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June 2010
June 30, 2010
The hedge fund responds to investor requests on liquidity, costs
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June 30, 2010
AR is now accepting votes for the Hedge Fund Report Card. Have investors’ views changed?
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June 30, 2010
Ed Bozaan spent five-and-a-half years at John Burbank’s $3 billion firm before venturing out to form his own global long/short fund, which will launch this fall.
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June 29, 2010
Marc Lasry’s Avenue Strategic Partners dropped 1.79% in May yet remains positive on the year, returning 3.43% in 2010. The fund is invested York, Glenview, Marathon and Gracie Capital, among others.
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June 29, 2010
Industry lobbyists mount a full-court press to block an assessment on the largest hedge funds and banks. It may have worked.
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June 29, 2010
Jamie Dinan’s investments in General Motors, Xerox and eye-care company Alcon contributed to a negative month in May for the $1.2 billion York Select fund, while a stake in Chrysler provided profits.
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June 25, 2010
In a proposal added to the financial reform bill at 3:00am this morning, the country’s largest hedge funds could face billions of dollars in fees.
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June 23, 2010
Eleonore Dachicourt, who helped set up the bank’s hedge fund advisory business, is leaving the firm.
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June 22, 2010
Ona Lewis, who once ran $6 billion at Banc One, is launching an emerging markets fund.
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June 22, 2010
Usually quick to cut losses, Louis Bacon held on to losers in May, but has now cut them out.
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June 18, 2010
Bob Treue’s fixed income arbitrage shop, which returned 132% in 2009, suffered its first down month in a year and a half.
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June 17, 2010
The $5.7 billion firm has lost two fund of funds portfolio managers.
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June 17, 2010
The $5.7 billion firm has lost two fund of funds portfolio managers.
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June 17, 2010
The $5.7 billion firm has lost two fund of funds portfolio managers.
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June 17, 2010
The $5.7 billion firm has lost two fund of funds portfolio managers.
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June 15, 2010
“I did not sell it well,” groused Leon Cooperman.
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June 15, 2010
Tiger cubs howl and Third Point loses some edge.
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June 15, 2010
Jamie Dinan’s York Capital Management is closing in on its former size.
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June 09, 2010
Boston-based Venus Capital Management, a firm set up in 1994 by former PaineWebber broker Vik Mehrotra, plans to open its global macro strategy to outside investors in 2011.
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June 09, 2010
The wizard of OZ conjures up a powerful display of marketing prowess.
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June 09, 2010
Boston-based Venus Capital Management, a firm set up in 1994 by former PaineWebber broker Vik Mehrotra, plans to open its global macro strategy to outside investors in 2011.
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June 08, 2010
The New York-based fund of funds subsidiary of Tokyo firm ITOCHU Corporation is winding down its operations.
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June 08, 2010
Banks argue that clients want “skin in the game;” Volcker opposes watering down; Corzine weighs in
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June 07, 2010
Mark Meyer and Marilyn White, two senior marketing executives at Nomura Asset Management, will be leaving the firm in the next few weeks.
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June 07, 2010
Chief investment officer Chris McDonough said he wants to have the new hire in place by July.
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June 04, 2010
A $15 million 2007 donation to help homeowners fight foreclosure is now the subjection of an investigation.
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June 03, 2010
Jaffray Woodriff’s firm has lost 16% of its assets since January 1, largely due to poor performance in May across its Global Program funds. May 20 was particularly bad. Said QIM president Michael Geismar: “It was one of the worst days we’ve ever had.”
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June 01, 2010
Demand for aid went up during the recession—at the same time growth of hedge fund philanthropy slowed.
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June 01, 2010