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Rekenthaler Report: The Future of Hedge Funds
What follows are the musings of Morningstar's Vice President of Research and sometime Morningstar columnist John Rekenthaler. The Future of Hedge Funds? With a presentation on this very subject beckoning in late November, I'd better get cracking. Wheremore
OTC Val Appoints Ex-Hedge Fund Quant Bergbusch as CTO
OTC Valuations (OTC Val) has appointed Paul Bergbusch as chief technology officer to lead the vendor?s efforts to introduce its next generation of solutions. He will be engaged in further expanding the coverage for structured products and exoticmore
APAC Greater China hedge fund shut down -manager
HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The APAC Greater China Fund, which at its peak managed $55 million, has shut down after suffering losses, joining a growing number of hedge fund casualties of the global financial crisis. The manager of the Hongmore
Assets at Polish mutual funds drop by half in Oct
WARSAW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Assets under management at Polish mutual funds dropped by half in October from a year earlier, hitting their lowest since March 2006, as local indexes lost a quarter of their value last month, a report showed on Monday. Assetsmore
American Century Investments Hires Neuberger Berman Veteran to Manage Real Estate Strategy
KANSAS CITY -- American Century Investments announces veteran money manager Steven R. Brown will join the firm Nov. 10 as vice president and senior portfolio manager for the $880 million American Century Real Estate Fund. Effective Nov. 17, Brown willmore
Norway Fin Min:This Will Be Hard Year For Global Pension Fund
OSLO -(Dow Jones)- Norway's Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said Monday that 2008 will be tough for the country's vast global pension fund due to financial market turbulence. Speaking in a BBC interview, Halvorsen said: 'This will be a hard year formore
30 Seconds with Ross Breedt: CEO, PSG Fund Management
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Make Loans From Govt Pension Funds Easier, MP Demands
The Namibian (Windhoek) THE high rate of inflation and soaring food and fuel costs have put a heavy burden on Namibians, including civil servants and political office bearers, and they should be allowed to take out loans against their Government pensionmore
Confidence in hedge funds badly shaken
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A Frightful Month for Hedge Funds
October proved another scary month for hedge funds. Fund managers shed 5.4 percent of their value last month, The New York Post reported citing data from Hedge Fund Research. In September and October, the industry has lost more than 10 percent, and it ismore
What Crisis? Some Hedge Funds Are Gaining
Bernard V. Drury is a rarity on Wall Street: a hedge fund manager who is making money rather than losing it. While most hedge funds are sinking into red this year and unsettling the markets in the process, a handful of them are posting spectacular gains,more
Users offered SaaS asset management
FrontRange and Computercenter team up By Maxwell Cooter Techworld FrontRange has come to the rescue of techies for whom asset management is a chore too far. The company had teamed up with Computercenter to offer asset management using software as amore
Pension Fund Industry's Reluctance Irks Govt
New Era (Windhoek) The unwelcome reaction by the pension fund industry towards the changes to the amended Domestic Asset Requirements has clearly rattled Government cages, as could be seen from Government's comments, sometimes unsolicited, throughout themore
N184 Billion Pension Funds Invested in Capital Market
The Director General of National Pension Commission (PenCom), the agency managing the new pension scheme which began in 2004, Mr. Muhammad K. Ahmad, has said that N184.3 billion was invested in the embattled capital market as long term fund. According tomore
Sykes: How to set up a hedge fund
Ego-on legs, Tim Sykes, tells us how in 10 easy steps. A bit of background first - Sykes is the precocious trader who, at the tender age of 22, started his own fund, Cilantro. The fund closed in 2007, down by about a third after four years, according tomore
Top 100 mutual funds
Largest actively managed U.S. equity funds that are trailing the S&P 500 Index, $ in billions Click column headers to sort fields Fund name Assets YTD* vs. S&P 500 American Funds Growth Fund of America $157.10 -37.69 -2.87 Fidelity Contrafund 62.8 -36.76more
UPDATE 1-APAC Greater China hedge fund shut down -manager
By Jeffrey Hodgson and Saeed Azhar HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The APAC Greater China Fund, which at its peak managed $55 million, has shut down after suffering losses, joining a growing number of hedge fund casualties of the global financialmore
edgeweek Comment: Emanuel's appointment offers reassurance to hedge fund industry
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[external] APAC Greater China hedge fund shut down -manager
HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The APAC Greater China Fund, a Hong Kong-based hedge fund which at its peak managed $55 million, is being shut down after losing almost 16 percent this year, its manager said on Monday. The fund, managed by formermore
UPDATE 1-APAC Greater China hedge fund shut down -manager
By Jeffrey Hodgson and Saeed Azhar HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The APAC Greater China Fund, which at its peak managed $55 million, has shut down after suffering losses, joining a growing number of hedge fund casualties of the global financialmore
PIMCO favors China, Singapore
By Chikafumi Hodo and Masayuki Kitano TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian markets face uncertainty in the global crisis and countries such as China and Singapore with the firepower to fight back will come out on top, the managing director of PIMCO's Asia-Pacificmore
Hedge funds: Yes, we really can!
For a man who used Joe the hedge fund manager as a spur against his opponent, Barrack Obamas first major political appointment is certainly perplexing. From Finalternatives (and yes, theyve spelled Rahm Emanuels name wrong): Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.)more
World Bank aims to structure joint climate change products with pension funds
The World Bank is in discussion with a group of the worlds biggest public sector pension funds about ways to structure joint investment products that could channel billions of dollars into the fight against climate change. Kenneth Lay, vice president andmore
Hedgeweek Comment: Emanuel's appointment offers reassurance to hedge fund industry
US president-elect Barack Obama has asked Rahm Emanuel, a one-time aide in the Clinton White House, to be his chief of staff - a choice that is likely to reassure hedge fund managers, even though the Illinois congressman's relationship with themore
PIMCO favors China, Singapore
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian markets face uncertainty in the global crisis and countries such as China and Singapore with the firepower to fight back will come out on top, the managing director of PIMCO's Asia-Pacific operations said on Monday. PIMCO, themore
Russian Hedge Funds Face Threat of Closure
eFinancial News reports: The closure of a Russian hedge fund run by Florin Investment Management has led to fears many more could go under as investors flee emerging markets. It is estimated about 70 hedge funds are operating in Russia and themore
SilverStreet prepares for Hedge Fund consolidation
FT reports: SilverStreet Capital, a $600m (382m, 470m) London-based fund of hedge funds manager has unveiled ambitious plans to lead consolidation in the battered alternatives sector. The firm, launched in April 2007, has secured a coup by luring Alanmore