Korea's Pension Fund to Cut Stock Investment in 2009

South Korea's National Pension Service, the nation's biggest investor with 225 trillion won ($176 billion) ... conditions,'' said Lee Jin Woo, a fund manager at KTB Asset Management Co. in Seoul, which oversees ... .'' The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has slumped 45 percent in 2008, the worst annual performance in its two-decade [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 07:04:56

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Silly Canadian....Gold Isn't For Stupid Americans..............

Eric Sprott: Gold: The Go-To Asset in any Environment-- Posted Friday, 9 January 2009 Source: GoldSeek ... in the country. Managing $4.8 billion worth of hedge and mutual funds for Sprott Asset Management ... .comA 40-year, spectacularly successful veteran of the investment industry, Eric Sprott [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:00

"A stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions"

(updated) This is pretty nuts: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Bernard L. Madoff and his investment firm, Bernard L ... for investors, including an asset freeze and the appointment of a receiver for the firm. The SEC's complaint ... to regulatory filings, the Madoff firm had more than $17 billion in assets under management [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 01:59:18

Latest End-of-the-World News

November 25, 2008 Uncategorized   So if you wanted the latest end-of-the-world news, here you go: ... worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 21:13:37

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

Gold pays no interest, and soon the pound won’t either

Savers Facing Accounts with No InterestBy Edmund Conway and Myra ButterworthThe Telegraph, LondonFriday, January 2, ... from their savings and investments to help them during the recession.Mark Dampier, of asset managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 11:24:48

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... , Asset Management and Investment Services Group. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the UMB Bank [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 18:04:01

ATP Corporation: A Fraction Worth More Than the Whole?

West Coast Asset Management posed the following idea at the Value Investing Congress in October: What is ATP Natural Gas (ATPG): ATP Oil & Gas Corporation is engaged in the acquisition [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 10:05:35

DLF Assets To Raise $450M From JPMorgan, TPG?

DLF Assets (DAL), the property fund of DLF, will raise around $450 million from a cluster of private equity investors including JP Morgan Asset Management, Texas Pacific Group and others, reports CNBC-TV18, quoting investment banking sources ... has raised $450 million from Symphony Capital, a London based investment firm in May this year. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 08:07:01

Big investors: No problem with Freddie debt sale

Big investors: No problem with Freddie debt sale July 14th, 2008 By Jennifer Ablan NEW YORK (Reuters) ... Harding, chief investment officer of fixed income at Allegiant Asset Management which oversees $20 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 21:07:50

“Swap” Inventor Blames Regulators for Financial Crisis

David Swensen, of Yale University Endowment investment management fame discusses the current state of the market and derivatives trading ... to the financial system should be regulated. “I don’t think it is the tool that is the problem,” he says ... value is derived from an underlying asset or income stream. As a part of this trend, musician David [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:12:51

Cashing in on Corporate Training with This $4 Stock

p {margin-bottom: 1em;} pennysleuth.com| Meet the Editors| Archives| Contact UsEditor's Note: Jonas is back, ... in an asset that's not always noticed by investors…their people ... learning and talent management, "Corporations are investing heavily in current and up-and-coming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:30:00

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

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

Surprise!... Obama's Climate Czar Is Board Member of Major Carbon Offset Company ...Update: Her Husband Lobbied on Energy Issues

It was reported yesterday that Barack Obama picked a radical socialist as his climate czar ... of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm.Commenting on Ms. Browner's election ... markets. Her extensive experience and global perspective will be a tremendous asset to APX as we look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:26:00

Dow Zooms Above 9,000 on Eve of Expected Fed Rate Cut

U.S. equities rallied yesterday (Tuesday) as the U.S ... about $2 billion at Palisade Capital Management in Fort Lee, New Jersey, told Bloomberg News. “ ... in some additional buyers and short-covering,” Robert Pavlik, chief investment officer at Oaktree Asset [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 13:49:38

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

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

FORMER INVESTMENT ADVISOR ARRAIGNED ON SECURITIES FRAUD CHARGES

1/5/2009 FBI Press Release Atlanta, GA - FREDERICK J. BARTON, 48, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge C ... advisory firms, Barton Asset Management, LLC and Twinspan Capital, LLC, both based in Atlanta [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 20:33:26

Global Investing Roundups Friday, November 21st, 2008

GMAC Files to Become a Bank; Unemployment Nears 26-Year High; Mogul Signals Interest in Circuit City; Banco do Brasil Buying Out Rival; ... company GMAC has filed to become a bank, a shot at getting a slice of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP owns 51% of GMAC. General [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:43:06

Big Bath Accounting Fraud

One of the hardest accounting frauds to spot is big bath accounting ... , unscrupulous management would begin writing-off every expense and asset they could imagine. As a result, future ... of inventory, plant and equipment, write-off of an investment gone south and restructuring charges [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 04:42:00

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

Did You Invest in Madoff? Here’s What You Need to Know . . .

Bernard L. Madoff, Dec. 30, 1999. (AP/The New York Times, Ruby Washington) ... Hedge Fund and the case involving the International Management Associates, which bilked some $150 ... else’s money, not an asset of the fund. The trustee would ask for the return of the money [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 18:44:00

Stop Calling It An "Industry" Too By: Mark W Adams

You can stop calling banks or investment firms a financial services "industry" while you're at it ... debt into a valuable asset by slicing and repackaging questionable mortgages into default-swap bond ... , the heirs to the gentrified aristocracy who now inhabit upper management high rise offices across [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 20:14:00

Should You Invest During a Financial Crisis?

Written on 10/13/2008 by Michael Miles. Michael writes about personal growth, communication, and increasing personal wealth at Effortless Abundance ... and outperform every other asset class over time. Despite enormous social, political and economic ... with excellent track records of profitability and growth, strong management teams, excellent product [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 17:58:05

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