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Taylor Wimpey No Knowledge of Hedge Fund Interest: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Troubled housebuilder Taylor Wimpey TW said on Thursday it had no knowledge of any hedge fund plans to help the company raise needed cash and it was "pretty optimistic" on reaching a deal with its bankers. Taylor Wimpey shares sank by more...; Tags: Bank, Bond, Knowledge, Hedge Fund, Financing, Investment, Financial Services, Financial Accounting; News items 2008-07-03
Hedge-Fund Duo Runs Afoul of Oldest Regulations -- the Criminal Kind: Investors willing to pay two percent in fees and 20 percent of the profits probably deserve whatever happens to them. After all, anyone who expects persistently outsized returns after paying costs like these is probably at least a little delusional. Such returns may happen for a while -- especially thanks...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Regulation, Investor, Investment, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dan Ackman; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Hedge Investors Hunt For Next Blockbuster Strategy: By Laurence Fletcher LONDON (Reuters UK) - Top hedge fund bosses will debate whether an upturn in distressed investing or profitable macro strategies offer 2008's blockbuster trade, just as short subprime was in 2007, when they meet in Monaco this week. GAIM International 2008, held from...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Blockbuster Inc., Investor, Investment, Financial Services, Strategy, Finance, Management; News items 2008-06-15
Hedge Investors Hunt For Next Blockbuster Strategy: By Laurence Fletcher LONDON (Reuters) - Top hedge fund bosses will debate whether an upturn in distressed investing or profitable macro strategies offer 2008's blockbuster trade, just as short subprime was in 2007, when they meet in Monaco this week. GAIM International 2008,...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, hedge fund, upturn, blockbuster, equity, M&A, investor, London, hedge fund manager, strategy, Thomson Reuters Corp., stock, emerging market, volatility, interest rate, CEO, environment, banking, ass; News items 2008-06-15
Transpacific Blames Hedge Funds For Woes: Transpacific Industries Group TPI Ltd's executive chairman Terry Peabody has blamed hedge funds for the waste giant's plummeting stock price.TPI's share price hit an all-time high of $14.30 last July but is now hovering around $7.00 despite booking an 87 per cent rise in this year's first-half profit and...; Tags: Shareholder, Hedge Fund, TPI, Investment, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-06-15

FSA Imposes Short-selling Rules and Rejects Critics: LONDON (Reuters UK) - The financial watchdog imposed new rules on Friday to smooth the process for firms raising cash from rights issues, prompting hedge fund criticism that the move had been rushed in. Investors now need to reveal any short positions over 0.25 percent...; Tags: HBOS Plc., Financial, Hedge Fund, FSA, Financial Services Authority, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services; News items 2008-06-20
Hedge Fund Harbinger Discloses HBOS Short Position: LONDON (Reuters UK) - U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital said it held a 3.3 percent short position, worth about 345 million pounds, in bank HBOS HBOS, under new disclosure rules for companies during rights issues. Two other investors -- Lansdowne Partners and Meditor Capital Management...; Tags: HBOS Plc., Hedge Fund, Harbinger, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-06-23
Hedge Fund Swindler Israel Denied Bail, Jailed: By Paul Thomasch and Matt Daily NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III faced a fresh charge of bail jumping on Thursday and was ordered to jail immediately, one day after his mother convinced him to end a high-profile run...; Tags: Israel, hedge fund, suicide, Massachusetts, Manhattan, Mr., New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., mobile; News items 2008-07-03
Bayou Hedge Fund Manager Believed to Fake Suicide: Report: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Samuel Israel III, the U.S. hedge fund manager convicted of fraud, is now on the run after failing to report to prison to begin serving a 20-year sentence, ABC News reported on its website on Friday. Unnamed U.S. Marshals...; Tags: Investment, hedge fund, co-founder, investor, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-06-12
Hedge Fund Information: This article explains the origin of hedge funds. The year was 1949, WWII just ended, and the world was in a unified celebration. Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist, was working on assignment for Fortune magazine investigating fundamental and technical research on forecasting the stock market. The article reported on a...; Tags: Investment, stock market, hedge fund, stock, forecasting; White papers
