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Prieur’s readings (October 21, 2009)

Prieur du Plessis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:27:13 +0000

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section.

Prieur’s readings (October 20, 2009)

Prieur du Plessis — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:43:50 +0000

The investment world, according to Julian Robertson

Prieur du Plessis — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:16:36 +0000

In this three-part video interview, Julian Robertson, chairman and CEO of Tiger Management, talks with Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor of the Financial Times, about US debt, China, lessons from the tech bust, the future of hedge funds, gold stocks, taxes and regulations. Good stuff!

Are the Bears Turning Bullish?

Chris Mayer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:12:22 +0000

pSome of Wall Street’s most prominent bears are turning bullish right now. But that doesn’t mean that your small-cap portfolio is safe. Here’s why these brilliant minds think that we’re back on the path to recovery — and why they’re wrong./p pI was in Manhattan last week attending Grant’s Fall Investment Conference. The U.N. General Assembly is meeting there, and the streets were blocked off in places. The NYPD was out in full force. I heard one passerby complain about the inconvenience of it all to one police officer. He responded, “Don’t blame the NYPD, blame the General Assembly.”/p pWith the General Assembly in Manhattan and the G-20 in Pittsburgh, government has taken over the headlines this week. It seems half the#8230;/p

G-20 Heats Up…

Contrarian Profits — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:07:47 +0000

p Dollar#8217;s rally is cut short#8230;Major problems for loans still exist#8230;Yen rallies on exporter repatriation#8230;Kiwi gets whacked! And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p pGood day#8230; And a Happy Friday to one and all! It#8217;s still raining here in St. Louis this morning, but I won#8217;t that get me down, as it is a Friday! G-20 has gotten a bit ugly, folks#8230; Seems everyone just can#8217;t seem to get along! Imagine that! 20 different countries, and now they want to be able to watch another country#8217;s finances and comment on them! Oh, I can see that working out real well! NOT!/p pSo#8230; Yesterday, we had the dollar gaining back the ground that it had lost the previous day, but at the end of the day, we#8217;re#8230;/p

Global Macro Trading

David Taggart — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:32:57 +0000

After being the largest hedge fund strategy in 1990 representing 71% of the overall hedge fund assets global macro has shrunk and now only represents about 15% of total assets. While most people assume that this dropoff in assets was due to poor performance the numbers actually show a totally different story. In fact according [...]

What to Expect Ahead/Quarter-End Mark Up

Michael E. Brisky — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:47:00 +0000

I'm fully expecting the funds to engage in the usual quarter-ending mark up, which means through the end of the month, I wouldn't be surprised if stocks run a bit. It can easily happen, and likely will. To begin with, volume has been relatively light and usually gets that way in the summer. Bottom line is, the funds like to make their numbers look good. Don't get in their way by trying to go short. br /br /I'm still hoping to buy at some better prices, and that will take a little more time. I'm fully expecting this quarter-end markup to take place as funds are trying desperately to attract that money that's currently sitting on the sidelines.br /br /Have a great weekend!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/819581243324579563-226785910987827801?l=briskycapital.blogspot.com'//div

Investment News Briefs Thursday June 18, 2009

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:07 +0000

pConsumer Prices Increase Less Than Expected; Ten Banks Repay TARP Debt; Bankrupt Eddie Bauer Attempts Sale; Berkshire Hathaway Options Begin Trading; FedEx Losses Mount; Saab Cuts Debt; Gas Prices Keep Going, Going, Up; Boeing Gets First Air Show Order; China Will Invest Sovereign Wealth in Hedge Funds; Analyst: S#38;P 500 Will Hit New Highs By 2012; Bond Yields Drop; Mortgage Apps Plunge/p ul type="disc" liInflation fears were quelled at least temporarily as U.S. consumer prices were raised only slightly last month, and actually experienced their biggest drop in almost 60 years. Higher gas prices contributed to the 0.1% increase in the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) versus the April’s CPI, which was flat. Financial markets had expected a 0.3% increase. The CPI#8230;/li/ul

