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business.timesonline.co.uk - 12/19/2008
Hedge fund failures to hit record as investors flee
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A record number of almost 1,000 hedge funds will be forced into liquidation this year as torrid investment markets take their toll of the alternative investment industry and worried investors redeem funds. A total of 693 hedge funds crashed during the nine months to the end of September, ...
online.wsj.com - 12/26/2008
Public Pension Funds Don't Flee
— online.wsj.com — Hedge funds have suffered through their worst year in more than a decade, punctuated by the Bernard... Madoff scandal. But some public pension funds aren't writing them off, at least not yet. Chief investment officers for pension funds note that despite ... (more) Public Pension Funds Don't Flee
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THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 19 December 2008
FiNTAG - Hedge Fund News, Views, Opinions and Gossip — ... made up. Read this instead. I only make up the bits that you want me to [Editor: You mean your six pack for example?]. Financial News have a Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager too. I can tell you that who ever writes this plagarises fintag.com big time. Another journalist pretending to be something they are not. Makes my blood boil. Thankfully Financial News is subscription only so nobody reads it. Phew! HEDGE FUND FAILURES TO HIT RECORD AS INVESTORS FLEE times ...

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