Falcone said even struggling TerreStar which his main fund owns 30 percent of the telecom stock is not locked into a side pocket fund.
Yet we even see Bloomberg quoting unamed investor sources who say some LightSquared assets are in this side-pocket fund.
On the plus side, the fund is invested in the Chinese market via shares in the China Longyuan Power Group and the China Ming Yang Wind Power Group (MY).
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On the other side of the fund quality spectrum, IFPUX has attractive total annual costs of only 0.97% and allocates over 52% of its assets to attractive-or-better rated stocks.
On the due diligence side, the Fund has the obligation to protect against any of the monies coming in or going out of the Fund being exploited in the cause of terrorism.
This fund makes side bets on mortgage securities to soup up a portfolio that otherwise mirrors the index.
Buy-side traders for mutual fund empires, pension funds and banks see dark pools as the most likely place for information leakage.
On other side is another hedge fund giant, David Loeb of Third Point.
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The other proposals come down on the fund company side, but would likely result in higher fees for investors, which means lower returns for them.
Long term investors are still convinced the emerging markets are the place to be, but current market volatility makes it a tough call, especially from the mutual fund manager side.
Championship side Cardiff City played a fund-raising game at Penydarren Park earlier this month as the three-time Welsh Cup winners battle to survive.
It's rare, but sometimes a good manager at an expensive load fund can be found making a little extra money on the side by also running a cheaper, comparable no-load fund.
Redick of Harvard, as well as studies done by economists in such hotbeds of Keynesian, demand side economics as the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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This would allow traders and active investors to begin trading the fund from the long side for a change, taking advantage of short-term weakness rather than short-term strength as the bull market in FXI is restored.
On this plan, the EFSF could then be a proper European Monetary Fund, with one side managing adjustment programmes and (where necessary) orderly debt restructuring, and the other side using ECB liquidity to support confidence in solvent but troubled governments, by buying their bonds on the secondary market.
For all of the talk about analysts, bankers, traders and fund managers at buy-side and sell-side firms, the reality is that these firms also employ numerous assistants.
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It would not surprise me to see some fresh speculative and fund money enter the long side of the gold and silver markets as the new year gets under way.
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On the other side, the big investors in hedge fund are now institutions with much more rigorous reporting requirements than hedge fund managers had to deal with in the early days when their investors tended to be wealthy individuals or families.
But on Perancak Beach, on the southeast side of the island, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is working to educate villagers about the need for conserving the endangered turtles.
The fund-management industry is on their side, since lower transaction costs would boost its returns.
As the years go by, your fund, which starts on the risky side, is routinely rebalanced and becomes incrementally more conservative.
Now the person who needs monitoring is the person who is trading, whether it is a buy-side trader, an asset manager or a hedge fund.
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But if the other side of the swap is taken by a hedge fund whose finances are dependent on loans from that same bank, has risk really been transferred?
The SEC case insinuates that Goldman was helping one client (Paulson) to the detriment of the others (IKB and ACA Financial, which was brought in to select the portfolio collateral) and that it should have disclosed to the investors that Paulson, now a hedge fund megastar, was on the other side of the trade.
That may offer part of the explanation for why the Fund has come down so strongly on one side of the debate.
Bill Ackman delivered a thorough case for shorting Herbalife in December, and now fellow hedge fund superstar Daniel Loeb is taking the opposite side of that bet.
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Multiple players will help determine the campaign's flow, including Congress, hot Senate candidates, "527" groups (like "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" and the "Media Fund") and, notably, each side's surrogates.
The down side for Apple is that if Einhorn and other big hedge fund holders lose faith in the company as a timely investment, its share price might sink even further.
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The head of the Quantum Fund profits from the free market but worries about its side effects.
But fund managers often have an obvious incentive to err on the optimistic side.
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