This analysis would suggest that any institutions who are long Yahoo and short Yahoo Japan as a hedge are probably wise to cover their short.
Traders looking to hedge a short position on the networking sector might consider a May 40 call to take advantage of HRS's momentum and bearish sentiment backdrop.
The agency accused the firm of arranging a deal with a hedge fund to create a pool of mortgage securities the hedge fund could short against.
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For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.
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Such a return-chasing approach might be justified if investors were rightly anticipating that a short-term improvement in the returns of a particular hedge fund indicated a long-term shift in favour of its style.
This could mean short sellers are using the stock to hedge a long bet elsewhere, or could also mean that short sellers believe the price of the stock will decline.
Ambac shares have lost 90% of their value since January 2007 and William Ackman, a short-seller who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has railed against them (to his own benefit), saying the bond insurers could be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposures to the structured finance market.
In response to a previous Forbes story, readers wrote in alleging that Scher's wife works for a hedge fund that might be short Dendreon stock (betting against its rise).
Miller also defrauded another broker-dealer into taking on a significant short position in Apple stock to hedge against the large purchase of Apple stock he was executing at Rochdale, authorities said.
During the vulnerable period of supply diversification, a hedge against potential energy supply short-falls could be created through the creation of an alliance-wide Contingency Energy Fund for the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
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Most critical of all Institute a capital gains tax of 65% on ALL short sales not directly tied to a long buy by a regulated hedge fund.
In recent months, hedge fund critics have raised the issues of aggressive short-selling, hedge fund collusion with research analysts to manipulate a stock to their benefit, and short-sellers who skirt rules on stock settlement and clearing to make profits.
But Wall Street veteran Dan Strachman, whose books include The Long and Short of Hedge Funds, says a lot of big institutional investors probably invested in it, too.
There are many theories floating around about why this has happened, but the inability to short stocks at a reasonable cost has robbed hedge funds of an integral strategy that distinguishes them from other money management products like mutual funds.
So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
The banning of short selling reduces the opportunity to hedge a purchase of those stocks: thus making it less likely (by some unknown amount) that people will buy them.
Shares swung between gains and losses after Chairman and CEO Michael Johnson led a presentation mean to debunk the short case presented by hedge fund Bill Ackman in December.
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As a hedge fund, Capella has the ability to short stocks and can also use leverage, normally a modest 20% of the fund's capital.
The wiretaps, which breached the normally soundproof walls of hedge funds, told a breathtaking tale of selfish, short-term thinking.
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The borrowers could be hedge funds, who either are trying to short a stock or scrambling to cover a stock loan that has been called in, or they could be investment houses that need an underlying instrument for a derivatives contract.
Only hedge funds--by selling short and tapping into a wide range of strategies like arbitrage--can do the trick.
There also are funds that offer one-stop-shop exposure to a variety of strategies traditionally associated with hedge funds, including long-short equity or nontraditional bond strategies.
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Or my alma mater, Goldman Sachs letting a hedge fund maven client pick out the lousy mortgages to go short in a public offering.
After all, they stand as high valuation properties that hedge funds short axiomatically if they believe we're in a bear market.
But he does cite a poignant case of an anonymous San Francisco hedge-fund manager who had gone short on Sanchez Computer when other funds were going long.
First, new 13F filings filed with the SEC reveal a number of mutual funds and hedge fund managers trimmed back their AAPL holdings and short interest that jumped considerably during the last two weeks of April per data from NASDAQ.
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigator Gary Aguirre is slated to testify at a hearing Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the issue of hedge funds and manipulative short-selling.
Hedge fund manager Jon A. Fosheim made 19% last year shorting REITs and remains short today, although less so.
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