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CQS launches $160 mln
volatility hedge fund
Source: Reuters
UK hedge fund manager CQS said on Thursday it had launched a new
fund that will aim to profit from the volatility that has
gripped global stock markets for much of the past year.
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Hedge funds caught out
as Hurricane Gustav fails to lift oil price
Source: Times Online
Several hedge funds face big financial losses after wrongly
predicting that oil and gas prices would rise as a result of
Hurricane Gustav slamming into the Gulf coast of the US earlier
this week.
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Hedge fund RAB's chief
steps down
Source:
Reuters
Philip Richards, co-founder of hedge fund firm RAB Capital (RAB.L:
Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), is to step down as chief
executive to focus on fund management and will replaced by
Finance Director Stephen Couttie, the company said on Thursday.
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Hedge fund to invest
$500m into carbon capture
Source: Financial Standard
Hedge fund group Och-Ziff is investing $500 million in carbon
capture projects to create tradable greenhouse gas reduction
abatement securities.
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Term of the Day & Related News |
Structured Products
Structured products
are synthetic investment instruments specially created to meet
specific needs that cannot be met from the standardized
financial instruments available in the markets. Structured
products can be used: as an alternative to a direct investment;
as part of the asset allocation process to reduce risk exposure
of a portfolio; or to utilize the current market trend.
Structured investments arose from the needs of companies which
want to issue debt more cheaply. Traditionally, one of the ways
to do this was to issue a convertible bond, that is, debt that
under certain circumstances could be converted to equity. In
exchange for the potential for a higher return (if the equity
value would increase and the bond could be converted at a
profit), investors would accept lower interest rates in the
meantime. However this tradeoff and its actual worth is
debatable, since the movement of the equity value of the company
could be unpredictable.
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Lehman Brothers launches
Dual Income structured product
Source:
Investment Week
Lehman Brothers has brought out its latest structured product
linked to the FTSE 100.
Issue 1 of the Dual Income Plan offers a regular, defined income
for the five-year term.
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IFAs opt to increase portfolio allocation to structured products
Source:
StructuredProductsOnline.com
Over 88% of independent financial advisers (IFAs) have decided
to increase their structured products allocations for client
portfolios during the next year, according to a recent survey
conducted by Keydata Investment Services. The telephone poll,
which took place in early August, asked 50 advisers to indicate
their strategies concerning a range of asset types, rating
whether to increase, maintain, or decrease portfolio allocation.
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Scholarly Article & Related News |
Asset-Based Hedge-Fund Styles and Portfolio Diversification
by William Fung & David A. Hsieh
Asset-based style factors link returns of hedge-fund strategies to observed market prices. They provide explicit and unambiguous descriptions of hedge-fund strategies that tells us both the nature as well as the quantity of risk. Asset-based style factors are key inputs to portfolio construction and for benchmarking hedge-fund performance on a risk-adjusted basis... More...
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Painting
a
rosier
future
through
diversification
Source:
Calgary
Herald
Merrill
Grant
launched
Paint
Direct
15
years
ago,
but
he
has
been
running
paint
stores
for
30
years
and
began
his
career
in
paint
way
before
then
while
helping
his
father
in a
Benjamin
Moore
warehouse.
As a
teenager,
he
met
and
was
immediately
impressed
with
a
paint
salesman
and
set
his
heart
on
being
like
him
when
he
left
school.
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Harvard's
Endowment
Offers
An
Education
in
Asset
Allocation
Source:
The
Wall
Street
Journal
It's
back-to-school
week,
so
let's
do
some
homework
by
studying
the
success
of
Harvard
University's
endowment.
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Book of the Day & Related News |
Book Description
Enables students to
acquire a strong working
knowledge and thorough
understanding of the
rapidly growing field of
financial derivatives.
Ideal for both
undergraduate and
graduate classes on
derivatives, financial
risk management,
futures, or options. |
JPMorgan to End Muni Derivatives
Practice
Source:
Financial-Planning.com
JPMorgan yesterday announced it will
stop structuring interest-rate
derivative products for governmental
municipal issuers, while also
instituting a number of measures
designed to tighten controls across
its tax-exempt capital markets
business.
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Nasdaq OMX bags derivatives
contracts in South Africa and
Columbia
Source:
Finextra.com
Nasdaq OMX is celebrating two
significant contracts in the
international derivatives markets,
specifying the provision of a
Central Clearing Counterparty in
South Africa, and a trading engine
for a new exchange in Columbia.
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Giants and Redskins to Meet Almost as Strangers
Source:
The New York Times
Last month, Michael Strahan was asked to diagram the
Giants’ pass rush that demolished the New England
Patriots in the Super Bowl. Strahan began sketching
boxes — four across — putting himself on the left, Osi
Umenyiora on the right and two teammates in between.
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Hanna Struggles; Local Impacts Difficult to Pinpoint
Source:
The Washington Post
Dry air and moderate wind shear have prevented Tropical
Storm Hanna from strengthening, and in fact as of 11
a.m. she is slightly weaker than earlier this morning,
with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. Still, a more
favorable environment for strengthening could allow
Hanna to reach hurricane strength before making landfall
on the Southeast coast, probably late Friday night or
early Saturday morning.
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