For that blame Lehman, whose failure now hangs poisonously over the relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers.
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Over the last decade, hedge funds and private equity funds have entered the mainstream public consciousness after many years of profitably operating in the arcane shadows of the economy.
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Ohashi is not the first nor will he be the last to leave an investment bank for a hedge fund over the next couple of years.
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Young mother Ms Kift, a front-seat passenger, was thrown from the car as it flipped over a hedge and rolled down a bank in the early hours.
From now on, neighbours will be able to involve their local council in disputes over the height of a hedge.
This is because the bulk of investors' capital has flooded in over the past ten years, whereas hedge funds performed best when the industry was smaller than it is now.
In the midst of the fight over Atos Origin, he said that the hedge funds had a right to representation on the firm's board, given the size of their stake.
This sounds trivial, but battles over hedge heights in the suburbs can become surprisingly fierce.
Something like this indiscriminate selling has been affecting hedge funds over the past couple of weeks.
Over the last few years, hedge funds have made billions of dollars of investments in penny stocks using PIPE structures, often causing the underlying stocks to plummet.
For example, the FDIC has the authority to wind down unstable financial firms, banking regulators have a tighter grip on setting capital standards, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have greater oversight over hedge funds and private equity firms, and the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will coordinate regulation of derivatives.
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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.
Typically, traders are snatching up puts in order to hedge their positions over the long weekend, just in case.
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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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Remember, under our proposal if a small -- thousands of hedge funds have failed over the years with no impact on the rest of the system.
Mr. Parker said he has entertained offers to buy his newsletter over the years, including three from "hedge-fund guys, " but so far he has refused them all, in part because he would not relinquish editorial control of the newsletter.
All these have a survivorship bias: investments mentioned at dinner parties, stocks charted in Value Line, entrepreneurs featured in FORBES, stock market histories (does your data set include the --100% compound annual return on Russia over the past century?), available hedge fund performance numbers and every mutual fund ad.
The concept of gold stocks as an inflation hedge is refuted by the action of Newmont Mining over the past 15 years.
Last year, as the subprime market began its collapse, the President's Working Group, which includes the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, recommended against tighter oversight of the over-the-counter market, in the context of vetoing tighter regulation of hedge funds, saying the industry can self-police.
The short thesis rests on the notion that the FTC has been asleep at the switch, missed a massive fraud for over three decades, and will shortly awaken (at the behest of hedge fund short seller) to shut down the Company.
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One of the best-known hedge funds, Soros Fund Management, admitted that it chewed over the sell signal given by the Big Mac index when the euro was launched, but then decided to ignore it.
The move from bank prop trader to hedge fund manager is one several top traders have made over the last couple of years in response to new regulatory rules that forbid banks from trading with their own funds.
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However, the significant growth in United Kingdom and European based fund managers over the past 15 years has meant that structuring hedge funds has become an increasingly multi-national endeavour.
So these are mostly what could be described as experienced mom-and-pop investors not so much the institutional, hedge-fund backed real estate investors that have jumped into the market over the past two years.
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To help rebuild its assets, UBP bought over the past two years the Swiss arm of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, and Paris-based hedge fund Nexar Capital Group.
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Around 77 of the 200 hedge funds sold in Australia offer their products to the general public, sometimes over the internet, without officials batting an eyelid.
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Cooperman is the founder of a hedge fund called Omega Advisors, but he has gained notice beyond Wall Street over the past year for his outspoken criticism of President Obama.
He started 2013 by locking horns with hedge fund trader Bill Ackman over Herbalife, the nutritional supplement seller Herbalife.
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