Hedge Fund Directory

One of the trends in Hedge fund industry we have frequently highlighted is about big hedge funds getting bigger in coming year as investors are willing to sacrifice some returns for reduced risk and stability.
A Bloomberg article reported that as of June 30th 2007, there were 246 funds with more than $ 1 billion in [...]

Recently the latest F1 sensation from Britain, Lewis Hamilton, decided to move his base from the UK to Switzerland for tax purposes. It has been estimated that Hamilton will be able to save tens of millions that would have otherwise gone to the UK government. Now he will be able to race [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hedge Funds use many different strategies to make money although broadly speaking they are often put into 3 main categories. This video details the categories and what the means are. This video covers 3 basic Hedge Fund Strategies:
1. Long-Short Hedge Fund Strategy
2. Event-Driven Hedge Fund Strategy
3. Relative Value Hedge Fund Strategy

Given the HFs are not [...]

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 [...]