Hedge Funds

Hedge funds have more than $2,900bn under management, according to a survey of valuers of their assets, sharply up on last year in spite of the credit crunch and a series of high-profile problems in the industry. The survey of assets under ... - [Read more]

June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds that farm out clients money to other managers are being propped up this year with returns as high as 29 percent from firms run by traders John Paulson and Philip Falcone . Their profits have softened losses or ... - [Read more]

What if you could get an insurance policy for your portfolio? Well, you can -- smart investors have been doing it for years. Its called hedging, and believe it or not, its not too expensive or too complicated for you to put to work for your ... - [Read more]

LONDON (Reuters) - Man Group, the worlds largest listed hedge fund firm, has agreed to pay $50 million (25 million pounds) in cash for a 25 percent stake in Nephila Capital, a fund firm that focuses on insurance instruments such as weather derivatives.

June 6, 2008 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission sided yesterday with two big activist hedge funds on a key issue in their heated legal dispute with railroad giant CSX Corp. CSX alleges that the funds - The Childrens Investment Fund and 3G ... - [Read more]

Hedge funds and big Wall Street banks are taking advantage of loopholes in federal trading limits to buy massive amounts of oil contracts, according to a growing number of lawmakers and prominent investors, who blame the practice for helping to push ... - [Read more]

June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Man Group Plc , the worlds largest publicly traded hedge fund manager, tripled assets managed for Japanese clients since 2006 as a stagnant domestic stock market swelled demand for alternative investments. Man reached its goal ... - [Read more]

Requirements: Ability to write project scope and requirements documents Experience working with commodities, preferably Metals or Energy Basic Analysis modelling (Class, Sequence & Activity diagrams) Basic SQL (selects and joins, data table... Equity ... - [Read more]

A painted car by edgy British artist Tracey Emin and a role in actress Uma Thurmans next movie were among items set to be auctioned off Thursday night by Londons hedge-fund elite, gathered for the ARK charity dinner. More than 1,000 guests were ... - [Read more]

Lee Shyan-Yuan, one of several commissioners at Taiwans Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), believes attracting hedge funds to the market would be a smart move. He is courting hedge funds to invest in Taiwan and raise money from investors in ... - [Read more]

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