Three Reasons Why Oil Prices Are Rising… And Where They’re Headed Next

Contrarian Profits — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:53 +0000

pWhether it’s heading up or down, the oil market usually asserts itself as the leader of the commodities world. Having plunged from levels around $130 per barrel this time last year all the way down to the $40s, the market has spent the last couple of months striking to the upside again./p pAs I’ve mentioned in recent issues, oil had near-term targets of $70 in its sights. It hasn’t disappointed, shooting past the $73 mark late last week - a level not seen since the first week of November 2008./p pOn a technical basis, because oil has not only moved above, but also stayed above all the major moving averages (including the all-important 200-day average), it’s now got $80 in its sights.#8230;/p

Interview With Paul Tudor Jones

Michael E. Brisky — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:19:00 +0000

a href="http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1964189"Interesting interview from iimagazine.com/a with hedge fund trader Paul Tudor Jones. He is one of the ones worth listening to. I love this quote from him in this interview:br /br /span id="ctl00_MainBody_ArticlePager"/spanblockquotespan id="ctl00_MainBody_ArticlePager"While I spend a significant amount of my time on analytics and collecting fundamental information, at the end of the day, I am a slave to the tape and proud of it./span/blockquotebr /br /One aspect of trend followers and technicians that I admire is their ability to say at sometimes things are out of their hands. For some reason there is a need to understand and quantify everything, and he touches on this. I think it is due to the immense amount of information on the internet. We just feel like there is nothing we can't find the answer to. Unfortunately, in the market, there is a lot that we can't quantify. Sometimes we have to just go with the flow.br /br /Anyway, valuable stuff here.br /br /Have a great weekend!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/819581243324579563-5444624446792783095?l=briskycapital.blogspot.com'//div

Financial Horror Movie

Bill Bonner — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:58:24 +0000

pStock Market Rally in Financial Horror Movie. Drag Me to Hell! That’s the title of the first horror movie with a credit crunch theme. No kidding. We just read about it in the Financial Times. br / The idea of the movie is simple enough. A young woman is a mortgage loan officer at an LA bank. She wants a promotion#8230; but to get it she has to prove that she’s tough enough to say ‘no.’ So when a creepy customer comes in and asks for an extension of her mortgage, the woman rejects the proposal#8230; perhaps a little too coldly./p pThen begins the horror./p pBut just look around. There are plenty of frightening and unnatural scenes going on./p pBroadly speaking, it’s a merciless war#8230;/p

Precious Metals Mixed

Doug Casey — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:16:00 +0000

pGold was down from the far East to just before the New York open on Wednesday, bottoming at $948, but moved sharply higher to the noon hour, reaching $959 before falling steeply again into the Globex and leveling off just in the red to finish at $948.30/oz., down $3.80. Overnight, gold has edged higher. /p pPlatinum spent nearly the whole day rangebound between $1130 and $1140, before ending near the low end at $1133, unchanged. Overnight, platinum is slightly lower./p pSilver noodled around the $14.50 mark from Hong Kong to the New York open, then followed gold strongly higher but outdid its sister metal, adding 50 cents to nudge the $15 mark before subsiding and coasting to a close at $14.75, up#8230;/p

Investment News Briefs Wednesday May 27, 2009

Contrarian Profits — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:45:41 +0000

pConsumer Confidence Leaps; Hong Kong Injects More Stimulus; Virgin Atlantic Sees Cloudy Skies; South Africa Enters Recession; Experts: Supreme Court Nominee Neutral on Business; Hedge Funds Bet Big on Commodities; GM Gets Labor Concessions in Canada; Russian Firm Takes $200 Million Stake in Facebook/p ul type="disc" liThe Conference Board’s index of a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE54P44K20090526"consumer confidence jumped to 54.9 in May/a, up from a revised 40.8 in April. The leap marks the biggest one-month gain since April 2003, and was set in motion by tighter credit and oversupply of homes pushing down prices, strongemReuters /em/strongreported./li /ul ul type="disc" liHong Kong’s government will inject another a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080#38;sid=aC4BYXPPaEZs#38;refer=asia"HK$16.8 billion ($2.2 billion) into the economy/a via tax cuts, fee waivers and spending, strongemBloomberg /em/strongreported. Added to previous stimulus measures, Hong Kong’s government has pumped HK$87.6#8230;/li/ul

