The combined company took the name Jazz Technologies and changed its stock ticker from AQR to JAZ.

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That amounted to "bullying, " one prominent fund manager, Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management, wrote on his personal web page.

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Mr. Asness is the managing and founding principal of AQR Capital Management.

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Asness of AQR Capital (who says he is speaking for himself and not his company) says the hedge funds are acting as they should act.

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At least one, AQR, had asked its lawyers to grill the fund's prime brokers about the fate of its assets in the event of their demise.

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In a recent interview with Forbes, AQR Capital Management co-founder Cliff Asness explained why not everything hedge funds (or any asset managers) offer are worth premium fees.

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Using mid-quote prices for point-in-time benchmarks garnered support from 65 percent and using Bloomberg unadjusted AQR as a basis for measuring VWAP won the support of 63 percent of respondents.

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But AQR co-author Dean Headley says full-price and premium airlines like Virgin tend to attract more complaints than low-cost economy carriers, so Virgin might have taken a hit on customer complaints because its passengers expect more than those flying other airlines.

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