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A primer: Hedge funds, private equity, venture capital
Source:
USA Today
Q: Can you explain the difference between hedge funds and
venture capital?
A: You've probably heard of many types of alternative
investments, such as hedge funds, private-equity funds and
venture capital funds. While all three are pools of money used
to invest, they have very different objectives and target
different opportunities.
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Australian hedge fund thrives amid subprime turmoil
Source:
The International Herald Tribune
HFA Holdings, an Australian hedge fund manager with more than $3
billion invested, said Thursday that its funds had benefited
from the turmoil in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
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Hedge funds threatened in world turmoil
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
The US markets plummeted for the sixth consecutive day as
traders became increasingly rattled that the continuing global
turmoil may be about to claim a large hedge fund as its latest
victim. More...
How safe is India from hedge fund redemption pressure?
Source:
Moneycontrol
Neil Wilson, Managing Editor of hedgefundintelligence.com
doesn't expect large scale redemptions, though, he said there
are problems in some funds.
He however added, that unless investors face the need to remove
money from markets like India, because of liquidity problems
elsewhere, he does not see them removing money very quickly out
of India.
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Investors and Hedge Funds Shift Interest
Source:
Yahoo! Finance
Combating the Drops in a Dropping Market Maybach Financial Group
It's official: The Toronto stock market surrendered the last of
its gains for the year Thursday.
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Iraq Gets Its First Hedge Fund
Source:
Finextra.com
Some of you probably read that headline and thought it may be
more useful if Iraq could build a few hedges around their
gardens first as, in this war-torn region, it's hard to imagine
a hedge fund being of much use. Nevertheless, with
infrastructure that is hardly working and an embryonic
government, we find that Iraq Fund Management launched on August
1 to coincide with the opening of the Iraqi Stock Exchange. More...
Journal hedge fund column misses the point
Source:
BloggingStocks
Thursday's Wall Street Journal ran [subscription required] an
interesting "Ahead of the Tape" column discussing the issues
pertinent to multistrategy hedge funds. Although I certainly
understand where Henny Sender is coming from in the piece, I
believe the writer's article has several key problems.
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Goldman Sachs acts to lure more investors to hedge fund
Source:
The Los Angeles Times
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. waived fees to draw investors to
its Global Equity Opportunities hedge fund after stock-market
losses wiped out $1.4 billion of assets this month, according to
a person with direct knowledge of the terms. More...
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