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Liverpools Hicks in talks with hedge funds - International Herald Tribune
May 5, 2008 10:30:00

LONDON : Liverpool FCs co-owner is talking to hedge funds to help him raise funds to buy the football club and start building a new stadium, the Daily Telegraph reported on Monday. The U.S. billionaire, who wants to buy out the 50 percent of the ... -�[Read�more]

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Algo gone wild adds up to trouble for hedge funds - HedgeCo.net
May 5, 2008 09:25:38

Algo gone wild adds up to trouble for hedge funds
HedgeCo.net,�FL�- 21 hours ago
In the hedge fund world, James Dinan is a big wheel, earning an estimated $470-million (US) last year as the head honcho at $14-billion York Capital ...

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Emergent Preps Private Equity, Hedge Funds - FINalternatives
May 5, 2008 04:24:20

Emergent Preps Private Equity, Hedge Funds
FINalternatives,�NY�- 3 hours ago
Emergent Asset Management is planning a slew of hedge fund and private equity launches in the upcoming months. The British hedge fund manager is prepping a ...
Custom House, Equity Fund Services to Merge Hedgeworld (subscription)
UBS On The Hot Seat Global Money Management
all 3 news articles

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Sprott Hedge Fund IPO May Signal Top of Canada Commodity Rally - Bloomberg
May 5, 2008 04:17:00

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Sprott Asset Management Inc.s initial public offering this week will make a billionaire of the hedge fund companys founder, spurring speculation Canadas decade-old commodities boom is ending, investors say. Eric Sprott s bets ... -�[Read�more]

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Business forum: Sovereign wealth funds are no bugaboo - Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 5, 2008 04:07:06

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Business forum: Sovereign wealth funds are no bugaboo
Minneapolis Star Tribune,�MN�- 3 hours ago
Comprising nearly 40 percent more in assets than all US hedge funds combined (a staggering figure if you think about it), sovereign wealth funds are a true ...
Why the war cry against sovereign funds? GulfNews
all 16 news articles

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Convertible arbitrage funds suffer sixth month of losses - Financial News (subscription)
May 5, 2008 04:05:06

Convertible arbitrage funds suffer sixth month of losses
Financial News (subscription)�- 3 hours ago
Convertible arbitrage hedge funds have suffered six months of losses in a row, their worst run since 2005 when many of them went out of business. ...

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Checking for Storm Damage: How Innovations Have Fared - Wall Street Journal
May 5, 2008 04:02:12

Checking for Storm Damage: How Innovations Have Fared
Wall Street Journal�- 3 hours ago
Hedge funds -- those largely unregulated investment pools for the wealthy -- cemented their popularity when they demonstrated their ability to earn profits ...

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Basso Sings The Blues As Hedge Funds Lose - FINalternatives
May 5, 2008 03:39:12

Basso Sings The Blues As Hedge Funds Lose
FINalternatives,�NY�- 3 hours ago
based Basso Capital Management said Thursday that almost all of its hedge funds finished the first quarter in the red. The firm, which manages $2.57 billion ...
Has market volatility increased opportunities for hedge funds? Easier (press release)
Hedge funds fastest growing AIC sector Investment Week
Basso Capital says facing losses in most strategies Reuters
Wall Street Journal �- FINalternatives
all 10 news articles

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Liverpool FC owner turns to Malcolm Glazers Manchester United backers - Daily Telegraph
May 5, 2008 01:19:00

American sports tycoon Tom Hicks has approached some of the hedge funds that backed Malcolm Glazers takeover of Manchester United to help finance his buyout plans for Liverpool Football Club. Main attraction: Liverpool in action against rivals ... -�[Read�more]

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Liverpool FC owner turns to Malcolm Glazers backers - Telegraph.co.uk
May 4, 2008 23:20:53

Telegraph.co.uk

Liverpool FC owner turns to Malcolm Glazers backers
Telegraph.co.uk,�United Kingdom�- 8 hours ago
By Ben Harrington American sports tycoon Tom Hicks has approached some of the hedge funds that backed Malcolm Glazers takeover of Manchester United to help ...
Och-Ziff Bounces Back In April FINalternatives
Och Ziff pulls in new assets; funds up in April Reuters
UPDATE 1-Och-Ziff pulls in new money in April Reuters
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Structuring a hedge fund for the Middle East - CPI Financial
May 4, 2008 10:03:11

Structuring a hedge fund for the Middle East
CPI Financial,�United Arab Emirates�- 21 hours ago
Just recently, the DFSA recently issued a Hedge Fund Code of Practice which sets out best practice standards for operators of hedge funds in the DIFC. ...
Fund industry fast changing colours GulfNews
all 2 news articles

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PAULSONS FUNDS SLIDE - New York Post
May 4, 2008 08:36:00

May 4, 2008 -- John Paulson, the hedge-fund titan who earned superstar status after earning billions by correctly predicting the collapse of the mortgage market, slipped slightly in April betting Wall Street firms such as Bear Stearns would collapse ... -�[Read�more]

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Mitsubishi to buy into U.S. hedge fund: Nikkei - Reuters
May 4, 2008 00:58:00

TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T: Quote , Profile , Research ), Japans largest trading house, is to buy a stake in U.S. hedge fund manager Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC and set up a joint investment fund, the Nikkei financial daily said on ... -�[Read�more]

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Esse Plans to Raise $750 Million for Fund After Leaving Sempra - Bloomberg
May 4, 2008 00:58:00

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Todd Esse , a co-founder of Sempra Energy Trading, plans to raise as much as $750 million for a natural-gas hedge fund because of rising prices and investor interest in energy, a person familiar with the situation said. Sasco ... -�[Read�more]

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Hedge Funds call bottom on Britains bank shares - Times Online
May 3, 2008 21:54:05

Hedge Funds call bottom on Britains bank shares
Times Online,�UK�- 9 hours ago
Hedge Funds are beginning to bet that shares in Britain’s biggest banks have hit rock bottom, in spite of mounting speculation about further ...

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Speculators are betting on dollars gain against euro - Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2008 06:50:00

Futures traders are betting for the first time since December 2005 that the dollar will gain against the euro. The difference in the number of wagers by hedge funds and other large speculators on a decline in the euro compared with those on a gain ... -�[Read�more]

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JWM losses result in job cuts - Greenwich Time
May 3, 2008 06:50:00

Struggling Greenwich Hedge Fund JWM Partners LLC, run by ex-Long-Term Capital Management LP chief John Meriwether has terminated nearly 20 percent of its employees and has allowed investors to exit one of its funds, firm officials confirmed this week ... -�[Read�more]

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Basso Capital says facing losses in most strategies - Reuters
May 2, 2008 23:05:00

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - Basso Capital Management has lost money in nearly all strategies of the $2.57 billion hedge fund group in the year through March, the company said, citing a common industry challenge. Basso, which trades equity, fixed ... -�[Read�more]

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Hedge Funds Care UK Fundraiser Set For October - Hedgeworld (subscription)
May 2, 2008 19:13:11

Hedge Funds Care UK Fundraiser Set For October
Hedgeworld (subscription),�NY�- May 2, 2008
By Bill McIntosh, Senior Financial Correspondent | Friday, May 02, 2008 LONDON (HedgeWorld.com)—Hedge Funds Care, the alliance of hedge fund industry ...

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Banks taking big risks in forex, says Deutsche - Reuters
May 2, 2008 16:53:00

LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are not doing enough to protect themselves against credit risks when trading foreign exchange with clients like hedge funds, according to Deutsche Banks (DBKGn.DE: Quote , Profile , Research ) global head of foreign exchange ... -�[Read�more]

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