How does the hedge fit in with your overall goals for your landscape?
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In recent months, a growing list of individuals and hedge funds with ties to SAC have become ensnared in the investigation, including two hedge funds with close ties to SAC that were raided in November.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's post-election slump continued, with the blue chip barometer slipping below 11, 100 at the end of the holiday-shortened week, which got off to a decidedly downbeat start Monday with FBI raids on several major hedge funds in connection with a major insider trading investigation.
On the other side, the big investors in hedge fund are now institutions with much more rigorous reporting requirements than hedge fund managers had to deal with in the early days when their investors tended to be wealthy individuals or families.
Shareholders of Apple are, in effect, investors in the largest hedge fund in the world with absolutely no idea what they are invested in.
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Coleman, 37, shot to the top of the hedge fund heap his Tiger Global beat nearly all other hedge funds in 2011 with a 45 percent return.
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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.
In a second meeting with another hedge fund in October, Kovachev posed as the developer's chief executive officer, prosecutors allege, on a conference call arranged by Dreier.
Like Chu, the case against Fleishman was that he was putting corporate insiders, with access to sensitive information on earnings and products, in contact with hedge fund managers for a fee.
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To make the case for gold and grains we turned to Renee Haugerud, operator of a smallish hedge fund in New York with a big commodities position, Galtere International Fund, Ltd.
The prime brokerage unit provides services to hedge funds, a lucrative niche business that has grown in importance with the expansion of the hedge fund industry.
Hedge funds generally have great freedom in their investment strategies, including the ability to invest assets with other hedge fund managers, and funds and are notoriously lacking in transparency.
This suggests that Apple is either the largest or second largest hedge fund in the world, with tremendous investment return potential.
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In fact the third quarter of 2011 was one one of the worst in history for hedge funds with losses across almost every strategy.
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In defense of Paulson, he is a hedge fund manager and anyone who invests with him should realize that there is significantly more risks investing in hedge funds and should stay away from strategies like his if they are unable to accept the severe volatility.
The brokers may have been pledged collateral against their hedge-fund loans but, as Merrill Lynch recently discovered in its dealings with two Bear Stearns hedge funds, it may not be possible to sell that collateral for anything like the current market price.
Yet when Papastavrou tried to work with other investors in the Quantek hedge fund, many of those investors directed their anger at Papastavrou and pleaded with him to stop his crusade against Guerra.
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But the senator got a taste of hedge funds' frustrations with Democrats in February 2009, during a phone conversation with SAC Capital's Mr. Cohen.
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.
In America three-quarters of onshore hedge funds have offshore clones, mainly because hedge funds with foreign investors, who are not required to pay taxes on their hedge-fund investments in America, would still need to file America's unwieldy tax returns if they invested onshore.
Also in late 2009, Chicago hedge fund giant Citadel Investment Group became embroiled in a legal battle with two former staffers who had started up their own high-frequency trading outfit, Teza Technologies.
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In 2004 while working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston and helping his cousins in New Orleans with their math, Sal started posting lessons on YouTube.
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Tim Ghriskey, a hedge-fund manager with Solaris Group in New York, says the news spooked him.
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Goldman is, in effect, a giant hedge fund with some consulting services attached.
Only 7% of its equity business in the region is with hedge funds, compared with three-quarters from mutual funds.
Kovachev also is alleged to have put Dreier in contact with a third hedge fund about a transaction involving the promissory notes.
The collapse of the hedge funds in June 2007 coupled with questions about Bear Stearns management and oversight threw the firm into a severe liquidity crisis.
John Hempton ( a hedge fund manager with a great interest in such Chinese stocks) has had a go at working out, if Sino Forest is indeed a scam, quite how much money has been taken.
Through a friend with a hedge fund investing in Delphi, who knew that the man who first shunned President Obama for saving the auto industry (yet now claims that he somehow saved it) was making millions either way?
For example, according to a new global survey by Mercer Investment Consulting, less than a quarter (23%) of 180 pension funds surveyed that invest in funds of hedge funds are satisfied with their investment returns, while 28% are dissatisfied.
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