Goldman Raising Commercial Real Estate Fund...   Emergent Has Two New Funds in Pipeline...   Prime Broker Role Questioned in Peloton Fall...   Do Growing Commodity Assets Promote Speculation?...   Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index & Sub-Index Net Performance...   Hedge Funds Regain Ground in April...   People Briefs...   Ag Prices May Test Microfinance Model...   Senate Bill Brings NYMEX, ICE Together...   Wheat's Decline Puts Bell Up 13.5% in April...   Hedgeweek Comment: Eggs in different baskets...   Divorce is good for trading; CITY SPY...   Pension fund may be out $2.6m Potential loss spurs talk of state role...   Hedge fund SRM leads legal fight over Rock deal...   Œ20,000 CITY JOBS WILL GO' IN CREDIT CRUNCH FALLOUT...   Fortress Investment...   Sacked chief takes action against HFA...   S. KOREA TO ALLOW HEDGE FUNDS NEXT YEAR: WATCHDOG...   Wanting to believe the worse is over...   Emperor Soros's new clothes; BUSINESS - Matthew Lynn says hedge-fund pioneer and currency speculator George Soros is still a brilliant player of markets - but as a philosopher, frankly, he's incomprehensible...   Gottex MarketNeutral - Annual Information Update...   New Star Absolute - EGM Statement...   Hagin Investment Management launches market neutral fund...   DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF THE SENATE HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE CONSUMER-FIRST ENERGY ACT OF 2008...   GulfMark Offshore Unduly Punished...   RISING GASOLINE PRICES...   Fallen Wall Street Loudmouths In Escalating Trash Talk Feud [Payback]...   PLUS-SIZE PROBLEM - INVESTORS SKIRT DECISIONS ON CHARMING...   Once mum, fund chiefs now ready to open up...   Merrill Lynch scraps plans to spin off hedge fund, head trader leaves...   TOP TRADING DUO QUITTING MERRILL...   Democrats: Close speculation loophole...   $15.6 billion outflows from UBS’ alternative and traditional funds...   Bohong launches quantitative market neutral fund in China...   From riches to rags...   Markel and Aspen feel full force of credit crisis; Volatile markets hammer US giants' earnings...   Far More Than Just A Stockbroker...   Electranet Capital launching energy efficiency hedge fund...   Heads they win, tails they're even; INSIDE THE MARKETS...   S. KOREA, CHINA, JAPAN, ASEAN AGREE TO LAUNCH MONETARY FUND...   Asia worries over food futures trading...   Former Dillon Read CIO Hutchins intends to launch new hedge fund...   Softer slide at Sears; Lampert says lower debt will help retailer survive...   Short's Story...   Strange Behavior...   Hedge Fund Manager Tells All in New Book...   Speculators are betting on dollar's gain against euro...   Kansas hedge fund files slander lawsuit...   Jordan payout slashed...   Leave well alone; Maybe Bank Leumi is fine just the way it is....   Japan accused of blocking foreign funds; Government to reject British group's bid to raise stake in power company...   Asian hedge fund assets drop 10% in the first quarter...   Quant and 130/30 trading drive volatility...   Hedge funds are hedging about giving money back...   Opportunities in the credit crunch environment...   Reza Satchu, 38; 'Always seek positions of discomfort'...   Can they all be friends once the dust settles?...   HEDGE FUNDS SUE BANKS OVER CLEAR CHANNEL BUY...   Short sellers vilified, yet again; Suspicions, and scrutiny, rise as many investors suffer losses...   TCI accuses J-Power of 'lack of respect' for shareholders; Business News IN BRIEF...   Money trail leads to the Middle East US deal makers find a wealth of investors, but some are wary...   WARBURG HEDGES DEBT TEAM...   'SUN' ISN'T SHINING ON SHARPER IMAGE BID...   BOE: Hedge fund retreat will reduce market liquidity...   Hedge funds/private equity boost Presidential campaign donations by 9% in March...   HedgeCo Networks secures investment from Inter-Atlantic Group...   Hedgeweek Comment: Activism on the rise...   Rydex Investments launches retail alternative fund of funds...   Fortress reportedly providing SageCrest with emergency loan...   Hedgeweek Comment: In search of common standards...   The Secrets of Top Hedge Fund Performance...   Don't sell Sigma short; IPTV is an up and coming industry with lots of room to grow....   Useful Media Relations 101 [Public Relations]...   