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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Pooled funds of hedge funds made a 4.0 percent loss in the first quarter of 2008, their lowest return since BNY Mellon Asset Servicing began measuring their performance in 2003, according to new data published by the bank ... - [Read more]

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Statistics released today by BNY Mellon Asset Servicing show that pooled fund of hedge funds failed to achieve positive returns during the first quarter of 2008. Over this period the median return for these ... - [Read more]

A Greenwich hedge fund has become ensnared in a legal dispute with one of its investors after refusing to allow the firm to withdraw the $5 million originally invested in the fund. SageCrest LLC, a Greenwich hedge fund that at one point controlled ... - [Read more]

The credit crunch has dented hopes of raising much cash at Londons glitzy hedge fund charity ball tonight, but the group behind the event plans to repeat it on the other side of the Atlantic within a year. Absolute Return for Kids (Ark), the charity ... - [Read more]

Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans. Andrew J. Redleaf, head of the hedge fund Whitebox Advisors, bought several grain elevators from ... - [Read more]

The SEC says hedge funds dont need to count certain derivatives when determining how to report ownership stakes in companies, an opinion that is likely to benefit hedge funds in a closely watched court case. The issue has arisen in litigation ... - [Read more]

American International Group Inc. (AIG) said on Wednesday that it will start investing in new hedge funds through a joint venture with Larch Lane Advisors, a unit of Old Mutual Asset Management that specializes in seeding start-up managers in the $2 ... - [Read more]

LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Throgmorton trust, which recently lost star manager Roger Whiteoak, rose on Wednesday after it appointed BlackRock as manager and said it will use some hedge fund techniques to generate returns.

NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AIG Investments and Larch Lane Advisors LLC today announced that they have formed a joint venture to make seed investments in hedge funds. The joint venture seeks to capitalize on synergies between AIG Investments ... - [Read more]

John Deere dealer Donald Haug Jr. stands in front of one the combines on the lot recently at Haug Implement in Willmar, Minn. Haug would still be taking orders for combines for delivery for the fall harvest but John Deere cut off new orders in mid ... - [Read more]

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