More on MF Global client money ‘vaporization’, seeking safety in L-S equity, promising HF strategies for 2012 and more
By Chris ClairWhat’s news around the hedge fund industry for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012:
Around the web (p.m. edition)
Hedge fund investors seek safety in long-short equity. (Institutional Investor)
Greek officials attack E.U., IMF as debt talks stall. (The Guardian)
FCC seeks comment on Light Squared request. (FINalternatives)
Promising hedge fund strategies for 2012. (GAIM conference, via Hedge Fund Marketing Alliance)
Endowments slow to recover from 2008 crisis as hedge funds lag. (The Boston Globe)
Majedie Asset Management closes hedge fund at £350 million. (FINalternatives)
Hong Kong’s Tiger Asia Management court fight tests securities regulator’s offshore reach. (Bloomberg)
Ex-J.C. Flowers U.K. CEO Ravi Shankar Sinha fined over faking invoices. (Bloomberg, via SFGate)
For family of burned woman, an offer, but no help from Darren Weingrow. (The New York Times)
Juan Carlos Horna Napolitano gets 14 months in Francisco Illarramendi fraud case. (FINalternatives)
Derivatives valuations – the top 3 mistakes to avoid in your audit. (FinCAD)
HFR’s Kenneth Heinz discusses the state of the hedge fund industry at MFA’s Network 2012. (MFA Blog)
Moody’s: MF Global’s European sovereign bond bets were a surprise. (WSJ.com) That explains a lot, actually.
Questions not being asked regarding ‘vaporized’ segregated MF Global funds. (Managed Futures Education Center)
MF Global: Where’s the money? (Futures Magazine)
MF Global customer funds were not ‘vaporized’ – Stanley Haar takes The Wall Street Journal to task. (ZeroHedge)
Investors kick off 2012 with defensive stance: Reuters polls. (Reuters)
Three-fourths of Americans with mobile phones say they use them in the bathroom, a new study shows. (Fox Business)
Alden Global Capital maneuver sets off speculation about Philly newspapers. (Philly.com)
Volcker rule stirs up opposition overseas. (DealBook)
Centaur Galileo, the sports betting hedge fund inspired by Mark Cuban, collapses. (Huffington Post)
Yale’s David Swenson says index funds are the wisest choice for most investors. (Bloomberg)
Cowboy capitalism rides again: J.C. Flowers slap by FSA is the latest ‘rogue’. (MarketWatch)
Short sellers ring up $72 billion profit over 18 months. (The Australian)
CP executives hitting the road to defend their strategy. (The Globe and Mail)
Corzine seeking $2.9 million for Hoboken penthouse. (DealBook)
ICE to begin portfolio margining for bank credit swap trades. (Bloomberg)
Southpoint Capital Advisors fund raising over $230 million. (HedgeFund.net)
How to start, and run, a hedge fund. (Tom Groenfeldt on Forbes.com)
People moves
Deutsche Banker C.J. Lanktree departs to launch distressed debt fund. (WSJ.com)
February 16th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
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