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Hedge funds outperform equity benchmarks on financial short-selling
The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed global ... Short-selling of financial stocks emerged as the best...
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EFG hedge fund unit feels the heat from investors
It seems that even being one of the ... This is one of the first insights into ... Marble Bar’s three main funds ended last year ... Marble Bar’s investors took about 45% of their ... By contrast, he said many funds with 60 ... Nevertheless, Hayeem said Marble Bar would do the...
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Hedge funds increase punts against UK betting firms
In a wry turn of events, hedge funds ... William Hill and Ladbrokes are among UK bookmakers ... Short sellers sell borrowed shares, betting their price ... Punters have increased their short positions in William ... London's Odey Asset Management revealed in exchange ... The bookmaker's shares have fallen 2.3% since the...
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Some hedge funds halt reporting as performance slumps
More than one in every four hedge funds ... A study by Olympia Capital Management, a French ... About 900 funds with more than $50m each ... Database Eurekahedge reported last week that 491 hedge ... HFR reported on a different set of hedge ... Hedge funds could also stop reporting performance to...
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Analysts welcome Gruebel appointment as UBS chief
Analysts have welcomed the appointment of Oswald Gruebel ... Peter Thorne, analyst at Swiss brokerage Helvea, applauded ... Christoph Avenarius, chief of hedge fund research at...
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Private equity assets under management grow to $2.5 trillion
A slowdown in distributions to investors helped private ... Stronger than expected fundraising in the first half ... The figure, which includes real estate funds of ... The overall rise for private equity is less ... Dry powder – uninvested capital – rose 3%...
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Investors pull plug on funds of funds
Investors spooked by market gyrations and fraud allegations ... Many managers were unable to avoid losses or, ... Advocates contend there is life yet in the ... Open-ended funds of funds, which numbered about 2,400 ... Stephen Smith, managing director of funds and alternative...
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GLG assets fall 39% following market upheaval
GLG Partners, a publicly traded asset manager in ... GLG's posted $629.7m (€492.5m) in losses last year, ... Assets under management fell to $15bn for the ... GLG had net inflows of $800m in the ... But the asset manager received a $1.6bn allocation ... Bets on the market that soured amid market...
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GAM's assets halve as wealthy investors take fright
The London-based asset management unit of Bank Julius ... Assets at GAM, which focuses largely on hedge ... This was a sharper fall than both the ... GAM hinted it had made severe cuts to ... He added that about 40% of GAM's products ... Of hedge funds, he said: "As equity markets...
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Hedge funds post modest gains
The average hedge fund is up more than ... Tudor Investment Corp’s BVI Global fund, with $10bn...
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AbCap makes next step in restructuring drive
Asset manager Absolute Capital Management Holdings is restructuring ... Absolute Capital Management is rebranding its fund management ... The firm's Absolute Germany hedge fund, which invests ... The £2.4m (€2.7m) company has also combined the ... In calculating performance fees for each Xanthus fund...
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News analysis: Will distressed debt undo Yale?
Yale University Endowment David Swensen, regarded as one ... Swensen has said the $17bn (€13bn) Yale endowment ... The rationale for this view looks respectable. Credits ... But this is not the first time investors ... Funds focusing on distressed securities were expected to...
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Cash disappears as the industry loses $384bn
The popular view of hedge fund performance for ... Overall, funds lost 18.3% on their investments, one ... Antonio Borges, chairman of industry body the Hedge ... Although hedge funds regained some ground last month, ... However, computer-driven investing across capital markets made about...
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Investors withdrew record $152bn from hedge funds in final quarter
Investors withdrew a record $152bn (€116.6bn) from the ... The situation could have been far worse if...
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Hedge funds scale back distressed debt investments
Hedge fund managers have scaled back their distressed ... About 155 hedge fund managers participated in the ... Roughly 78% of respondents said secured loans have ... Oren Cohen, the co-founder of Brownstone Asset Management, ... Cohen said: “People see that’s the only place...
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GLG hires Pendragon founders
Large London hedge fund GLG Partners is hiring ... Emmanuel Roman, GLG's co-chief executive, said that the ... Much of the few hundred million dollars in ... The move marks an about face for the ... Around that time, Pendragon managed more than $3bn ... Dismal performance, investor withdrawals and increasing regulatory burdens...
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Hedge fund industry endures worst year to date in 2008
The hedge fund industry endured its worst year ... Energy and materials represented the worst performing strategy ... Short bias emerged as, by far, the best...
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Study uncovers large inconsistencies in Madoff investments
Documents showing details of Bernard Madoff's funds highlighted ... A study of the documents by New York ... The report said the "small steady consistent returns" ... Madoff bought shares in about 50 large US ... Infovest said: "It is implausible that the S&P...
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Hedge funds dealt fresh blow as retail rival beats benchmark
The UK's largest retail fund beat its benchmark ... The £8bn (€8.6bn) high income fund run by ... Before fees, this put the fund 8.8 percentage ... Woodford made money last year through investments in ... Meanwhile, hedge funds, which are generally smaller than ... Even allowing for the maximum fees that an...
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GLG halts dividends as hedge fund industry totters
GLG Partners has suspended dividend payments and given ... “We have decided at this time that it ... Hedge funds globally are down more than 23%...
