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The most precious commodity on Wall Street is information, and savvy players will do almost anything for it.
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But now some of Wall Street’s biggest hedge funds are watching nervously as...
What a difference a crash can make. After labeling hedge funds as risky for years, fund companies now think their tactics are the answer for smaller investors. It’s easy to see why. Last year,...
Some mutual funds use similar investment strategies as hedge funds, the freewheeling, lightly regulated investment pools for the ultra-rich. Should you invest in hedge-like mutual funds?
This article in the FT suggests that the Madoff ponzi scheme is going to have a lasting impact on the financial crisis as it undermined the core element of trust that is supposed to be pervasive.
Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze is complaining because the government's bankruptcy settlement for Chrysler puts the worker's underfunded pension obligations above his bond investments. He...
Interesting commentary on hedge funds and their use of leverage, credit-default swaps and short selling:
Hedge funds, in my opinion, haven't received nearly as much blame as they deserve, both...
Investors in a Sarasota-based hedge fund could be out $350 million, and the man behind it has vanished. Managers of the fund are telling clients that their money is gone, and they do not know if...
Hedge fund manager John Paulson has profited more than anyone else from the financial crisis. His $3.7 billion payday in 2007 broke every record, and he made it all by betting against homeowners,...
Many wealthy investors and institutions who thought that hedge funds would protect them from a declining market are discovering that these funds lost tremendous amounts of money this year and are...
This article suggests that the next thing to happen is a run on hedge funds. As the article also points out, this could lead to a viscous cycle of selling.
Phil Goldstein quit being an engineer for the City of New York and taught himself the art of closed-end funding investing. Since then he has made a small fortune and battled the SEC, but now the...
The celebrated investor wagers a tidy sum that even carefully chosen hedge funds won't return more than the market over time.
Buffet gives the edge to the S&P fund due to all the fees and costs...
Hedge Funds, generally considered the riskiest of financial operators have begun to question the credit worthiness of some of their prime brokers.
"Some of the world’s biggest hedge funds...