But Och will eventually have to score some big returns for the shares of his publicly traded hedge fund firm to reach the level of its 2007 initial public offering.
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The government in December criminally charged Ms. Jiau with providing inside information about publicly traded companies to hedge-fund managers.
The fund invests in publicly traded real estate operating companies or investment trusts.
The securities the fund holds are rarely publicly traded and often are subject to collateral agreements that contain terms that must be considered in establishing their value.
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Another reason to like Cracker Barrel is the presence of an activist investor helping to keep pressure on the company to improve performance: Sardar Biglari, the 35-year old Iranian-American manager of the Lion Fund and CEO of publicly traded Biglari Holdings (BH).
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These consultants were the real sources of information from inside of publicly traded companies and Primary Global played matchmaker with hedge fund managers looking for a hot tip.
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More recently, all four publicly traded data-center REITs took a tumble after hedge-fund manager Jonathon Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, raised questions earlier this month about how Digital Realty accounts for certain capital expenditures, while warning of rising competition.
Mr. Madoff's many honorable and accomplished clients chose to deal with their man outside the institutional checks that come from, say, a heavily regulated bank or a highly transparent mutual fund, perhaps one whose parent is also publicly traded and doubly subject to the checks of a watchful stock market.
The hedge-fund manager recently has been deeply critical of some publicly traded companies, speaking out against Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
The iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund ( EFA) is designed to track the performance of publicly traded securities in the European, Australasian, and Far Eastern markets.
Plus, the big brokers, banks and mutual fund companies that act as custodians for most IRAs generally limit investments to publicly traded stock, bonds, mutual funds and bank CDs.
Qteros, a private Massachusetts biofuels company backed by Soros Fund Management and other investors, is announcing a partnership with Praj Industries of India, a publicly traded builder of ethanol plants.
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The exchange-traded fund iShares MSCI Spain Index ( EWP), which corresponds to the price and yield performance of publicly traded securities in the Spanish markets, is down -24.6% this year.
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