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BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Anne Tergesen |
Hedge Fund Sleuths For sizable fees, hedge fund sleuths put secretive investment partnerships under a microscope.   |
Financial Advisor
February 2, 2009
Alan Lavine |
Distressed Assets Gone Wild There are several ways for financial advisors to get in on the distressed asset action by investing in private equity, in hedge funds, or in mutual funds that invest in distressed bonds and stocks. |
BusinessWeek
October 9, 2006
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Amaranth's Loss, Wall Street's Gain The hedge fund's collapse was foreseen by other players, who laid their plans accordingly. |
Investment Advisor
August 2005
Jeff Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Institutions Are Still Committed Two recent surveys provide insights into the current state of hedge funds and their longer-term performance. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Welcome to the Hedge Fund Maelstrom Who will get sucked down next? As the volatility in the hedge fund market increases, more hedge funds are claiming big losses on the year. Some have taken bad enough losses to discuss closing out funds. |
Financial Advisor
November 2003
Alan Lavine |
Alternate Ways To Hedge Portfolios Should you put your well-heeled clients into unregistered or registered hedge funds? Or is it better to select a mutual fund that uses hedge-fund tactics and is managed by a registered investment company? |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem? |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Options Trading Grows Up Electronic systems are making the market more efficient and alluring to investors. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Hedge Funds Ask: Where's the Love? It's been a long, strange trip since the hedge fund industry's summer-of-love confab. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Meet Your New Bankers Hedge funds have a pile of cash to lend. Should you take it? |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Savita Iyer |
Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds? |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Neil O'Hara |
Dearth of Easy Pickings? Now that retail investors are able to partake of hedge funds in unprecedented numbers, some are calling hedge investing a bubble about to be popped... Largest SEC Registered Funds of Funds... Hedge Fund Index Performance... |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Investment Banking: Capital Markets and Proprietary Trading One function of major investment banks is capital markets and proprietary trading. For those who need capital, and those looking for a home for their capital, investment banks function as the middleman. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Goldstein & Henry |
Bear Bets Wrong Two Bear Stearns hedge funds soared by specializing in exotic securities and unorthodox practices. Then they imploded and helped set off a global credit market meltdown. |
Registered Rep.
February 20, 2006
Kevin Burke |
MFS Chairman Blasts Hedge Funds at NICSA Confab The chairman of fund complex MFS Investment Management is calling for the formation of a task force to overhaul performance reporting for hedge funds. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2006
Alex Dumortier |
Lessons From Amaranth There's a lot to learn from the hedge fund's prodigious collapse. Amaranth's stunning demonstration of the speed with which a hedge fund can come undone will certainly have cooled investor enthusiasm for other such offerings. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
David E. Adler |
Vultures Circling Instead of a bear market, the developing investment environment could be characterized as a vulture market. But at the moment the vultures are circling, but not swooping. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Laura Cohn |
Europe's Pension Plans: Switching Over To Hedge Funds More institutional investors are going for higher returns -- and higher risks. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Ronald W. Roge |
To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives? |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Hedge Fund Wannabes Hedge fund replicators mimic the high-risk portfolios at a fraction of the cost - but results are mixed so far. |
BusinessWeek
October 31, 2005
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Hedges: The New Corporate ATMs Hedge funds and other institutional investors are lending money to corporations as banks get pickier. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Looks Like a Hedge Fund, Smells Like For clients who cannot --- or will not --- try hedge funds, there is a compelling alternative: mutual funds that follow hedge-like strategies. Here are some options. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Angel Ubide |
Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets. |
CFO
October 1, 2010
Alix Stuart |
Thinking Outside the Stocks Corporate pension funds look to alternatives for funding boosts. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Jeff Joseph |
High-End Investors Don't Fear Hedge Fund Blow-ups The large losses of the Amaranth Advisors hedge fund last September and other similar highly-publicized failures are unlikely to deter hedge fund investing by those rich individuals who manage their own portfolios, judging from a survey of the participants in a high-end investors' club. |
Registered Rep.
January 29, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Hedge Funds Losing Their Appeal? The star power of hedge funds seems to have waned in 2006, at least among the wealthiest set. Will investors -- and their advisors -- continue to cool to hedge funds? |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 26, 2003 |
The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Hedge Funds Are Here to Stay The hedge fund industry has been broadsided recently by erratic markets, as well as major losses for some funds. Getting negative on the entire industry may be misguided, though. Not all hedge funds will be successful, but the top ones will continue to be a major force in the markets. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Steve Savage |
Consider the Alternatives Think twice before pitching hedge funds and private equity to your financial advisory clients. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2011
Stan Luxenberg |
Hedge Funds Now Going for Institutional Money Instead of HNW Individuals While hedge funds once catered primarily to wealthy individuals, now the main clients are pensions and institutions. That shift is forcing hedge funds to change the way they operate. |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Emily Thornton |
Inside Wall Street's Culture Of Risk Investment banks are placing bigger bets than ever and beating the odds - at least for now. |
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Gene Swanzey |
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns. |
Financial Advisor
June 2010
Riva D. Atlas |
A Creditor's Feast Investors who snatched up distressed debt made big money in 2009. Some opportunities remain. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Lee Conrad |
Oversight: Hedge Fund Transparency At Issue...Again The Securities & Exchange Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight on the most opaque of investments-hedge funds-by creating a working group in its enforcement division to combat insider trading. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2005
David Twibell |
Background Check With interest in alternative investments on the rise, many advisers are looking for new ways to evaluate which, if any, make sense for their clients. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2006
John Finneran |
Hedge Fund Wizards Money managers cast spells over the market -- and reap huge rewards. Hedge funds operate in a haze. Penetrating how they earn returns and take risks is tough, but is a good exercise for investors. |
BusinessWeek
February 26, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Hedge Funds Jump Into Private Equity Eager to boost performance, hedge funds are entering the market at a risky moment. |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Bond Woes Add To Banks' Problems With even the fixed-income business faltering, bank earnings are looking dismal. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Hedge Funds Find An Escape Hatch The loophole: Locked-up funds don't require oversight. That means more risk for investors. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Dan Wheeler |
Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
D. Quinn Mills |
The Problem with Hedge Funds Hedge funds are the New Big Thing -- and that's bad for the average investor, says professor D. Quinn Mills. An excerpt from Wheel, Deal, and Steal. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Investment Banking Business: Money Management These days, investment banks do much more than just investment banking. In addition to traditional asset management they're getting involved in hedge funds and private equity. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2010
Mac Greer |
How Wall Street's Quants Lost Billions and Lived to Tell About It Author Scott Patterson talks about his book, The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Bruce W. Fraser |
Hedge Funds Continue To Mushroom While the sector is experiencing growing pains and a high mortality rate, the major challenge hedge funds face today is building capacity to meet growing demand for higher returns from institutions and high-net-worth individuals. |
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Marla Brill |
Hedging Your Bets A growing group of market-neutral mutual funds have distilled the essence of hedge fund investing into a more regulated, liquid and accessible format. |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Anne Tergesen |
A Fee Frenzy At Hedge Funds Add in extra charges for items such as audits, account administration, and trader bonuses, and the average hedge-fund investor pays as much as 3.5% of assets a year. |
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2011
Michael P. Hedden |
Bid vs. Ask Motivated investors are closing the pricing gap on institutional assets. |
