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Research - Risk spillover among hedge funds - The role of redemptions and fund failures:
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By Benjamin Klaus and Bronka Rzepkowski European Central Bank Abstract This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We find that risk spillover is signifi...
The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
hedgefundfocus: Prince William, the future King of England, is to become president of charitable group 100 Women in Hedge Funds - http://bit.ly/3SkhRx
The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Bloomberg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Tan Tien Leong, the former fund manager at Millennium Capital Partners LP, plans to start a commodity hedge fund in January.
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Trader Mark submits: I keep looking for something that marks at least an intermediate term top in gold, i.e. a "magazine cover" indicator, like when everyone is on the same side of the trade and even your barber starts talking up gold stocks. This doesn't mean the thesis is not correct in the long run, but let's keep an eye out. The latest bit of "piling on" in the gold trade comes...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York-based Galleon sold its complete holding of 5.27 million shares, or 7% of the Indian firm, at Rs485 ($10.4) each, Bombay Stock Exchange data showed on Friday.
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BAM Investor becomes first institutional grade financial model to so openly announce its market predictions and issue a self-imposed performance challenge, attracting a frenzy of media attention and a global following on Twitter (PRWeb Nov 19, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/twitter/stockmarketcrash/prweb3231504.htm
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times ( NYSE: NYT ). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two months. The activist hedge fund that spent more than a half-billion accumulating nearly 20 percent of the publishing company’s stock in 2007 now owns less than 15 percent —14.64 percent, to be exact, based on the number of shares outstanding on Oct....
DealBook (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Nexar Capital Group, a fund of hedge funds firm formed in September, told clients that new transparency initiatives, lower fees and other investor-friendly trends will combine to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for investors in the asset class.
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hedge Fund Secondary Market Private Equity Looks to Buy Illiquid Hedge Fund Stakes Private equity firms are among the potential investors in the hedge fund secondaries market. [More...]
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mike Kane submits: There are some things in this world that baffle us. One of them is how people who can flush billions of dollars down the toilet get a second chance. Case in point: Kenneth Griffin, who runs Citadel Investment Group. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Griffin lost investors over $8 billion last year, with a 55% loss in their main fund offered to clients. Now he is on a globe...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
FINalternatives submits: The global hedge fund industry grew for the sixth-straight month in October, as inflows easily outpaced performance losses. Investors added $10.2 billion in new money to hedge funds last month, Eurekahedge reports, while the industry lost $2.4 billion on the markets. The industry’s total assets now stand at $1.45 trillion. Complete Story »
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
FINalternatives submits: Hedge funds shed 0.25% in October as volatile markets inflicted a rare monthly loss on the industry. The RBC Hedge 250 Index is up 17.2% this year, according to estimated returns. The index was led last month by fixed-income arbitrage funds, which rose 2.75%, and convertible arbitrage funds, which added 2.16%. Complete Story »
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Hedge funds posted a slight gain for the month as market reversals muted performance. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index ("Broad Index") finished up 0.13% for the month, bringing year to date performance to 15.11% through October 31, 2009.
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neilsamsung | 25/09/2009
Property prices are rising fast as the tech boom spreads across the country. When Farallon Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, and its joint-venture partner, Indiabulls, snapped up an 11-acre property in central Mumbai in March 2005 for $54.5 million an acre, the purchase was called an act of idiocy by local developers. A few months later, when the same joint venture offered $95.5 million an acre...
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