Stamboulie had a client who was laid off from a hedge fund research post.
Hedge funds posted their best year in a decade in 2009, according to Hedge Fund Research.
The average hedge fund lost 18% during 2008, according to Hedge Fund Research, an analysis firm.
Distressed-debt hedge funds in general returned 4.95% in the first three months of the year, according to Hedge Fund Research.
In the first eight months of this year, says Hedge Fund Research, hedge funds returned 12.2% on average.
Inflows of new money may have peaked in 2002, on figures from Hedge Fund Research, a Chicago firm.
According to Hedge Fund Research, a research company, the value of assets in funds of hedge funds doubled last year.
The fund's performance is down, while the average hedge fund is seeing gains of 4.9%, according to Hedge Fund Research.
According to Hedge Fund Research, a research firm, more than half of existing funds of funds are allowed to invest borrowed cash.
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The top decile of managers has served up returns of over 30% in the past year, according to Hedge Fund Research, a data provider.
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In contrast, the average hedge fund fell roughly 19% in 2008, with losses in eight of the year's 12 months, according to data from Hedge Fund Research Inc.
But the overall industry did a bit better than many might have feared: even after August's losses, it is up 6.2% on the year, according to Hedge Fund Research's figures.
Data from Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain.
If you invest in a hedge fund, your adviser should be able to compare its returns against that of an index, such as one of those composed by Hedge Fund Research Inc.
Despite the angst so far, the meltdown in subprime has not spilled over to mass redemptions in other parts of the hedge fund world, where assets continue to flow in and performance has been strong this year, said Kenneth Heinz, president of Hedge Fund Research in Chicago.
Tony Lissuzzo, director of hedge-fund research at Northern Trust Corp.
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.
In Utah, home of Overstock.com, which has accused a hedge fund and a research firm of colluding to drive down its stock to their own enrichment, lawmakers have already passed one such law.
Overstock.com, the discount online retailer, has accused an independent research firm and a hedge fund of working together to drive down its shares and those of other companies by publishing negative research and shorting the shares before that research is made public.
Overstock.com (nasdaq: OSTK - news - people ), the discount online retailer, has accused an independent research firm and a hedge fund of working together to drive down its shares and those of other companies by publishing negative research and shorting the shares before that research is made public.
He is also the director of research at hedge fund Oak Hill REIT Management.
Before we cut medical research, we should ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries.
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The report was released by New York law firm Labaton Sucharow, which specializes in representing plaintiffs in securities class action cases and whistleblower actions, together with HedgeWorld, a news and research service, and the Hedge Fund Association, a trade group.
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His first job at a high-frequency trading operation was as a quantitative research analyst at Citadel, a giant Chicago hedge fund, which he joined in early 2009.
As for that UBS tipping case, 12 of the defendants have settled or pleaded guilty, including Mitchel Guttenberg, the former institutional client manager of UBS's research department who was accused of selling upcoming downgrade tips to hedge fund clients in a scheme hatched with a friend at New York's Oyster Bar.
Winifred Jiau (43), formerly a consultant to Primary Global Research, was found guilty today of passing along confidential information to hedge fund managers in exchange for payments.
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