Hedge funds

View of the Day: Better climate for hedge funds

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

The hedge fund sector looks to be going through the early stages of recovery, says Huw van Steenis at Morgan Stanley

Hedge Fund Tweet: Somewhat surreal video. Welcome to the Stella Artois Hedge Fund - http://bit.ly/8LHZZy

The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

hedgefundfocus: Somewhat surreal video. Welcome to the Stella Artois Hedge Fund - http://bit.ly/8LHZZy

Hedge funds set for rebound to pre-crisis level-MS

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Investment flows into hedge funds have turned net positive and the sector is heading towards having assets under management of around $1.75 trillion by year-end, according to Morgan Stanley.

Hedge funds may get $11 billion frozen at Lehman

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers International (Europe), where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new plan.

Hedge funds may get $11 bln frozen at Lehman

Sify (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Lehman Brothers International (Europe), where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers

Will ETFs Replace Hedge Funds? Not Just Yet

SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Christopher Holt submits: The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually bang out some sort of recognizable text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. Along the same lines, one might argue that Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are a version of the monkey-at-typewriter theorem because they...

Check Out Hedge Funds' 50 Favorite Stocks

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Goldman Sachs (GS) is out with a new overview of the hedge fund industry, examining several aspects of what funds are doing. For example, it notes that while hedge funds have generally "re-risked", they also continue to diversify their holdings. You can see here, for example, that the density of the average hedge fund's top 10 holdings has been falling all year. As for what they're buying...

Hedge Fund Tweet: Russia 'is now a criminal state" - Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital, following the death of his Lawyer in custody - http://bit.ly/7yVVwy

The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | yesterday

hedgefundfocus: Russia 'is now a criminal state" - Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital, following the death of his Lawyer in custody - http://bit.ly/7yVVwy

Hedge Fund Execs to Focus on Restoring Investor Confidence at Seminar

Latest News Current Issue (Free subscription) | yesterday

Law firm Walkers is hosting a seminar on Dec. 2 in New York.

• Industry Experts Discuss Building Investor Confidence and Positioning Investment Funds Industry for Recovery - PR News Wire

Ernst & Young LLP Named Best Accounting Firm to Hedge Fund Industry

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP has been named Best Accounting Firm of 2009 at the inaugural Hedge Fund Manager Week US Service Provider Awards. It beat out four other finalists for the prestigious award at a ceremony at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York.

Hedge Fund Appaloosa Q3: Buys BBT, BEE, C, GKK, HIG, MPG, MSFT, NCT,

GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

David Tepper of Appaloosa Management did it right in both ways. He was heavily in oil in the first half of 2008, and did not own any financials. Then in 2009, he got into financials quickly, and participate the upside. Now he is heavy with financials. This is his Q3 buys and sells. Read more » »

The SEC's New CDS Enforcement Plan, Is Another Subsidy To Hedge Funds

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday

It's been apparent for some time now that the Securities and Exchange Commission was preparing to crack down on the use of inside information by traders in credit default swaps. Today the head of enforcement more or less made it official. "The days of insider-trading scrutiny being focused almost solely on the equity markets are now gone,” SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami said today...

Hedge Funds Gold Update

Hedge Fund Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hedge Funds Gold Update Big Hedge Funds Investing More and More in Gold Earlier this year we reported the trend of hedge funds investing in gold (see this story ). Hedge funds are concerned that government efforts to stabilize the economy will have a weakening effect on U.S. and European currencies. In economic uncertainty, gold is often seen as a safe and profitable investment. John Paulson is preparing...

Hedge-Fund Giants Get the Gold Bug

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

The once-eschewed asset is drawing the smart money as inflation fears rise. "I can't remember in 20 years so many respected investors focused on a single strategy," says one observer.

Hedge Fund Manager Was Just Messing Around When He Said He Was Going To "Face-F*ck" Someone

DealBreaker (Free subscription) | yesterday

Once again, Mark Lowe, the Nomos Capital founder being sued by IR Jordan Wimmer for, among other things, trying to kill her ( several times ), hiring hookers to work as investor relations girls, forcing Wimmer to be present while he received lap dances, having an Asian fetish, and making dumb blonde jokes, has once again been forced to defend his sense of humor. Last week it was over something he...

Indian real estate: Boom or Bubble?

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...