The Importance of Price Signals in the MBS MarketPortfolio.com: Market Movers...   Wall Street v the City? It was never a real contest...   Next Best Thing To A Free Sandwich: A Bunch of Hedge Fund Guys Get Fired...   Not hedging his bets; Big Brown co-owner Iavarone is sparing no expense to live dreams...   London loses capital gains...   Fed may get new powers to supervise investment strategies of banks and funds...   Study: Managers under high water mark take extra risks to boost performance fees...   Reaping the benefits of the commodities boom...   Follow Swensen's Yale Endowment Fund...   Holding Capital backs RKC Capital’s new funds...   GAS PRICES AND THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE...   Jefferies slashes hedge fund exposure, adds commodities...   Hedge funds caught up in agricultural commodities bubble...   Investigation explores aborted Jade Technologies deal in Singapore...   ANYWHERE BUT HERE...   Polar Capital Hldgs - Proposed Fund Launch...   Aviva Investors to acquire US real estate multi-manager Madison Harbor...   Stringent but flexible regime in Gibraltar creates platform for growth...   Funds to diversify lines as Asian stocks decline; INVESTING...   'Bad Money' takes sobering look at current economic crisis...   UT investment arm decides to wait on change to ethics rules...   Hedge-fund techniques cushion mutual funds...   Doug Maloney: No billionaire left behind, thanks to highly skilled lobbyists...   Academics Discover Two Plus Two Equals Four...   The $3-billion prophet of doom...   Mortgage bonds draw investors with a hunch; INVESTING...   Investors hedged in by a great con...   A Boon for T. Boone...   Only the Men Survive; The Crash of Zoe Cruz...   Bear funds gain notice as markets in turmoil; Short-selling financial, housing stocks pays off...   Schroders launches multi-asset fund...   Your Pain, Their Gain...   Tantamount to financial terrorism; Neil Barnett says hedge funds should be forced to reveal their trading secrets, to deter them from the kind of market manipulation that has recently hit Icelandic banks...   Micrel Sends Letter to Shareholders; Highlights Inexperience of OCM Nominees and Inaccurate Assertions Made by Newly Formed Hedge Fund;...   How long can oil keep defying gravity?; $125US a barrel now in sight, but some predict rapid sell-off later...   TCI Rejects Japanese Government Ruling to Limit Stake in J-Power...   Martin Currie sustains growth...   NOT SO CHARMING POWER STRUGGLE...   Asia offers a wealth of opportunities; Despite US economic woes, institutions are still looking to hire experienced professionals across all sectors in the region, writes Chris Davis overview...   Kate O'Neill resigns from Henderson Global Investors...   Babson Capital Management acquires distressed debt manager Murray Capital...   TCI rejects Japan's request on J-Power bid withdrawal...   SEC sues short seller; alleges false rumors on Alliance Data LBO...   Airport smoke turns foggy...   News Digest; ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS - Gabelli Funds LLC Agrees To Pay $16 Million to...   TESTIMONY CONCERNING REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR SOVEREIGN INVESTMENTS...   A hedge fund and the modern day version of bank robbery...   BlackRock misses $500 mln target for fund of hedge funds feeder vehicle...   Aida Fund Limited - Preliminary Announcement...   SEN. SANDERS: HIGH OIL, GAS PRICES NATIONAL EMERGENCY...   MAKING MILLIONS IN MINUTES: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIASTUDENT HEDGE FUND TOURNAMENT...   Goldman Sach’s Petershill buys 20% stake in Trafalgar...   The call of Wall Street Credit crisis aside, MBAs are still graduating in droves and finding work...   Allco in battle to keep head above water...   Sears loses a $1 billion letter of credit...   Och-Ziff caught in bad investment in Japan...   Bubble and Bail...   How We Got Into This Mess...   Norwegian Government pension continues to seek hedge funds...   Investors concerned about managers’ freezing redemptions...   Mandelson attacks Japan's block on fund...   UBS tells shareholders it forgot about risk in drive for profits...   Class action against Citigroup over hedge fund losses...   Assessing hedge fund manager’s shorting skills...   