Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), a New York fund, came close to precipitating a global crisis in 1998.
The Argentine government and the Fund are close to a state of open warfare: as the IMF continues to insist that any rescue package for the country depends on commitment to urgent reform, the Argentine finance minister on September 24th threatened to default on the country's debt to the Fund.
It had been feared the landmark would have to close, but a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund combined with extra funding from Glasgow City Council has secured its future.
The trend, says David Sherman, manager of the RiverPark Short Term High Yield (RPHYX) bond fund could be drawing to a close.
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The New York Mets and David Einhorn will not close their deal to make the hedge fund manager a minority owner in the baseball team this month.
That said, selling in XLK remained significant and if traders and investors become less risk-seeking, the fund could see a second consecutive lower close.
Pequot is an influential hedge fund founded by Arthur Samberg, a close friend of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) Chief Executive John Mack, the Wall Street executive for whom the SEC allegedly played favorites.
Fidelity managed to stem the tide only in September of this year when it announced, with a stroke of psychological genius, that it would close the fund to new retail investors because it had become too big to manage.
And while such close interactions with wildlife is definitely a delicate topic, local tour operators have teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund to create some best practices for the tours.
"Essentially all that needs to happen is that a separate, flexible fund could be used to be to top up these schools which would otherwise close, " he said.
Head of the World Wide Fund for Nature Scotland, Simon Pepper, said the Liberal Democrats scored reasonably well with Labour a close second and the Scottish National Party third.
Over the next few years, the two men grew close, staying in touch as Mr. Longueuil moved to Connecticut in 2004 to work for Empire Capital, a hedge fund where Mr. Freeman helped him land a job, associates say.
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