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Elsewhere on Wednesday:
- Lehman’s asset sale won’t fly, analyst says.
- Back to the future: are banks getting religion?
- Running a hedge fund is harder than it looks on TV, Ron Insana.
- Will the hedge fund model prove to be broken?
- Trading in a dark pool? Watch for sharks.
- A Chinese venture-capitalist gold rush beyond the Olympics…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Comment and analysis from Wednesday’s FT:
Fannie and Freddie (1): News analysis
Investors in securities backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are locked in a test of wills with the US Treasury, write Michael Mackenzie and Saskia Scholtes. Meanwhile, as mortgage spreads continue to widen, the capital positions of the agencies and weakened banks deteriorate further in what could become a self-reinforcing pattern…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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A Canadian hedge fund manager ordered to pay almost $300m in compensation and fines after defrauding investors is unlikely to pay more than has already been recovered, said lawyers for the receiver of the failed fund. A US judge ordered Paul Eustace, 43, to pay $279m to compensate investors in Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management’s four failed funds for losses while fining him and his company $20.8m…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Are funds of funds growing or shrinking? Are institutions investing in hedge funds or “jumping off the bandwagon”? Apparently, it depends who you ask….
Original Source: allaboutalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Tuolumne River Trust/San Francisco, CAThe Tuolumne River Trust has an opening for an Administrative and Finance Director. Working with the Bookkeeper and Executive Director, this individual will coordinate and help implement fiscal administration, human resource and office management activities. This is a great opportunity to join a motivated team working to take an organization to the next level.
Duties and Responsibilities
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Harbinger Capital Partners, which has launched activist campaigns against several major media companies, may be on the verge of another.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Activist hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management has hired private equity giant The Blackstone Group to help it fight a proposed drug store tie-up.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Kunin Associates/Miami, FLController
Our Miami client is a start-up, well capitalized Commercial Real Estate fund and is looking to hire a Controller. This person will be responsible for the hands on day-to-day accounting for commercial properties including preparing financials, closing the books, reconciling bank accounts, and handling job cost accounting for any build outs on the property. Accounting degree and related industry experience required. Good opportunity to grow with an expanding company.
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Mateo Alpha Strategies/New York, NY (NYC)This role is responsible for all accounting and reporting for the funds including:
• Accounting for and recording of fund level and investment level activity in the fund’s general ledger
• The monitoring of fund’s compliance with the partnership operating agreement terms and investor side letters
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 8:08
Kunin Associates/Fort Lauderdale, FLInternal Audit Manager
Our client is a local Fortune 500 company and is in need of a sharp, professional and polished Internal Audit Manager. This position will perform preliminary planning and establish direction for audits, provide leadership to assigned auditors and manage projects to quality outcomes while meeting established deadlines. CPA with 4-5 years of Big 4 or large corporate experience preferred. 25% travel. Great opportunity for advancement.
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 8:04
Former hedge fund manager Hilary Shane can avoid prison if she stays on the straight and narrow for the next six months.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 7:51
By Steven Krawciw and Irene Aldridge — Prime brokerages and their partner private banks provide hedge fund managers with services ranging from execution to capital introductions to lending.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 7:19
As with most hedge fund indices in July, Hedge Fund Research’s HFRI Indices offer very little in the way of good news.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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PeopleAhead/Waltham, MALogMeIn has an immediate opening for a Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis to work closely with Company’s Controller and European Finance Director in developing plans, reports and controls.
Responsibilities:
• Develop annual budget by working with all levels of Company’s management.
• Develop business model and systems to manage budget process and be able to effectively update forecasts and report on actual vs. budget/forecast results.
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 6:50
Does this look familiar? If so you were probably trying to access your Level III CFA exam results online on Tuesday.
We have no immediate solution. The Institute will not divulge results over the telephone.
If and when you do get through, this calculator may be of use. The CFA has a complex grading matrix and some budding research analysts find the maths a bit of a stretch…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 6:47
Cinci Engineering/Houston, TXBase Compensation: $75-$85K
This position will concentrate on improving and maintaining segment internal controls, preparing and developing improved SEC/external segment reports, preparing and developing improved internal management reports including the monthly Operational Leadership Team reporting package and monthly budget/forecast updates. The position will as time permits participate in developing process improvements targeted at improving the segments performance relative to key performance metrics. This staff position reports to the Segment Controller and will interface on a regular basis with the Corporate Financial Analysis and Reporting group in Houston both on internal controls and reporting.
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 6:26
Gibson Martin Careergoals/Secaucus, NJLarge international company in the Meadowlands seeks a key individual for Financial Analysis work. Great exposure to international business. Email me with any questions, I am quite friendly with the hiring manager. You must have an Accounting degree, though.
You will handle financial analysis reporting and planning function for a Business Unit if an international company. This individual is responsible for overseeing staff, and the mentoring and development of personnel.
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Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 6:16
A troubled Greenwich, Conn., hedge fund has filed for bankruptcy in an effort to head off a forced asset sale.
Windmill Management’s SageCrest Finance and SageCrest II filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bridgeport, Conn. In a letter to investors, the firm said the filing was needed to ensure an orderly liquidation to prevent further losses to investors.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Hedge fund administrator Phoenix Fund Services has added Gerard Quirke from Hermes Pension Management to help lead its expansion.
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Original Source: www.finalternatives.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is best known (now) as the prolific shorter of Lehman Brothers.
His very public evisceration of the bank in May sparked huge falls in its share price. He brought down CFO Erin Callan. His most damning conclusion was that Lehman needed more capital…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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The Greenwich Hyatt will be the scene of the 2008 Global Alpha Forum, the hedge fund event is for both fund managers operating in Connecticut and investors wishing to get to know those managers.The Forum will be held on September 16 and 17, 2008, and will be followed on September 18 by the Green Hedge Trail, an opportunity for institutional investors to visit the offices of some of the world-class funds operating in the Greenwich area, to both meet the funds’ managers and to have some of their questions answered concerning strategies of the various funds included in the Trail….
Original Source: hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
Comments (0) @ 3:09
As you may be aware FT.com’s News by Email service was recently upgraded. But we’ve had a few gremlins, for which we apologise.
If you have had any issues with the FT Alphaville emails- The 6am Cut or The Lunch Wrap - read on:
If you haven’t been receiving your daily doses of FT Alphaville direct to your inbox or Blackberry please click here…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Elsewhere on Tuesday:
- “Fannie and Freddie are being jawboned by the Treasury Department and their new regulatory, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to raise more equity.”
- What was driving the FNM, FRE selloff?- Good bank, bad bank, FNM edition.
- “I came to Freddie Mac as a senior economist in the Financial Research Department in 1986.”……
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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Comment and analysis from Tuesday’s FT:
Insight: David Roche: Don’t expect business as usual at the end of the credit crunchOne thing we can be sure of about the credit crisis is that it will end. Markets hope for a return to business as usual. No such thing will happen. The post-credit crisis world will be a durably altered one compared with the twin decades of disinflation that preceded it…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com
19 de August , 2008| hedgefunds |
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