Washington Will Make a Bigger Mess of the Auto Industry

Bill Bonner — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:51:14 +0000

pThat the president of the United States of America is now creating the business plan for an automobile company is surely a sign of something big./p pYesterday was a holiday in the US. Little news from that quarter./p pBut while Americans were enjoying their backyard barbecues, the rest of the world turned./p p#8220;Obama plans ‘leaner’ car industry,#8221; says the BBC./p pWhile most readers will focus on the last three words of that sentence, we direct your attention to the first two. The subject is the important part#8230; not the predicate./p pThat the car industry may or may not get ‘leaner’ is of little interest to us. It will do what it needs to do. But that the president of the United States of America is#8230;/p

HAL9000 Friends Did Not Enjoy the Rally; Hedge Fund Performance 4.2% YTD

Trader Mark — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:00:00 +0000

I suspected after seeing which type of stocks are exploding higher, and just how vicious the moves are, some hedge funds must be taking it to the chin - I wrote in [a href="http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/04/meek-continue-to-dominate-equities.html...

How Long-Short Investing Can Lead to Profits in Today’s Uncertain Markets

Contrarian Profits — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:12:56 +0000

pLong-short investing strategies aren’t just for hedge funds anymore. Many investors believed diversified “long-only” portfolios would always serve them well, regardless of the market conditions. They expected certain asset classes would perform well even as others were struggling./p pAfter all, most mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/managedaccount.asp" target="_blank"managed accounts/a offer long-only strategies. And why not? After all, the strategy is simple: These portfolio managers buy securities and hope to take advantage of price appreciation./p pBut the ongoing financial crisis proved those investors wrong – for several reasons. After all, what do you do in a trendless (sideways) market? And what about a declining market?/p pIn either situation, the profit payoff from a purely long portfolio doesn’t figure to be very large. And that’s no#8230;/p

Hedge Funds Missed March Rally

Daniel Shepard — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:53:57 +0000

Wednesday April 8, 2008 Navivest Hedge funds underperformed the general stock market in March, missing out on the huge rally stocks put in as the market recovered from the precipitous drop that saw... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit...

Hedge Funds: An Under The Radar Crisis

Steve Selengut — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:20:21 +0000

The other day, with the market giving up about a third of its March gain in DJIA points, I went looking through my favorite market stats to see if any remaining profits could be pounced upon. Typically, profit possibilities can be identified quickly on NYSE lists of the largest dollar and percent [...]

Global Investment News Briefs Thursday, March 19, 2009

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:00:56 +0000

pFed will Buy up to $1 Trillion in Securities; Source: IBM Looking to Buy Sun; Record Hedge Funds Collapses in 2008; Stale Earnings at General Mills; World Bank: China Stabilizing; AIG Exec Asks for Bonus Money Back/p ul type="disc" liThe U.S. Federal Reserve said yesterday (Thursday) that it will purchase up to $300 billion of longer-term Treasury securities over the next six months. The Fed will also purchase an additional $750 billion worth of government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities. The announcement accompanied its decision to keep interest rates at historically low levels./li /ul ul type="disc" liSources told strongemThe New York Times /em/strongthat strongIBM/strong strongCorp. /strong(a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AIBM" target="_blank"IBM/a) is in a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/companies/19sun.html?ref=technology" target="_blank"talks to buy strongSun Microsystems Inc./strong/a (a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=s" target="_blank"S/a) for at least $6.5 billion, which would be twice the value of Tuesday’s closing price of Sun’s#8230;/li/ul

Inspiring Confidence

Contrarian Profits — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:59:58 +0000

pConventional wisdom has it this morning that stocks are at the start of a rebound. And for all I know, that’s true; technician types say the market is way oversold./p pBut minefields abound. For starters, the derivatives exposure of the biggest banks a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/63606.html" target="_blank"exploded/a during the last quarter of 2008./p p“Citibank (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=c"C/a), Bank of America (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=bac"BAC/a), HSBC Bank USA (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=HBC"HBC/a), Wells Fargo Bank (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=WFC"WFC/a) and J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=JPM"JPM/a) reported that their ‘current’ net loss risks from derivatives — insurance-like bets tied to a loan or other underlying asset — surged to $587 billion as of Dec. 31,” according to McClatchy Newspapers. “Buried in end-of-the-year regulatory reports that McClatchy has reviewed, the figures reflect a jump of 49 percent in just 90 days.”/p pOh, and#8230;/p