DBS confirms exit of global markets head; David Lau to set up hedge fund; will stay till May 15 to help successor settle in...   CAN ANYONE RUN CITIGROUP?...   Tale of Two Economies...   Ermitage launches UK-listed products linked to funds of hedge funds...   Red Kite developing commodities funds in Hong Kong and Australia...   Waterstone Market - Issue of New Series...   Systematic Absolute Return to survey environmental alternative investment universe...   Dillon contributes to 16% of UBS subprime losses as UBS details mistakes...   HEDGE FUND'S THREAT TO QUIT CAPITAL IN NON-DOM TAX PROTEST...   More mutual funds play both sides of the market...   Brokers' hedge fund exposure seen at $1US.4t; OECD estimate includes loans of securities, repos, derivatives deals...   Opes Prime court hearing underway...   Numbers don't add up for faddish 130/30 funds...   Hedge funds lose ground in 2008; India funds worst performers...   HFR: Asset flows come to a halt in Q1...   It's a motley crew at Gordon's breakfast for bankers at No.10; CITY SPY...   Mott says hedge funds may suffer from BoE's bank plan...   Hedge fund whiz deserves his $3US.7b, and our thanks...   CAMPAIGN '08: RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; The trail gets bumpy for Chelsea Clinton; The poised and smart former first daughter is increasingly met with the kind of scrutiny that candidates face....   China property bonds are drawing investors; INVESTING...   N.Y. Times Co. posts loss; Severe ad slump besets newspaper industry...   Iceland's hot economy can't escape downturn...   Pension funds fire underperforming hedge fund managers...   10 Ways the World Could End and How to Play Them...   Changing role of the consultant...   BlackRock building up portfolio of hedge and credit funds ahead of eventual upturn...   EW portfolio review proposed...   HEDGE FUND OCTAVIAN SETS UP ASIAN JV WITH GOSCHAWK GROUP...   Lack of debt doesn't boost firms' stock; Investors don't seem to reward prudent companies...   Hedge funds studying student loans...   Japan to block U.K. bid for stake...   The masters of Wall St. cash in amid the chaos; Hedge fund chiefs earned billions in '07...   KGR ABSOLUTE RETURN PCC LTD - Acquisition of KGR Capital...   3 hedge fund chiefs hit $3 billion in 2007...   OECD estimates that prime broker exposure to hedge funds is $1.4 trillion...   Govt panel opposes British hedge fund's J-Power bid...   NEW STAR FUND BOSS HAS A PEASE OF THE ACTION...   Hedge fund manager rakes in $3.7B...   THE MERGER OF DELTA AND NORTHWEST; Big money behind the scenes...   HEDGE FUND OCTAVIAN SETS UP ASIAN JV WITH GOSCHAWK GROUP...   Institutions’ due diligence on hedge funds...   Where is the Hedge Fund Industry Going, 2 Years Later?...   Algebra Capital Launches MENA Fixed Income Fund...   Invesco Quantitative Strategies Announced; New Name More Accurately Reflects Investment Styles...   SEI Selected by Silver Creek Capital Management to Provide Fund Operations Outsourcing; Company's expertise and tailored offering drives success among alternative investment managers...   Institutional faith keeps managers buoyant...   Imagineer Technology Group Releases Latest Version of Its Portfolio Management Platform for Hedge Fund Allocators...   Clearview Capital Fund II Holds Final Close on $250 Million...   Hedge fund pricing and model uncertainty...   Investcorp holds lecture in Kuwait on the Role of Hedge Funds in Diversifying Investment Portfolios...   Candice Beaumont Selected as Speaker at the Alternative Investing East Summit in Virginia; Investment Expert to Take Part in Panel Discussion on Investing in Commodities...   Personal Wealth: Assessing deleveraging risks of hedge funds...   QUOTABLE...   UK-Based Prop Desk Selects QuantHouse Ultra Low Latency Market Data Solution Through Reliance Globalcom; Reliance Globalcom's Financial Extranet, Yipes FinancialConnect!, Provides Speed and On-Demand Scalability to Shorten Trading Cycle and Optimize Network Resources...   Smart Trade Launches Advanced Smart Order Router (SOR), LiquidityOrchestrator, and Upgraded smartTrade Transaction Platform (STTP) 5.5; SOR Automatically Manages States of the Order and Reconciles Trades to Source Orders for MiFID and Reg NMS for Best Execution Trade Compliance; Creates Single-Vendor Solution Covering SOR, Aggregation, Internal Crossing and Connectivity...   