Hedge Fund Directory

As if Hedge funds don’t have enough of their plate already, they are now being adversely commented up on by US presidential hopefuls — more for media mileage than for any meaningful discussion!
There an interesting article here:
Hillary ClintonTakes Aim at Hedge Funds and Mergers & Acquisitions
According to the Political Radar blog, Hillary Clinton commented on [...]

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 [...]

This is a common question on some of the investment forums, and this post aims to clarify that. For those of you in the hedge fund industry this is obvious stuff so please just let me know if I missed something glaring.
Mutual Funds

Their performance is marked against a relevant benchmark which they try to beat [...]

Many banks, especially Merrill Lynch, have been rushing to offer passive hedge fund products, aiming to tap perceived demand for lower-priced products. Most of these products are structured as index-like derivatives that trade over the counter.
And so, Stonebrook Structured Products has launched Stonebrook Alternative Beta Fund. It aims to replicate the “alternative beta” portion [...]

With 2-3 trillion dollars invested, the Hedge Funds industry is already about 20% of the mutual fund industry- and its still considered ‘largely unregulated’. And so, SEC is thinking of new rules that may make it more difficult to be a hedge fund investor. Michael Gray of Neal, Gerber, and Eisenberg talks about possible changes [...]