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The (Long) Weekender

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Softly, softly

- Existentialism for investment banking fees

- Merrill’s surprise CDO writedown, revisited

- A (intra)web of short-selling for the SEC

- Kenneth Rogoff orders a whopper

- Goldman orders champagne, or bud?

- From the desk of David Einhorn……
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 16:02
Shoreline Team Takes Hedge Fund Cup In Annual Regatta

Things didn’t look good for the Shoreline Trading Group team at the beginning of this year’s Hedge Fund Regatta.
The 3/16th-inch safety cord had snapped, sending Ned Glenn, Merrill Lynch corporate compliance lawyer by day, mastman by evening, into New York Harbor. But the team, sponsored by the prime broker, raced through the adversity to capture the 2008 Hedge Fund Cup.

Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 11:14
VP Fixed Income Derivatives Product Control / Ashton Lane Group / New York , NY

Ashton Lane Group /New York , NYManagement of a team responsible for the accurate and timely P&L and risk reporting for a number of Fixed Income portfolios.

Responsibilities:

•Deliver accurate and timely daily P&L and Greeks risk reporting, for Fixed Income and Vanilla Interest Rate Derivatives portfolios
•Primary product focus will be Interest Rate Swaps, FRAs, Rate Locks, Futures, Treasuries, Exchange Traded Options.

Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 9:50
Equity Derivatives Documentation Analyst / Ashton Lane Group / New York , NY

Ashton Lane Group /New York , NYExcellent opportunity within the Legal and Compliance Department of a global investment bank

Responsibilities:

•Assist Legal Team with structured products, retail, and alternative investment programs.
•Draft offering memoranda, closing documents, and distribution agreements relating to the issuance of structured products.
•Facilitate the derivatives structuring process by identifying issues relating to new products and coordinating with internal/external counsel, structurers, traders, and salespersons to resolve them.

Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 9:44
Harbinger Increases Cablevision Stake, Seeks Meeting

Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital Management is upping the stakes in a potential battle with New York-area cable television provider Cablevision Systems.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 9:06
Superwoman Cans Funds Sapping Her Strength

Bramdean Asset Management’s listed fund of hedge funds is doing away with its less-super investments.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 9:05
Another Hedge Fund Fights Delphi Over GM Loan

Delphi Corp. has a second hedge fund thorn in its side.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 8:05
Conn. Fund Of Hedge Funds Opens Third China Office

A Connecticut fund of hedge funds is opening its third office in China, deep in the country’s earthquake-scarred interior.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 8:04
European Energy Hedge Funds Soar

Many hedge funds have suffered from the downturn in commodities prices. Not so European energy hedge funds.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 8:03
Commodities Valuations / Price Testing / Ashton Lane Group / New York , NY

Ashton Lane Group /New York , NYWithin a small team, provide complex trade pricing and valuation review within a major investment bank

Responsibilities:

•Analysis of complex trades and valuation of exotic commodity products
•Price testing of commodity portfolios covering all individual asset classes (crude oil, Distillates, Power, Natural Gas, NGLs) as well as hybrid derivatives.
•Development of pricing procedures

Original Source: jobs.seekingalpha.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 7:47
Hedge Fund Buys Into Trucking Agency

In a Reglatory filing with the SEC, multibillion-dollar hedge fund, Tontine Associates, has bought 5% of trucking giant YRC, equaling 2.97 million shares of YRC common stock, for more than $48 million….
Original Source: hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 7:03
Thames River Profit Up 44%

London hedge fund manager Thames River Capital boosted profits by almost half in the year ended last March, according to firm filings.
read more…
Original Source: www.finalternatives.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 6:09
Return of the short financials/long commodities punt?

Much talk today of a(nother) reversal in the fortunes of the short financials/long commodities position - the trade that lined the hedge fund coffers then sent them reeling come July (a la  Harbinger).

The S&P financial index fell 1.1 per cent yesterday while commodities are heading for their biggest weekly gain in 33 years…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 3:38
Further reading

Elsewhere on Friday,

- Under new management.

- A research recap on Jackson Hole ‘07.

- The ECB’s soft bailout.

- “The risk exists that ECB funding is used by banks to originate collateral that some may deem excessively risky in the future.”

- Half the world is in, or on the verge of, a recession…….
Original Source: ftalphaville.ft.com


  22 de August , 2008| hedgefunds | Comments (0) @ 0:39

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