"Hedge funds keep the companies honest, " says Martin Weiss, chairman of the Weiss Group, Inc.
While the cream of the crop of private school graduates gets the top 1% of jobs in hedge funds or successful companies like Facebook, most are in the bottom 99%, at the mercy of companies squeezing their employees and outsourcing professional work to countries with lower labor rates.
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The company is based in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, and its clients include worldwide leaders in game software, hardware, and services, as well as hedge funds, media companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms, all of whom have a vested interest in a thorough understanding of the games industry in Southeast Asian and China.
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We included only contributions from commercial banks, the securities and investment industry (which includes private equity companies, hedge funds and venture capital firms) and finance and credit card companies.
If they invest it they put it in hedge funds rather than in companies that actually produce something.
Private equity, the flip side of hedge funds which often take companies private and then public again, is driving the current privatization boom.
Originally conceived as a means for banks to reduce their credit exposure to large corporate clients, CDSs quickly became instruments of speculation for pension funds, insurers, companies and (especially) hedge funds.
We cut most of our efforts going after American companies, hedge funds and the chemical sector.
These bonds are bought by a wide range of investors, including insurance companies and hedge funds.
This could backfire and cause companies, hedge funds, traders and investors to move out of the Euro-FTT-zone.
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Most nonbanks, such as insurance companies and hedge funds, have perfectly adequate bankruptcy processes already (the recent MF Global bankruptcy is a case in point).
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Shareholders must be wondering when their oil companies became hedge funds.
This means pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies, and a host of other entities that are either not taxed or taxed using a different structure than individuals.
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The CFTC allows access to trading on EBOTs to a limited set of "eligible" investors, meaning big banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and other institutions, and super-rich individuals who presumably know what they're getting into.
These companies set up conversations between hedge funds, for example, and people who work or who have worked in industries and companies where the funds want to invest.
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The collective Burden wealth is equally split among hedge funds, small-business investment companies and real estate.
The finance ministry has barred individuals, non-financial companies and foreign hedge funds, among others, from buying its new bonds.
Hedge funds can make money by buying companies and selling underperforming assets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intervened in the epic struggle between financial companies and the hedge funds that are short-selling their shares.
Another concern is whether the government's involvement will actually spur banks and private investor groups -- such as hedge funds, pension plans and insurance companies -- to participate.
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Chu appears to be an employee of Primary Global Research, one of a number of firms that match up industry experts and hedge funds to exchange information about public companies.
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That's because the bonds, which are held by hedge funds, pensions and other insurance companies, are structured in a way that makes hitting the triggers for a loss all but impossible to reach.
Martoma and Gilman, who was working on said clinical trials, were matched up by an expert network which SAC and its affiliate hedge funds paid to get information on companies they were following.
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It was not the result of investors, including institutional investors like pension plans and insurance companies, or even hedge funds, pouring money into the market.
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It provides global financial and economic data and a variety of analytical applications to investment managers, hedge funds, investment bankers, private equity companies, and other investors.
Still pending are cases against brokers and hedge funds for shorting the shares of weak companies and against Ford Motor for rollover accidents caused by the Explorer.
In today's caffeine-fuelled dealing rooms, a barely regulated private-equity group could very well borrow money from syndicates of private lenders, including hedge funds, to spend on taking public companies private.
Part of their strength comes from having passed some of their risks to others, including hedge funds, private-equity firms, insurance companies and pension funds.
Because they are risky, hedge funds are mostly private partnerships instead of public companies, and most regulators allow only the rich (and supposedly savvy) to invest in them.
Reinsurance companies may sue the investment banks and hedge funds whose holdings they guaranteed.
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