portfolio.com - 11/11/2008
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T he past several years, the most valued people in our society were those who could make money from money. They weren’t cancer researchers or astrophysicists. They weren’t even the really important people, like N.B.A. players or movie stars. They were hedge fund managers. Last year, ...
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richard-wilson.blogspot.com - 11/10/2008
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blogmaverick.com - 11/14/2008
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As I watch and read about the Hedge
Fund testimony currently going on, its obvious that the...
right question has not been asked. 1. Those who give money to hedge funds rarely if ever have a 1 year investment term. In fact, the contracts for ...
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THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 11 November 2008
FiNTAG - Hedge Fund News, Views, Opinions and Gossip —
... Fintag says This is the upshot of never saying a word. Citadel are fine. Just not as well as they were 12 months ago. THE HEDGE FUND COLLAPSE portfolio ...
Tuesday links: stretching the limits
Abnormal Returns —
... “The hedge fund mystique died with the crash of 2008.” (Portfolio.com) ...
End of the Hedge Fund Era?
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... cases their black-box investing techniques—seemed only to bring in more money.
So much for that. The hedge fund mystique died with the crash of 2008. Youthful traders and big shots from investment banks won’t soon be given billions to invest based on their résumés. Mystery and opacity will be a negative, not cause for reward. Regulators, one hopes, are unlikely to again ignore an industry that, under their noses, grabbed at its peak nearly $2 trillion to manage.
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