Hedge Fund Pitch Book | Marketing Materials

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:57:40 +0000

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My advise to both $30M and $1M hedge funds is that you can never start this process early enough, it is an iterative constantly evolving project which will never be complete. Here are the top 10 tips for creating your hedge fund marketing materials.br /olliThink long-term. Invest in creating a robust institutional quality pitch book the first time around and complete 5 drafts of it internally before showing it to a single investor./liliStress your team, investment process and risk management controls and how they all interact inside the operations of your hedge fund./liliMake your competitive advantage clear and do not rely upon canned phrases such as “positive returns within bull or bear markets” anyone who reviews hedge fund materials for a living see these by the hour. Your advantage must be unique. /liliStress the importance and individual functions of your team, your experiences and pedigree. This should be the foundation upon which everything else is built. /liliDo not send any pitchbook or marketing material out before speaking with a qualified compliance or legal counsel on your team. /liliCreate a one page marketing sheet, full 13-20+ page PowerPoint presentation and one page newsletter which would be released monthly providing your view of the markets within your niche area of expertise./liliWork with high caliber service providers so that you don’t bring extra skepticism upon a relatively new fund which may already be scrutinized by potential investors and advisors. /liliUse your whole team and prime brokerage business partners and other service providers to improve your marketing materials. Professionals who work in prime brokerage or administration see many types of marketing materials and can help provide valuable feedback at no additional cost to your fund./liliDo not create a PowerPoint presentation that is longer than 30 pages. There are some institutional money managers who run 3 similar funds and will sometimes cover each of these within a single presentation, but this is the exception. 95% of the people who you will send the PowerPoint presentation to will not ready more than 15 pages of the material unless you are walking them through it over the phone or in person. /liliPurchase the rights to graphics, choose a unique, simple and professional layout for the presentation and use the new Windows Vista diagramming tools to create institutional quality presentation. Coming into a meeting with a word document or 25 pages of bullet points is not very effective. It is hard enough to catch an investors’ attention and bring them to the table to discuss your fund, you don’t want to lose them due to the aesthetics of your PowerPoint.br //li/olTo view over 100 additional articles related to hedge fund marketing and sales please browse our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html"Hedge Fund Marketing amp; Sales Library/a.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Pitch Book Guide | Top 10 Tipsbr //h4ol face="arial"lia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/hedge-fund-advertising-marketing.html" title="Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas"Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-marketing-plan-sales-plans.html"Hedge Fund Marketing Plan/a/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/raising-new-hedge-fund-capital-during.html" title=""Raising New Hedge Fund Capital During the Crisis/a/span/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Marketing in 2009" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/01/hedge-fund-marketing-in-2009.html" title="Hedge Fund Marketing in 2009"Hedge Fund Marketing in 2009/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Marketing in Switzerland" title="Hedge Fund Marketing in Switzerland" description="Hedge Fund Marketing in Switzerland" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-marketing-in-switzerland.html"Hedge Fund Marketing in Switzerland/a/lilia alt="Sales Motivation, Sales Team Motivation" title="Sales Motivation" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/sales-motivation.html"Sales Motivation/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/07/psychology-of-sales-call-reluctance.html"Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance/a/lilia title="Hedge Fund Seeding" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-seeding.html" description="Hedge Fund Seeding" alt="Hedge Fund Seeding"Hedge Fund Seeding/a/li/olTags: Hedge Fund PitchBook, Hedge Fund Pitch Book, Hedge Fund Marketing Materials, Hedge Fund PowerPoint Presentation, Fund Pitch Book, Hedge Fund Power Point, marketingdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=XclXqmXF"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=XclXqmXF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=4tCrLS5M"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=wGnKGMs5"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=wGnKGMs5" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/7q8kCGNqcpM" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:41:33 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHF and Private Equity/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Funds amp; Private Equity in 2009/span/b/h2br /a alt="Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010" title="Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SYvn4jHOQWI/AAAAAAAAC5g/VvNNOcry_bE/s200/Hedge-Funds-Private-Equity-2009-2010.jpg" alt="Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010" title="Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299584345215746402" border="0" //aThe depressed economic environment which we are now experiencing has forced more hedge funds and private equity firms to close down than within any other single 12 month period. These two industries face a marred public image, overall negative investment returns and an investor base which in many cases now prefers to hold cash equivalents rather than place money at this time in the market cycle. The industry faces many challenges, while also serving as fertile ground for those funds which can prevent losses and recruit talent.br /br /It would seem that the next two years will be either feast or famine for most hedge funds, and as usual most will be left hungry for more capital.br /h4Related to Hedge Funds and Private Equity in 2009 and 2010br //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tool/a/li/ulTags: hedge funds and private equity, private equity 2009, private equity 2010, hedge funds 2009, hedge funds 2010, hedge fund, private equity, hedge funds, private equity industrydiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=hm65fxhg"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=hm65fxhg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=uhRnocEJ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=wXTOmM4O"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=wXTOmM4O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/tKUBJs0AgBU" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Business Model Discussion | Video

