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4 SEC chiefs warn on
hedge funds
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Four former Securities and Exchange Commission chairmen said
Wednesday that too little was known about the activities of
hedge funds and leveraged buyout firms. The four warned of a
possible crisis if regulators don't rein in the fast-growing
investment vehicles.
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CSI for hedge-fund
blowups
Source:
CNN Money
Growing concern about the effects hedge-fund blowups can have on
global financial markets has renewed a push for tighter controls
on the $1.6 trillion industry.
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The heavy
brigade
Source:
Economist.com
PEER STEINBRÜCK, the German finance minister, will not give up.
“Don't believe everything you hear from New York and London,” he
told The Economist. He was referring to differences of opinion
on how to reduce the risk that the $1.6 trillion hedge-fund
industry poses to global financial stability. More...
Hedge Fund Management
Style Analysis: 'Holding- Based' vs. 'Return- Based' Approaches
Source:
SeekingAlpha
With the release of Andrew Lo’s recent paper on a new way to
calculate alpha, this article by Edhec on style analysis seems
apropos. As you may recall, Lo argues that the true measure of
active management is a manager’s ability to correctly forecast
security price movements and to express those forecasts in the
portfolio. The key metric, therefore, is the correlation between
portfolio positions and price movements.
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Incremax Wins
Microsoft Partner Competency Award for Hedge Fund Industry
Expertise
Source:
PR Web
Incremax, a Greater New York business-savvy technology
consultancy of Microsoft product solutions, is proud to be
awarded Microsoft's Third Quarter New York/New Jersey Area
Partner Award for Competency in understanding the scalable
infrastructure, information productivity and custom business
applications that drive both Fixed-Income and Equity Hedge Fund
management firms.
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Merkel calls for
progress on hedge funds, Doha trade round
Source:
The Nation
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reiterated her call
for increased transparency among hedge funds and for progress in
the stalled Doha round of world trade talks. More...
Hedge fund becomes LBO
matchmaker
Source:
MarketWatch
Which companies could be snapped up next in the private-equity
buyout boom that's sweeping the stock market?
A look at some of the holdings of the Private Value Arbitrage
Fund LP, a $30 million hedge fund run by Helzberg Angrist
Capital LLC, may offer some clues.
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Why hedge fund
managers outearn doctors
Source:
BloggingStocks
A few months ago a doctor asked me why hedge fund managers make
more money than he and his colleagues. After all, Doctor, when
used before a name, is capitalized, while hedge fund manager
isn't. While I'm joking about the capitalization -- it does
reflect the much greater level of societal acclamation doctors
receive from the moment they set their minds on an MD to their
obituaries. So why doesn't societal acclamation translate into
money?
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