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Category Archives: hedge funds
How Hedge Fund Managers Apologize
Paul Kedrosky has shoved 3,085 words of hedge fund manager
non-apology apologies into Microsoft Word’s Auto-Summarize feature and boiled
them down to two sentences.
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Goldman’s Hedge-Fund Sweetener Revealed
We bloggers like to speculate, and on Monday I hazarded
a guess that the don’t-call-it-a-rescue injection of liquidity into Goldman
Sachs’s Global Equity Opportunities hedge fund would reward investors with lower
fees than would normally be available to them.
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One Question for David Viniar
What, exactly, was it that saw a 25 standard deviation move?
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Dissecting Hedge Funds
Blessed with the genius of hindsight, Veryan Allen has decreed
that "the recent stat arb problems were almost inevitable".
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Why a Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Investment Might Look Attractive
Commenter tinbox has an
interesting take on the news that Goldman Sachs is injecting liquidity into
its own hedge funds:
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AQR Also Hopes To Put More Money Into Quant Funds
Bess Levin of Dealbreaker has
the letter
that AQR principal Cliff Asness sent to investors worried about losses in his
quant-based hedge funds.
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Quant Fund Pain: Is The Worst Over?
There have been a lot of losses in quant-based hedge funds in recent days.
But the smart money, it seems, is
bullish:
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When Volatility Strikes
We’re not on the brink of Armageddon.
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When Hedge Fund Investors Lose Confidence
Jenny Anderson is
worried that when hedge-fund investors get their monthly statements in July,
they’ll start to panic.
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Subprime in Germany
Who or what is an IKB? I know there are lots of obscure European banks, but
IKB is obscure even by German standards. And somehow – really, no one
seems to have the foggiest notion how – IKB’s Rheinland Funding vehicle
seems to have contrived to amass an eye-popping €17 billion ($23 billion)
in US
subprime exposure.
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Sowood: Long Debt, Short Equity
Marc Andreessen made a lot of money last week, when he sold
his company for $1.6 billion. But has he been losing a lot of money, too?
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Bear Stearns Funds: Still More Questions Than Answers
Back on Monday, I had a whole set of unanswered
questions about the collapsed Bear Stearns hedge funds. Today, we got news
– but no answers to those questions. In fact, there are now more questions
than ever.
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Why Hedge Fund Managers Don’t Blame Themselves For Losses
I don’t need to pick on Bear Stearns here: in fact I’m struggling to come
up with a single hedge-fund collapse which didn’t blame some kind of
"unprecedented" event.
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Bookstaber Blogs: Why Hedge Fund Managers Make Less Than You Think
Rick Bookstaber is blogging!
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Harry Kat: Changing His Tune?
Earlier this month, John Cassidy profiled
Harry Kat, hedge fund replictor. It certainly seemed that Kat’s
business was to replicate the returns that hedge funds generate, if not on a
month-to-month basis then certainly over the medium term.
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Unanswered Questions at Bear Stearns
Does anybody really understand what happened at the two Bear Stearns hedge funds which have now imploded?
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Staying Sanguine About the Bear Stearns Losses
DealBook
today sets up a mini cage match between me and Janet Tavakoli:
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Both Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Have Positive Valuations
That seems to be what
the WSJ is reporting this afternoon, at least:
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How to Start a Hedge Fund Without Having to Run It
How come Nassim Taleb is setting up a new hedge fund, Universa
Investments?
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Hedge Fund Analysts’ Salaries Soar
Mark Malyszko of Institutional Investor says that pay at hedge funds is through
the roof.
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Ralph Cioffi’s Failed Liquidity Arbitrage
Veryan Allen has a neat riposte to anybody who claims that
the meltdown at Bear Stearns’ credit funds shows how dangerous hedge funds can
be: the Bear Stearns funds weren’t
hedge funds!
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Bear’s Funds’ Problems: Not All That Big
The more we learn about what happened at Bear Stearns, the more overblown all the worries seem to have been.
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Bear Stearns Funds: Is Everything OK Now?
After throwing the entire financial media (if not the actual markets) into a week-long tizzy, Bear Stearns seems to have found a way to stabilize things without committing too much of its own money and without subjecting its funds’ prime brokers to any losses.
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Punishing Short-Sellers
What is the SEC
doing fining UK hedge fund GLG Partners $3.2 million over illegal
short-selling?
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The Bear Bailout: A Plea for Transparency
Now that the public gets its financial information from an incredibly wide range of sources, it’s becoming less and less useful for banks and other financial entities to talk only to a small number of media sources.
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