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Hedge Fund: a mutual fund that takes considerable risks, including heavy investment in unconventional instruments, in the hope of generating great profits; Hedge Fund definition on BNET »

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6 Tips to Protect You from hedge fund Predators: Feel terrorized by hedge fund activists? The Conference Board can help. The group's Governance Center is in the final stages of issuing a report explaining the threats and offering CEOs and directors ways to avoid unwanted takeovers. About 9,000 hedge funds controlling $1.8 trillion in assets are...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Peter Galuszka, hedge fund; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Liverpool's Hicks in Talks With hedge funds: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Liverpool FC's co-owner is talking to hedge funds to help him raise funds to buy the football club and start building a new stadium, the Daily Telegraph reported on Monday. The U.S. billionaire, who wants to buy out the 50 percent ...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Liverpool, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-05-05
The CEO hedge fund Scourge: For under-performing CEOs, hedge funds can be a frightful scourge that can force board changes resulting in their ouster. Yet, the perennial debate about hedge fund regulation is taking on a new urgency since some are being blamed for contributing mightily to the sub prime mess and credit squeeze. ...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Peter Galuszka, hedge fund; Blog posts 2008-04-16
U.S. Treasury: hedge funds Should Boost Disclosures: By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers should improve disclosures of hard-to-value assets and give investors public company-style performance reports to bolster market stability, two U.S. Treasury committees recommended on Tuesday. The private-sector panels, in drafting best-practices guides, said...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Asset management, hedge fund, Richard Blumenthal, asset, U.S. Department of Treasury, volatility, best practice, Washington, regulator, annual reports, accounting, financial, pension fund, chairman, financial system, allocation, valuation, pe; News items 2008-04-15
hedge fund Managers Set New Payout Records in 2007: BOSTON (Reuters) - A handful of the world's top hedge fund managers took home 10-figure paychecks last year that set records for the highest-ever payouts on Wall Street. John Paulson, who ran a medium-sized hedge fund until last year, ranks as the loosely...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, payout, fund manager, trader, paycheck, Boston, pension fund, housing market, Thomson Reuters Corp., asset, bank, survey, strategy, Web site, Web; News items 2008-04-16

U.S. hedge fund Oversight Needs Teeth, Say Critics: By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics blasted a Treasury Department call for the $1.8 trillion hedge fund industry to better police itself, saying voluntary guidelines did little to protect investors and regulate the pools of capital. Instead, the guidelines should be mandatory...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, U.S. Department of Treasury, SEC, best practice, investor, asset, mortgage-backed security, annual reports, regulation, Washington, financial statement, agency, pension fund, mutual fund, standards, Thomson Reuters Corp., risk ma; News items 2008-04-15
HSBC Rebel Urges Independent Adviser For U.S. Arm: LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC (HSBA) is underestimating problems at its troubled U.S. consumer finance arm, a rebel shareholder said on Monday and called on the bank to appoint an independent financial advisor to consider options for the unit. Activist hedge fund investor Knight...; Tags: Asset, Bank, Advisor, HSBC Finance, Asset Management, Financial Services, Investment, Hedge Fund; News items 2008-05-12
Lehman to Buy Stakes in hedge fund Managers: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH) is planning to invest up to $1 billion in a fund it will use to buy stakes in hedge fund managers, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The fund is expected to raise roughly...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Fund, Lehmanbrothers, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-14
Fortress Posts Loss, Stock Price Falls: BOSTON (Reuters) - Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG) reported a quarterly loss on Thursday and its share price fell sharply after its hedge fund business suffered in turbulent market conditions. The 10-year-old company, one of only a handful of publicly traded...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Financial accounting, Fortress Investment Group LLC, hedge fund, quarterly loss, private equity company, private equity, stock price, Boston, stock, asset, Thomson Reuters Corp., earnings, net income, revenue, analyst, performance; News items 2008-05-08
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Benefit or Threat?: Just when CEOs thought they had a handle on secretive and powerful hedge funds, they must consider a quieter but even bigger monster -- Sovereign Wealth Funds. These government-owned funds, including ones in China, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Singapore, represent more than $2.5 trillion in global assets,...; Tags: Financial services, Regulations, benefit, Peter Galuszka, Sovereign-Wealth Funds, SWF, hedge fund, government, investment; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Meriwether's hedge fund Let Investors Out, Staff Go: BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge-fund manager John Meriwether is letting investors exit his global macro fund after the roughly $300 million portfolio lost 14 percent this year, a person familiar with the fund said on Tuesday. The nearly 30 investors in the 5-year-old JWM...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, hedge fund, investor, Boston, payroll, Thomson Reuters Corp., bond, asset, performance, stock; News items 2008-04-29
hedge fund Manager Paulson Earns $3.7 Billion: LONDON (Reuters) - Bets on a U.S. housing crisis earned hedge fund manager John Paulson $3.7 billion in 2007, ahead of industry legend George Soros and 2006's highest-paid manager James Simons, according to Alpha Magazine. Paulson, whose bet that investment grade mortgage bonds...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, hedge fund, London, Thomson Reuters Corp., finance, industry; News items 2008-04-16
Bayou Co-founder Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge sentenced the co-founder of the defunct hedge fund Bayou Group to 20 years in prison on Monday for his role in a scheme that cheated investors out of more than $400 million. Samuel Israel III, 48, pleaded...; Tags: Investment, hedge fund, co-founder, investor, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-04-14
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, hedge fund, analysis, performance; 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, Investment, Financial services, Performance management, asset pricing, hedge fund, asset, performance evaluation, performance, strategy; Case studies
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, financial market, hedge fund, financial; 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, performance; 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
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
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, mutual fund, volatility, strategy, asset; White papers