Report: Progress mixed on tracking IT equipment
Agencies are taking a proactive approach to IT asset management, but lack proper funding. [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 05:25:27
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How Much Did Harvard Lose?
by Andrew GillenLost among the holiday shuffle was a piece in the Huffington Post (HT: Felix Salmon) ... close the Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which runs the fund for Harvard, the loss is closer ... physical commodities. Such "real assets" plunged in value, if they could be sold, much more severely [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:05:00
Hedge Funds: the bell tolls for Ospraie
A few weeks ago, I said I thought the volatility in commodity and currency markets smelled like panic ... to raise capital is by seeking a buyer for its asset management business, which would include ... to investors from the Ospraie's founder Dwight Anderson, the fund lost 26.7 percent during August, bringing [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 22:04:41
SAC Capital (Steven Cohen): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008
This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series ... , “SAC is a multi-strategy, private asset management firm founded by Steven A. Cohen in 1992 ... , Global Quantitative Strategies, Fixed Income and Credit, Global Macro Strategies, Convertible Bonds [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:07:32
More funds for Kosmix automated media model
Kosmix is a very modern media company. It sells advertising wrapped around online editorial and pictures, just like a newspaper or a blog ... , the asset management firm. Kosmix has now raised a total ... the precision tool of search. “Sometimes you don’t know exactly what information you are looking [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:20:40
Mitsubishi UFJ Loses $500 Million on Morgan Stanley Stake
Boy, there have been bigger bad investments (TPG putting $7 billion into WaMu comes to mind) ... Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. ``The U.S. bailout plan was the big change we hadn't had before ... . have tapped the region's banks and sovereign wealth funds for money in the past year as falling U.S. home [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 04:03:53
Something (again) Is Rotten In The State of New Jersey
There is a major scandal brewing and our beloved governor can’t see it. It just came to light that the New Jersey Pension Fund for Public Employees invested in three different hedge funds—Black Rock Inc., Conger Capital Advisers LLC, and Golden Tree Asset Management LP [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 23:15:00
GMAC Loosens Credit Reins After $6 Billion Treasury Loan
The U.S. Treasury has agreed to lend $6 billion to GMAC LLC (GOM), the financing arm of General Motors Corp. (GM) ... banking industry with plans to access even more funds from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief ... . To raise that $30 billion, GMAC – owned by GM and Cerberus Capital Management L.P. – convinced about 75 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 12:20:33
GMAC Loosens Credit Reins After $6 Billion Treasury Loan
The U.S. Treasury has agreed to lend $6 billion to GMAC LLC (GOM), the financing arm of General Motors Corp. (GM) ... banking industry with plans to access even more funds from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief ... . To raise that $30 billion, GMAC – owned by GM and Cerberus Capital Management L.P. – convinced [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 16:23:22
PE Fund-Raising Declines for First Time Since 2003
Sabrina Willmer, of Private Equity Analyst, files this dispatch on one body blow private-equity firms have taken from the financial crisis ... their private-equity percentage allocation targets because of the marked decline in the stock markets. “ ... over-weighted in the asset class,” said Donn Cox, managing director at LP Capital Advisors. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 18:27:00
Value Investing Congress NYC, Summary With Picks
While some of the most famous hedge funds are getting hammered (here and here and here) ... . If you link tracking the top hedge funds, keep an eye out for the AlphaClone beta launch in a couple weeks ... Coast Asset Management QLT (QLTI) Contango Oil and Gas (MCF) ATP Oil and Gas (ATPG) Thomas [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 02:18:57
A Free Call Option on the American Economy
From the backseat’s darkness, the hedge fund manager wasn’t talking to anyone in particular, ... society, where the leverage to risk others’ assets was more powerful than owning the actual asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:22:04
New Star halts property fund withdrawals
One of Britain's most high profile unit trusts, New Star's £675m International Property fund, ... will now be denied access to their money after its suspension yesterday. Shares in New Star Asset Management, run by maverick entrepreneur John Duffield, plunged 33% as news of the suspension [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 00:04:26
Asia Hedge Fund Guide
Asia Hedge FundsAsia Hedge Fund GuideHere is a short collection of articles on the hedge fund industry in Asia ... serviced by its recently expanded Asia-Pacific prime brokerage arm, as it seeks more business with global ... index was up by 27% and assets under management rose about 75%. From inception in the late 1980s [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 10:51:00
Academic study finds hedge funds more likely to sail into the sunset than go down in blaze of glory
Home About Our View… Founder & Editor Speaking Engagements Frequently Asked Questions Contact Services Daily Blog Alpha Mail ... Asset Managers Consultants Service Providers News, Journals & Blogs Trade Associations [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 01:53:11
Free Money with Ultra ETFs
Edit: I was entirely incorrect. I mischaracterized this in my head ... that, before any sort of short stock rebate and with a zero management fee ETF, the rebalancing ... return percentage of whatever asset value you have invested. SSO, -2x. Buying both funds or selling [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 05:45:47
Resource War, Investing in Demographics, Bottom for Stocks and Gasoline, Fund Managers and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Russian dispute turns into European crisis… the first days of a coming resource war? ... their favorite asset class for 2009… but can you trust them with your money? J.W. Burritt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:46:45
Eminence Capital (Ricky Sandler): Hedge Fund Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008
This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series ... started his career as a research analyst for Mark Asset Management and then went on to start Fusion [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:01:00
Where to Invest 2009: Funds & ETF's
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it ... of illustrating the wisdom of asset allocation and risk management (click on the image [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:37:39
BlueBay Nets $2.7B
BlueBay Asset Management, the London-based fixed-income hedge fund shop, just keeps getting bigger. read more [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 14:23:32
Activist Hedge Fund Investments (as of March 31, 2008)
Barington Capital Bulldog Investors Chapman Capital Breeden Capital Pershing Square Capital Costa Brava Carl Icahn Ramius Capital Dalton ... Investment Management Mario Gabelli (Gamco) Discovery Equity Partners RLR Capital Knightspoint Firebrand Capital SAC Capital Liberation Investment Group Greenlight Capital Sandell Asset Management [more...]
