Hedge Fund Directory

In our previous posts, we covered how hedge funds have had it tough over last few months. As the year draw to close, it is useful to take a look back. 2007 was a mixed bag for the hedge funds.

On one hand, hedge funds are getting more investments with the larger funds being especially favoured [...]

The article titled “Big hedge funds get bigger” on September 12, 2007 gives yet another estimate on the size of the hedge fund industry and the number of hedge funds in existence today. Though there is no single authorized source of information about Hedge Funds, it is helpful for the observers to keep track of [...]

Hedge Funds have been in news quite frequently over the last few months. Mostly the news coverage has been of speculative nature with regards to their role in the rough weather experienced by financial markets all around the world. It is quite natural considering their intrinsic nature. These are the funds which have more then [...]

In the hedge fund industry it is not what you know, it is not who you know. It is who knows you.
MPC Investors is a $3B hedge fund based in London. Last month they raised $900M to launch a pan-European directional long/short fund. This was while a higher than usual number of funds were losing [...]

Like many large banks on wall street Goldman Sachs offers several hedge funds. A few of these took big losses this summer and in one case with the Goldman Global Opportunities Fund the firm had to inject $3B into the fund to keep it running ($2B of their own money). “Given the market dislocation, the [...]

No one knows yet the depth of the hedge fund crisis with regard to subprime loans. But it has an impact on many city pension funds, endowments and equity investors. Bill Grayson, President of Falcon Point Capital helps us make sense of the crisis and its impact in the San Francisco Bay Area.