Mallaby shows hedge funds that the best defense is a good offence...   Too Much of a Good Thing? (ProShares ETFs)...   Imagineer Technology Group Releases Latest Version of Its Portfolio Management Platform for Hedge Fund Allocators...   Hedge Funds Expect More Firms and Funds in 2008, Declining U.S. Economy According to New Survey From Rothstein Kass; Nearly Two-Thirds of Senior Hedge Fund Managers Predict Declining U.S. Economy, Over 90% Anticipate Significant Capital Inflows to the Industry...   KPMG: Pension funds insist on best practice hedge fund standards...   Govt panel opposes British hedge fund's J-Power bid...   News anchor offers look at Bear Stearns...   Commodity prices raised by low stockpiles, says Jim Rogers; Global investor dismisses claim that hedge funds are behind the increases...   TRIBUNE PARENT'S FIGHTING GETS UGLY...   Soros warns of 'biggest financial crisis of my lifetime'...   Veteran market trader speaks out...   Commentary: All eyes in Hong Kong on the strengthening yuan...   Hedge funds accused of 'smear campaign'; They tried to bankrupt us for profit, claims Icelandic bank...   Lawyers urge inquiry Rock loans leak...   Wimps at Anglo cry 'foul'...   Hedge fund boss plugs into new venture...   Trafalgar gunning for non-execs over sale of INS to Babcock...   UK private equity firms face talent shake-up...   Pardus Steps Up Pressure on Defiant Valeo...   Report: Iceland to back commercial banks against speculators...   Please, Mr. Chairman...   Carbon Finance Comes of Age...   Seizure in the Capital Markets and Its Impact on Washington's Investment-Grade Office Building Deal Volume...   Institutions and consultants discuss role of hedge funds/funds of funds going forward...   Interview With George Soros; Interview With Helen Mirren...   S'pore finance professionals happy with bonus: survey; 40% of respondents got a bigger payout than they did last year...   Harbert hedge fund trader ranked No. 2...   The forecast is gloomy for hedge funds in Asia; INVESTING...   Infovest21 Survey: 17% of institutions use 130/30 strategies...   Citigroup: Hedge fund commodity holdings at $75B...   Citadel names merchant banking head in Asia...   US WATCHDOG SUES LONDON HEDGE BOSS OVER TRADES...   Bio-Treat should give bad news prompt treatment...   Stronach plans to defeat shareholder plan to sell MEC...   RBC Hedge 250 Index(R) returned -2.51 per cent in March 2008; Year-to-date performance is -3.43 per cent...   Sowood manager looks to come back Larson plans smaller fund less than 1 year after losing $1.6b...   Finance system cries out for reform, but the right kind...   House hopeful muzzled?...   VULTURE FIRMS SWOOP IN ON BANKS' DEBT...   Distressed debt investors have Asia in their sights; DEALTALK...   Bleak future for companies backed by Opes Prime...   IMF: Staggering hedge fund losses on subprime, other credit assets...   Charlemagne’s assets slide 15% to $5.5B following negative performance...   West Palm Beach Hedge Fund Lawsuit...   Bank of Israel moves to limit funds investment in Leumi; The Bank of Israel is not happy that investment funds, which lack transparency, could control the bank....   Blackstone chief says Irish investors should now look beyond property to hedge funds...   Treasury targets hedge rules...   Merrill Lynch to Market Alternative Research Through a New Service Called Merrill Open Minds; Launches Merrill Open Minds with Seven Alternative Research Providers...   Paladyne and NumeriX Partner to Offer Pricing and Valuation for Exotic Derivatives and Structured Products...   Jade's designated status lifted, but questions remain; Hedge funds have also been taking up positions in the company's shares...   Traders position for Wall St drop; Singapore Exchange and banking stocks lead falls as ST Index sheds 51 points...   CHARLEMAGNE FALLS PREY TO CREDIT CRUNCH...   HSBC Halbis plans India mid-cap hedge fund...   Hedge fund stars hammered by market turmoil...   Value Partners plays down potential Oasis Airlines failure...   Financial turmoil could cost $1trn, warns IMF as global growth comes under threat...   Learning from Enron, Russia privatizes its electricity sector...   Mounting debt is creating opportunities in Asia; DEALTALK...   Morningstar Launches Morningstar Direct(SM) Alternative Investment Edition...   