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:29:43 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Model/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Business Model Discussionbr //span/b/h2Here is a short video interview discussing the topic of the typical hedge fund business model:br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AHMIh1g5jxoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AHMIh1g5jxoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /View over 100 additional videos within our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Hedge Fund Video Library./abr /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Business Model Discussion | Videobr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Model, Hedge Fund Business Model, Hedge Funds Business Model, How Hedge Funds Work, Hedge Fund Startup Business Model, Hedge Fund, Hedge Fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=1WvuN4p4"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=1WvuN4p4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=t3WR4Ncs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ZSFO08cz"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ZSFO08cz" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/iIeT29F9H4w" height="1" width="1"/

Private Equity Regulation in Europe and America

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:58:58 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bPrivate Equity Regulation/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Private Equity amp; Hedge Fund Regulation/span/b/h2Here is an interview with Steven Rubenstein on the potential regulation of private equity. He believes that private equity will be regulated along with hedge funds in Europe while in the US private equity will possibly escape any increase in private equity regulations.br /br /The interview also discusses leverage, the access to cheap leverage and how the private equity industry was really founded during periods of low availability of leverage. If you are reading this article via our daily hedge fund newsletter a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/02/private-equity-regulation-in-europe-and.html"please click here now/a to watch the embedded video below.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M1qJbg46Llsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M1qJbg46Llsamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /To view over 100 videos please visit our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Hedge Fund Video Library/abr /h4Related to Private Equity Regulation in Europe and Americabr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Private Equity Regulations, Private Equity Regulation, Private Equity, Regulations on Private Equity, Private Equity Compliance, Private Equity Lawsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=pegirY7A"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=pegirY7A" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=5JgGEqw8"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=LeqI87pz"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=LeqI87pz" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/WBK5cTGUcXo" height="1" width="1"/