Domestic Hedge Funds or Offshore Hedge Funds: This article explains the difference between domestic & offshore hedge funds. A domestic hedge fund is one that is organized within the United States. If the fund is organized in the U.S., all U.S. laws will apply. Domestic hedge funds are engineered to cater to U.S. investors who are liable...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, U.S., income tax, investor, income; White papers
Hedge Fund Performance: This article is explains the performance of hedge funds. When looking at hedge fund performance, there are many factors to consider. Hedge fund managers classify their returns several different ways and it is important to consider all of these before ascertaining a 'real' number. One distinction that is important to...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, hedge fund manager, performance; White papers
Synopsis of Hedge Fund Strategies: This paper gives a run down between the different hedge funds. It is important to understand the differences between the various hedge fund strategies because all hedge funds are not the same investment returns, volatility, and risk vary enormously among the different hedge fund strategies. Some strategies which are not...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, equity, volatility, mutual fund, strategy, asset; White papers
Performance Attribution and Style Analysis: From Mutual Funds to Hedge Funds: Sharpe (1992) proposed an asset class factor model for performance attribution and style analysis of mutual fund managers. The elegance of Sharpe's (1992) intuition was demonstrated empirically by showing that only a limited number of major asset classes were required to successfully replicate the performance of an extensive universe of...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Asset management, Investment, Duke University, asset class, mutual fund, asset, analysis, hedge fund, performance; White papers
Enhanced Hedge Fund Performance via Quantitative Risk Management: This webcast highlights enhanced hedge fund performance via quantitative risk management. Given the current investment climate, analysts within the hedge fund industry are quickly realizing that risk management needs to be an integral part of any successful fund. For investors, measuring and evaluating hedge fund risk beyond purely qualitative methods...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Insightful Corp., hedge fund, risk management, Webcast, investor, technique; Webcasts
Lessons From the Collapse of Hedge Fund, Long-Term Capital Management: Barings, the Russian meltdown, Metallgesellschaft, Procter & Gamble, LTCM. These are all events in the financial markets which have become marker buoys to show us where we went wrong, in the hope that we won't allow quite the same thing to happen again. The common weakness, in these cases, was...; Tags: Financial accounting, hedge fund, financial market, financial; White papers
Performance Evaluation and Conditioning Information: The Case of Hedge Funds: It is common to measure hedge fund performance within the context of static asset pricing models. Because hedge fund managers follow highly opportunistic strategies, however, we argue that it might be inappropriate to assume that the risk and performance measures of hedge funds are constant. Consequently, we estimate abnormal performance...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, Investment, Performance management, asset pricing, hedge fund, asset, hedge fund manager, performance evaluation, performance, strategy; Case studies
Fund of Funds: This article explains the meaning of the term fund of funds. A Fund of Funds, by definition, is one that invests in other hedge funds. Rather than investing in individual securities, a Fund of Funds invests in other hedge funds. Any fund that pools capital together, while utilizing two or...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, equity, asset, security; White papers
Hedge Funds: Protection Against An Aging Bull: This article highlights the study conducted by Van Hedge Fund Advisors, Inc., assisted by the faculty of Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, thereby stating that most mutual funds, the darlings of the investment world, cannot take short positions or use put options. "Hedge" funds, on the other hand,...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Investment, Financial services, Magnum Global Investments Ltd., mutual fund, hedge fund; White papers
An Introduction to Hedge Fund Investing: The term "Hedge Fund" is derived from the practice of investment managers who would take long positions in various securities and then "Hedge" against the risk of a general market decline by taking short positions in other securities. Today, the term usually refers to private investment vehicles that may utilize...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, hedge fund, investment strategy, derivatives, incentive, security, partnership; White papers