Date: 2008-06-11 17:23:00
BNP Paribas India mutual fund unit exits Satyam
MUMBAI: The Indian mutual fund venture of BNP Paribas has sold its entire holding in Satyam Computer Services, a top executive said on Wednesday ... , Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management, told Reuters. "In January, we have sold... before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 06:39:00
Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund | Stephen Mendel Jr. Exclusive Tracking
Lone Pine CapitalLone Pine Capital 13F Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger ... (AMZN) Brookfield Asset Management Inc (BAM) Cb Richard Ellis Group Inc (CBG) Entergy Corp (ETR) Google ... | Stephen Mendel Jr.:Tontine Capital Partners - Hedge Fund HoldingsHedge Fund Tracker ToolFinancial [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 19:48:48
Madoff to Remain Free, Judge Rules
Madoff to Remain Free, Judge Rules - WSJ.com. A federal judge today denied prosecutors’ request to jail money manager Bernard Madoff for allegedly ... billions of dollars of investor funds, can remain free but must give the government an inventory ... injunction and asset freeze in a civil-fraud case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 23:20:34
Hedge fund industry reality
The tide has gone out for hedge funds. Many have indicated that they "feel" X% of the hedge fund industry will go under ... with justifying a 1-2% management fee and 15-44% performance fee, it has become more compensation class than asset class and has been for years for many. True sustainable alpha is rare. Here are [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:51:32
Reality of the Hedge Fund Industry in 2009
The tide has gone out for hedge funds. Many have indicated that they "feel" X% of the hedge fund industry will go under ... with justifying a 1-2% management fee and 15-44% performance fee, it has become more compensation class than asset class and has been for years for many. True, sustainable alpha is rare. Here are some [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:03:22
Four at Four: Washington Gridlock
What happened Thursday in Washington was not an exact repeat of the breakdown in negotiations over the funding of the TARP plan, ... Arnold, investment advisor at Dawson Wealth Management in Cleveland. The unsteady procession toward ... , the extreme spreads evident in credit markets, where the loan markets, asset-backed, and high-yield [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:45:00
Hedge Fund Tracking: Eminence Capital (Ricky Sandler), Q3 2008
This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series ... Klarman's Baupost GroupArt Samberg's Pequot Capital Management Next up, we have Eminence Capital ... designation. Prior to Eminence, Sandler started his career as a research analyst for Mark Asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 10:10:10
EcoLogic Development Fund – CarbonPlus Director
POSITION DESCRIPTION & CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS Job Title: EcoLogic Development Fund – CarbonPlus™ Director Reports to: ... resources and to foster economic self-reliance through communal management of forests and water ... of the carbon offset value chain, from working with local communities and developers in asset creation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:17:21
The mob is my broker: Cake launching crowdsourced stock fund
The stock tracking and community site Cake Financial is getting some interesting new features, including its first branded financial instrument, ... management services, "a lot is wasted." He's built a service that identifies the stock picks ... stocks that are performing better than yours, in users' accounts with similar asset allocation [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 22:19:00
Evil Short Sellers Part III Gordon Brown's Millions from Hedge Fund Shorters
Paul Myners is a director of the hedge fund manager GLG, which with $25 billion under management is one of europe's biggest hedge fund managers ... , Marble Bar Asset Management (Cayman), contributed to Hilary Benn's deputy leadership campaign ... campaign and he also gave money to Gordon Brown's think-tank the Smith Institute. Gordon rewarded [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 17:11:00
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