So when the stock market finally does begin to recover, you'll see this rush of hedge fund money back into stocks.

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In anticipation of this rush into shares, fund managers are scrambling to build their brands in Europe.

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Wall Street, which has risen to dizzying heights on a steady rush of equity-fund money, is already at their mercy.

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Indeed, in IBRA's rush to meet International Monetary Fund deadlines, there are criticisms that some debtors are being treated too leniently.

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When private equity fund raising was at its peak, Forbes wondered about the ''mad rush to private equity'' in a March 2006 cover story, questioning the wisdom pension funds and endowments were showing.

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"It's a mistake to rush headlong into this, " said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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