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Hedge Fund (Medium-Sized) Mega Growth
When Big Isn’t Necessarily Better Sometimes it’s just not all about size. Especially right now, when we’re analyzing the recent performance of hedge funds. Taking a look at what happened last year, it seems that it was these hedge funds that, according to an article in The Financial Times, enjoyed “the largest net asset growth [...]
Alternative Investments Presentation
Blackrock Alternative Investors: Greater Role for Alternatives A recent presentation delivered by Blackrock Alternative Investors focused on the positive aspects of alternative investments along with the “diversifying role they can play in institutional client portfolios.” There were three speakers: Matthew Botein (MD and company head); Marcus Sperber (head of the company’s international real estate business) [...]
Financial Crisis: Good News for Citigroup?
Hedge Funds Helping Banks Just because on one side of the coin things can look disastrous, does not mean that this will be the case for the other side of the coin. In fact, just by looking at various big name banks, one can see how the financial crisis may have in some way been [...]
Hiking Hedges
Hedge Funds’ April Increase Hedge funds increased 1.86 percent last month and industry assets hit their own record of $2.02 trillion. Indeed, the Paulson Gold fund had what to celebrate last month, going up 8.4 percent. But it was good news all around for the hedge fund industry last month, especially with the peak in [...]
Small Hedge Funds Catch the Eye of Pension Programs
Established investors have been taking more notice of smaller hedge funds recently. Doug Rothschild, managing director at Agecroft Partners said “Over the next ten years we will see a significant increase in the percentage of their hedge fund portfolio away from the largest managers to small and mid-sized managers.” Rothschild and his company feel the [...]
What are Taft-Hartley Pension Funds?
As our financial crisis continues to become more complex and difficult to fathom, many different types of funds are being discussed in the news. One type of fund that is frequently discussed is the Taft-Hartley Pension Fund. These funds came into existence as a result of an act of congress in 1947 as part of [...]