Prime Broker Market | Opportunities Challenges

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:24:47 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bPrime Broker Market/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Prime Broker Market Share Changes/span/b/h2br /a alt="Prime Broker Market" title="Prime Broker Market" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SYdyLn7rGsI/AAAAAAAAC4E/e8pzEmbCEdU/s200/Prime-Broker-Market-Share-CLients.JPG" alt="Prime Broker Market" title="Prime Broker Market" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298329030648076994" border="0" //aBelow is a short article on how the market share between prime brokers is changing. Some banks are gaining over $1B a quarter in new assets while others are losing market share to those banks which appear to be less risky to hedge fund managers who are trying to lower counter-party risk. Here is the article excerpt:br /blockquoteThe collapse of Lehman Brothers last September was the flashpoint of a year that saw the prime brokerage world - along with that of its hedge fund clients - transformed by the ongoing credit crisis and grisly economic backdrop. But for those funds and brokers that come through the turbulence intact, the new landscape offers a broad range of opportunities for the coming years, according to Nick Roe, the London-based head of prime finance at Citi.br /br /While the hedge fund assets that were locked up in London after Lehman Brothers International (Europe) went into administration garnered headlines for a while, Roe argues that just as important was the spotlight turned on rehypothecation - the use by prime brokers of hedge fund assets as collateral for the borrowing they need to provide funding to those clients.br /br /'I believe the regulations regarding rehypothecation will change, with prime brokers forced into much more transparency,' he says. 'But it won't go away, because most hedge funds couldn't cope with the changed economic conditions if prime brokers weren't able to make use of some of their assets to deliver the required levels of funding.' a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hedgeweek.com/articles/detail.jsp?content_id=290846"source/a/blockquoteh4Related to Prime Broker Market | Opportunities amp; Challenges/h4ol style="font-family:arial;"lispan style="font-size:100%;"a title="Prime Brokerage Services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/prime-brokerage-services.html" description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="Prime Brokerage Services"Prime Brokerage Services/a/span/lilia title="prime broker" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/02/prime-broker-definition.html" description="prime broker" alt="prime broker"Prime Broker Definition/a/lilia title="Best Prime Broker" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-prime-broker.html" description="Best Prime Broker, merrill lynch prime brokerage, hedge fund prime broker, prime broker definition, prime brokerage job, prime brokerage career, fx prime broker" alt="Best Prime Broker"Best Prime Broker/a/lilia title="capital introduction" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/09/capital-introduction.html" alt="capital introduction" description="capital introduction"Capital Introduction/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Administrators" title="Hedge Fund Administrators" description="Hedge Fund Administrators, Hedge Fund Administrator, Hedge Fund Administration, Hedge Funds Administrators, Hedge Funds Administrators" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-administrators.html"Hedge Fund Administrators/a/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"a title="Hedge Fund Research " href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-research.html" description="Hedge Fund Research" alt="Hedge Fund Research"Hedge Fund Research/a/span/lilia alt="Investment Research" title="Investment Research" description="Investment Research, Investments Research, Independent Investment Research, Investment Research Firms, Investment Research Firm" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/investment-research.html"Investment Research/a/lilia description="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" alt="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/commercial-real-estate-brokers.html" title="Commercial Real Estate Brokers"Commercial Real Estate Brokers/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="hedge fund marketing"Hedge Fund Marketing/a/lilia description="Prime Brokerage, Prime Brokerage Services, Prime Brokerage Survey, FX prime brokerage, Currency Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Prime Brokerage" alt="Prime Brokerage" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/prime-brokerage.html" title="Prime Brokerage"Prime Brokerage/a/li/olTags: Prime Broker Market, Prime Broker Trade, Prime Broker Trading, prime broker clients, prime brokerage clients, prime broker accounts, prime broker dealer, prime brokerdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=YL2YP58S"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=YL2YP58S" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=lzTKHvpY"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ilYSoGTO"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ilYSoGTO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/dpM15e_HfAk" height="1" width="1"/

Million Dollar Traders TV Show (Part 1 of 12)

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:33:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund TV Show/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund TV Show (Part 1 of 12)/span/b/h2In the UK there was recently a reality TV show where a hedge fund manager, Lex Van Dam finds 8 professionals and provides them with $1M each, to run their own hedge funds. br /br /The eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Among them are an environmentalist, a soldier, a boxing promoter, an entrepreneur, a retired IT consultant, a vet, a student and a shopkeeper. Since the show aired it has now been made available online. We will posting a series on the show here on HedgeFundBlogger.com, and this is part 1 of 12 of that series.br /br /div align="center"object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-KpqOePUXn4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-KpqOePUXn4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Watch The Complete Million Dollar Traders TV Showbr //h4olliPart 1 (Viewing Now)/liliPart 2 of Million Dollar Tradersbr //liliPart 3 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 4 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 5 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 6 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 7 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 8 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 9 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 10 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 11 of Million Dollar Traders/liliPart 12 of Million Dollar Traders/li/olTags: Hedge Fund TV, Hedge Fund TV Show, Million Dollar Traders, Million Dollar Traders Show, Hedge Fund Trading, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Capitaldiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=kCJvMgl2"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=kCJvMgl2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=NNo2t2si"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Xt2b5VIu"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Xt2b5VIu" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/w0zUEq7rh8I" height="1" width="1"/

Mark Fuchs Interview on Hedge Funds

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:26:57 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bMark Fuchs Interview/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Mark Fuchs Interview on Hedge Funds/span/b/h2Here is a video interview with Mark Fuchs on hedge funds and how the time for them may be during these periods of low confidence in traditional asset classes. If you are reading this article over email a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/01/mark-fuchs-interview-on-hedge-funds.html"please click here/a to watch this video now.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EJ_cm3ek8UYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EJ_cm3ek8UYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /Watch over 100 hedge fund videos online within our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Hedge Fund Video Library/abr /br /h4Related to Mark Fuchs Interview on Hedge Fundsbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Mark fuchs, Mark Fuchs Hedge Fund, Mark Fuchs Interview, Mark Fuchs Hedge Fund Manager, hedge fund, hedge funds, investments interview, interview on stock marketdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=vkYv9YFr"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=vkYv9YFr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Qku5jM4h"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=zm7njW2R"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=zm7njW2R" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/kfUMVQ9bPmo" height="1" width="1"/

