As gold aversion surged, investors bought gold to hedge out tail risk and destructive scenarios, including a Cypriot Eurozone exit and political risk in Italy, where Pier Luigi Bersani has failed to garner support from Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo of the 5-Star Movement to form a government.
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As interest rates rise, we will find out people have to hedge or get out of those transactions.
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Bottom-fishing investment banks eventually bailed hedge funds out of their problems.
And then there seems to have been a third hedge taken out, described in today's Wall Street Journal as "protection on investment-grade bonds" - which appears to have been protection against the risk that the second hedge went wrong.
He featured prominently in Goldman's negotiations with fellow investment banks to bail out hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998.
On Wednesday, he gave a speech at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference where hedge funds give out investment ideas to raise money for charity.
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In the third quarter 213 hedge funds went out of business.
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That many broad based hedge funds missed out on playing the recovery in financials is worth at least a piece in The New York Times.
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But even being a hedge fund manager at FrontPoint (owned by Morgan Stanley) was not enough, Skowron took to insider trading to make sure he was the best hedge fund manager out there.
Even then, facilities are likely to shrink as non-bank investors such as hedge funds drop out of loan syndicates and banks that had only extended money in the hope of ancillary business also draw back.
Turns out hedge funds had placed bets even before Russell announced changes to its index, hoping to unwind those positions on the final day--or "front-running the reconstitution, " says Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard Group.
Another hedge fund retiree, James Simons, rounds out the top three richest hedge fund managers in America.
You should stay out of hedge funds and private equity pools that use borrowed money.
Sometimes they look like shiny-faced hedge fund managers just out of Wharton or Harvard Business School.
Progress on Barrick's plan to close out its hedge book will also draw close attention by industry analysts.
Some of the hot money that poured out of hedge funds could easily return at the first sign of stability.
Due to either denial or eternal optimism, some have flocked to hedge funds that hold out the possibility of stellar returns.
The last full year of net redemptions in recent memory was 1994, when 1% of clients' money was pulled out of hedge funds.
But hedge funds are still out there and one way that they try to out-earn the market averages is by getting an information edge.
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As the hedge fund titans lashed out at each other, shares in the nutritional supplement company soared, rising as much as 5.7% at one point.
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How many hedge funds were bailed out in September of 2008?
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Smart operators hedge positions by buying out of the money puts.
Manne thinks it would make more sense to let the insiders trade on what they know, and cut out the hedge-fund managers and their procurers entirely.
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Then search out a hedge fund that makes biotech investments.
According to Hedge Fund Wisdom, a quarterly publication put out by MarketFolly.com, nearly all top hedge fund portfolios have a long position in international stocks of all sizes.
Some East Coast hedge funds are even hanging out their shingles in Silicon Valley.
Ignon pointed out that the hedge funds will be largely responsible for funding the executive bonuses.
Mutual fund vendors decided to grab a bit of the glory by rolling out their own hedge-fund-like products.
McDonough sparked controversy in 1998 when he assembled 14 banks to bail out the collapsing hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.
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