Refinancing saves Fortress from collapse...   HK hedge fund sues Singapore-listed Bio-Treat over notes issue - report...   Jim Rogers: More Pain for the Greenback, and the Failure of the Federal Reserve...   Volatility puts Schroders commodities trust launch on ice...   Korean chaebol, hedge funds, and double standards...   Strategic Recovery launches new servicing unit...   Tennenbaum Capital Partners appoints chief investment strategist...   JMP Securities appoints new managing director...   Watchdog: hands off the hedge funds; IN BRIEF...   Fund chiefs make £400m each from credit crunch...   Waiting for the market tumble; CITY COMMENT...   Asia's Top Ten Hedge Funds...   Hedge fund managers, by far, top fund earners in 2007 - Paulson at top...   Fund manager Paulson rides out economic storm to bank $3bn...   SuperDerivatives: SuperDerivatives Adds Liquidation Exit' Pricing to Portfolio Revaluation Services; New offering addresses financial risk in OTC options and regulatory requirements such as FAS 157...   Lansdowne still debating whether to go public, CEO says...   NorthPoint Trading Partners Continues Growth, Capitalizing on Its Long/Short Trading Strategies Niche; Firm Partners With Gemini Fund Services, LLC to Provide Fund Managers With Seamless Execution of Alternative Management Strategies...   Marketcetera Closes $4 Million Series A Financing Led by Shasta Ventures; Proceeds to Expand Engineering and Marketing Operations...   Looking for an End to Deleveraging...   Shoreline Trading Group Grows Prime Brokerage Services; Industry Vet Marigliano Joins Firm...   Soros says: 'I told you so' and what to expect now...   Leap Wireless emerged from bankruptcy with hedge funds snapping up the debt...   Distributor sues producer of '3:10 to Yuma' over DVD deal...   Tough road ahead for hedge funds; Inside the Markets...   Alternative Investment Division Launch In London...   HOMES CRISIS: CITY CHIEFS MAKE £800M...   '08 shaping up as boom year for proxy battles...   Absolute Return...   Living With Vix...   For Deposits Only...   Gold Chasers...   Cayman Islands: Investment Funds - Listing on The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange...   Dawnay Day Milroy - Appointment of Directors...   Gottex’s market neutral funds help firm achieve asset and profit growth...   As Wall Street reels, opportunists swoop in for bargains...   Street back to wearing rose-colored glasses...   Mercury News Interview: Hedge fund manager saw subprime meltdown coming...   SKYBUS SHUTDOWN; How could it happen?; Fuel prices, management woes jolted airline into sudden tailspin...   Ocean venture brings hedge fund option to New Zealand shores...   Equity long/short strategies in US in cash and short biased positions...   Here come the quants...   Boeing doubling hedge fund allocation to 6% (Table)...   Sidley Expands in London with Hiring of Hedge Fund and Financial Markets Partner, Bruce Gardner...   Och-Ziff’s hedge fund decline in Q3 contributes to asset fall...   SEC sues Pentagon over mutual fund trades; Business News IN BRIEF...   BEAR NECESSITIES; House prices falling, markets tumbling, mortgages vanishing, redundancies looming... As the economy lurches from one crisis to the next, even hedge-fund sharks are struggling to understand what's really going on. But fear not:Sean O'Grady can steer us all through the jargon-infested waters...   Zoellick urges new investing in Africa...   ING Investment Management - Americas Hires William Bonde as Co-Head of Expanding Hedge Fund of Funds Group...   The alchemy of finance...   Who's bumping up food prices?; Investors desperate for better returns choosing commodities, but they are only partly to blame...   When leveraged funds are bad, they're very, very bad; Losses get magnified, so they're best left to the professionals...   in this field, battered firm came out on top...   MCF Asset Management Hires Matt Kelmon and Launches New Options-Based Cash Flow Investment Strategy...   The Future of Advertising...   Abraxas fund switches administrator to LaSalle Global Fund Services...   Will there be enough distressed debt to go around?...   Confidence Crisis Prolongs Credit Crisis...   Charming Shoppes urges shareholders to back CEO...   SEN. 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