journey shortly after the Chinese government first allowed foreign investors to enter the A-shares market—shares of mainland China-based companies quoted in Chinese yuan that were formerly available only to Chinese citizens—in 2004.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Capula’s Golden For Goldman
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A London hedge fund that a Goldman Sachs vehicle owns a stake in more than doubled its revenue last year, according to company filings.
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- FSA Fines Credit Suisse $10.5M
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The Financial Services Authority has fined the U.K. operations of Credit Suisse £5.6 million (US$10.5 million) for what it says was the bank’s failure to “conduct their business with due skill, care and diligence and failing to organise and control their business effectively.”
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Mulvaney Drops 18% In July
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July was not kind to hedge funds, and Mulvaney Capital Management was no exception.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Change In The Air For Fund Of Funds Fee Structures
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By Brad Balter — Funds of hedge funds have been and will continue to be an integral part of hedge fund investing.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund Advisor Hires Mathematician and Boosts Assets
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Hedge fund advisory firm D5 announced the launch of two new accounts, with each promising capacity of $50 million, for a possible $ 100 million on additional capital for the firm. The new accounts coincide with the hiring of mathematician and scientist Andrew Vizcarra as Director of research….
Original Source: www.hedgefunds-weblog.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund Advisor Hires Mathematician and Boosts Assets
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Hedge fund advisory firm D5 announced the launch of two new accounts, with each promising capacity of $50 million, for a possible $ 100 million on additional capital for the firm. The new accounts coincide with the hiring of mathematician and scientist Andrew Vizcarra as Director of research….
Original Source: www.hedgefunds-weblog.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Efficient markets
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Right now, there are - surely - any number of arb opportunities in the markets. Confidence is breaking down, investors are heading all over the place, spreads are wild, equities aren’t listening… and there’s a paucity of decent fundamental analysis.
Take, for example, Thomson Reuters. Felix Salmon writes:……
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund Advisor Hires Mathematician and Boosts Assets
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Hedge fund advisory firm D5 announced the launch of two new accounts, with each promising capacity of $50 million, for a possible $ 100 million on additional capital for the firm. The new accounts coincide with the hiring of mathematician and scientist Andrew Vizcarra as Director of research….
Original Source: hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- For you, CDO, ze war is over
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Last days in the Bunker.
Price discovery in structured finance - specifically for collateralised debt obligations - has proved to be a rather painful and winding road. It has taken until now for anyone (LoneStar) to set a price for triple-A CDO tranches (22 cents on the dollar) that seems faintly plausible…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund Correlation Research Report by Credit Suisse
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Hedge funds generally are more correlated in bull market runs and more de-correlation at market downturns. A comparison of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Broad Benchmark Index (HEDG), an asset-weighted broad benchmark of the hedge fund industry, to the MSCI World Index, a broad equity index, shows that the 12-month rolling correlation between the two has dropped from its peak of 0.97 in June 2006 to 0.61 in June 2008. The findings are given in a research report by Credit Suisse Index….
Original Source: hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Hedge Fund Harbinger Buys Nearly 5%of Cablevision
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Harbinger Capital Management, an activist hedge fund has accumulated a 4.9% stake in Cablevision Systems Corp, according to The Wall Street Journal.In a regulatory filing, Harbinger said that it had bought 11.45 million of Cablevision’s Class A shares. Harbinger, now Cablevision’s fifth biggest shareholder, was not present at meetings with the company’s top executives and large investors this week, the Journal said, citing a person familiar with the meetings….
Original Source: hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Wood-en returns - hedge fund SRM all but evaporates
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Former UBS prop trader Jon Wood tends to react with aggression when outsiders ask questions about the performance at his Monaco-based hedge fund, SRM Global. Any conversation is usually accompanied by a threat to reach for the nearest lawyer.
Which is pretty self-defeating, since the effect is to goad the media into repeating its enquiries…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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- Further reading
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Elsewhere on Friday,
- “What adjective would you use to describe someone who kept on buying bank stocks even as they fell and fell and fell?”
- How bond insurers will benefit from the ARS scandal.
- Downfall, CDO edition.
- “Americans are conditioned to think of Europe as a giant bureaucracy dotted with some old churches and nice restaurants…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
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15 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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