Legendary hedge funder Michael Steinhardt has been merely an interested bystander in this year's hedge fund blowup.
In the hedge fund's case, the Federal Reserve, fearing for the financial system, brokered a rescue.
Because there's hedge fund managers and law partners who are making millions -- right?
The hedge fund's strategy was also the subject of a January 2008 Wall Street Journal article.
Nomura would, according to other charts, also win a large slice of Asia's hedge fund business.
Sniffing out fraud and shorting its perpetrators has been a nice earner for Asia's hedge funds.
Part of the hedge fund's strategy involved purchasing risky assets from other investment banks.
Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman's hedge fund, owns a 7.8% stake in the discount retailer.
Two of the bank's hedge funds have imploded and a third has stopped investors from withdrawing funds.
Gudefin's hedge fund background helps explain two of her other specialties at Discovery: merger arbitrage and distressed-debt investing.
Yet John Meriwether, the hedge fund's founder and a former head of trading at Salomon Brothers, remains a shady figure.
After graduating she went to work for Richard Perry's hedge fund firm, Perry Capital, where she helped open a London office.
The hedge manager's pitch may sound like this: I'm using some sophisticated arbitrage strategies, and I'm going for a 50% return.
Last year was the only one of the past ten in which funds of funds did not trail the company's hedge-fund index.
While the average stock fund fell by about 40% that year, the average hedge fund's drop was about 20%, according to Morningstar.
Prosecutors say Mr Gupta had a financial interest in the success of Galleon, Mr Rajaratnam's hedge fund, because he was an investor.
Apart from Man, arguably the biggest pure hedge fund to embrace full orthodoxy is GLG Partners, Europe's largest hedge fund, which floated last year.
But George Wachsmann of BAWM, which runs money for wealthy families in Brazil, warns that asset-gathering could hurt the performance of the firm's hedge funds.
During a three-week trial last summer, jurors heard testimony that Whitman's hedge fund made trades over a three-year period based on inside information related to Google Inc.
The hedge fund's name, Capella, is that of a bright star, part of a constellation with several smaller stars nearby, and it describes the way Gartmore manages money.
After the hedge fund froze redemptions, Aris also claims that Guerra cooked up a bad deal featuring the 28 airplanes that made up 30% of the hedge fund's assets.
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The case against Raj Rajaratnam and Galleon traces back to a 2007 civil insider-trading investigation involving Rengan Rajaratnam's hedge fund, Sedna Capital Management, by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
When Guy's hedge fund was launched, it was a new idea in the U.K. Since then, several other firms have started to run hedge funds alongside their traditional funds.
Personally, I prefer beaten-down techies to hedge Gilder's flyers.
William Galvin, the secretary of the commonwealth, charged UBS Securities Wednesday with several counts of dishonest and unethical business activities and failure to supervise employees after months of investigation into the firm's hedge fund hotel operations.
These questions are raised once again by this latest batch of stockmarket advisories, a set of four books which advocate everything from the slothful approach of Burton Malkiel's indexers to Peter Krass's hedge funders and options traders.
Mr Cook said that Apple's cash was a "serious subject" but repeated his opinion that a lawsuit from activist shareholder Greenlight Capital was a "silly sideshow", despite a judge finding in favour of David Einhorn's hedge fund last week.
In the late 1990s the hedge fund's collapse sent ripples throughout the financial world similar to those we are witnessing today, yet it was overseen by the brilliant economic team of Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, who earlier shared a Nobel prize in economics.
Manhattan's U.S. attorney says Chilowitz, a former employee in Morgan Stanley's information technology department, stole a list of Morgan Stanley's hedge fund clients and the calculations of rates each paid for prime brokerage services, a booming business for investment banks that includes securities lending and financing.
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