Earlier this year, another Quadrangle hedge fund split off from the PE firm.
Almost any hedge fund is off-limits, because of the genre's anything-goes investing style.
Two other hedge funds have broken off settlement talks and countersued Hayes.
Bad mortgage investments have already killed off two hedge funds at Bear Stearns, so investors in this country heard the news with alarm.
If you are going to hedge you are better off betting against the weakest part of the market rather than betting against the whole market.
One of the things that's happening right now is that hedge funds have sold off assets and are just keeping the money around as cash on their balance sheets.
Then some hedge fund may start off their new trading robot designed to do clever things across markets, but whoops, off flies a few tens of millions of dollars in the wrong direction.
Stamboulie had a client who was laid off from a hedge fund research post.
First, the country dodged the hedge fund speculation that set off a chain of currency crises across Asia in the late 1990s.
And second, hedge funds are not so off-the-radar as one may think.
John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who pulled off the greatest trade ever by betting against subprime mortgage securities, has experienced two difficult years.
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John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who pulled off the greatest trade ever betting against subprime mortgage securities, is the largest owner of Gabriel, owning a 16% stake through his hedge funds.
So far, the hedge funds have not been put off by the new rules.
Morgan Stanley (MS) spun off its FrontPoint Partners hedge fund unit, parting company with co-heads Dan Waters and Mike Kelly.
Tom Marchant of U.K.-based adventure travel planning firm Black Tomato says hedge fund clients want unusual and off-the-beaten path destinations, challenges to take their minds off number crunching.
The business-software company adopted a shareholder-rights plan to fend off a proxy fight by hedge fund Elliot Associates LP.
Julius Baer, another medium-sized bank, sold its institutional stockbroking arm in 2003 and is now spinning off GAM, its volatile hedge-fund operation.
Is it kosher for one part of Goldman to help a board fend off advances made by a hedge fund that another part of Goldman is aiding?
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Major market participants including corporate insiders and hedge funds did not believe the rally off the June low was justified and were already selling into it at an unusual pace, and increased their selling after the Fed announced in September that it would provide QE3.
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The blog Zero Hedge surmises Paulson could have made billions more off shorting the brokers as the world headed into the great financial crisis.
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We don't think you should put any money in a hedge fund like this one, which skims off 20% of gains plus an annual fee of 2% of assets.
Nowadays hedge funds pick up where the individual traders leave off.
By publishing their findings, the professors may unleash a flood of trades by hedge funds and other market sharks seeking to pick off the excessive profits hitherto made by CEOs on their options.
Some fund managers also worry that banks they sue will restrict their allocation of bonds in future offerings, while hedge funds fret that their prime brokers will close off finance to them, says David Grais, a lawyer who works with aggrieved investors.
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Since the late 1940s, when an American journalist, Alfred Winslow Jones, began taking off-setting positions in shares to hedge market risk, New York City and (more recently) a swathe of leafy suburbs radiating from Greenwich, Connecticut, have been the centre of what became the hedge-fund world.
Its proposals would also help mutual fund companies fend off growing competition from exchange-traded and hedge funds.
It has reportedly fired off more than 50 subpoenas, largely to hedge funds.
These days, though, holding off reinvesting is worth considering as a partial hedge against rising interest rates and falling prices.
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