What is a Ponzi Scheme? Charles Ponzi

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:44:18 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bWhat is a Ponzi Scheme?/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"What is a Ponzi Scheme? Charles Ponzi/span/b/h2br /Many professionals are now asking what exactly is a ponzi scheme? How do you define what a ponzi scheme is and how do they work? Here is a video on ponzi schemes and how they work. If you are reading this article over email through our daily hedge fund newsletter a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-is-ponzi-scheme-charles-ponzi.html"please click here now/a to view the embedded video below.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRTPKcJGwe4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRTPKcJGwe4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /More on the definition of a ponzi scheme:br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2YIoJEN81k0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2YIoJEN81k0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to What is a Ponzi Scheme? Charles Ponzibr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: What is a ponzi scheme, ponzi scheme definition, define ponzi scheme, Charles Ponzi, Ponzi Scheme Discussion, how does a ponzi scheme work, hedge fund fraud, fraudsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=tt777SJw"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=tt777SJw" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Sxk4nalO"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=RLj2hBl1"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=RLj2hBl1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/YwKenaEzObA" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Losses and Closures in 2008 2009

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:52:01 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Losses/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Losses in 2008 2009/span/b/h2br /Here is a video below on hedge fund asset losses and closures. While there is a small set of institutional investors investing in a number of opportunistic hedge funds most are still loosing assets each quarter. Many firms were profitable just 2-3 years ago and now have less assets to manage and little if any performance fees to collect.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uYnmgddqy5Aamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uYnmgddqy5Aamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Losses and Closures in 2008 2009br //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Losses, Hedge Fund Closures, Closures of hedge funds, hedge fund strategy, hedge fund strategies, hedge fund, hedge funds, investments, investmentdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=M2ZjXZZT"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=M2ZjXZZT" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=3PKoL3fr"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=deb4Qb3u"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=deb4Qb3u" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/vavvsiOFDAo" height="1" width="1"/

Obama Hedge Fund Regulation 2009 2010 2011

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:44:06 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bObama Regulations/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Obama Hedge Fund Regulation 2009br //span/b/h2Here is a short video interview with Dan Alpert from Westwood Capital on hedge fund regulations which may come through Obama. The discussion revolves around forcing some hedge funds to be more transparent to regulators, hopefully in a way which does not expose hedge fund investment strategies to the general public. The video talks about how most people think regulation is in place to protect consumers, in this case most of the new regulation will be around protecting the financial system. The financial system needs protection from certain firms or funds which use leverage to the point of damaging the whole system should liquidity or capital ever dry up. If you are viewing this article over email a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-hedge-fund-regulation-2009-2010.html"please click here now/a to watch the video.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mv_3TZjKWMkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mv_3TZjKWMkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /FinAlternatives wrote on this same topic earlier this week: ess than a week into his administration, the outlines of President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul America’s financial regulatory systems are coming into focus. And it is becoming increasingly clear that the plan will involve some sort of mandatory hedge fund registration and surveillance.br /br /Although most of his top economic advisers are still awaiting confirmation by the Senate—including Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman-designate Mary Schapiro—Obama is expected to offer details of his plans before traveling to London on April 2 for a Group of 20 meeting. The Obama administration is also laboring under an April 30 deadline—set by last year’s Emergency Economic Stabilization Act—to offer his regulatory recommendations to Congress. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.finalternatives.com/node/6725"source/abr /br /Review dozens of additional resources within our a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Regulation Corner | Compliance amp; Law Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/hedge-fund-regulation-corner-compliance.html" title="Hedge Fund Regulation Corner | Compliance amp; Law Notes"Hedge Fund Regulation Corner | Compliance amp; Law Notes/a or watch over a 100 hedge fund videos within our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Hedge Fund Video Library/a.br /h4Related to Obama Hedge Fund Regulation 2009 2010 2011br //h4ullia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Obama Regulations, Obama Regulation on Hedge Funds, Obama 2009 Regulations, regulating hedge funds in 2009, New Hedge Fund Legislature, New hedge Fund rules, hedge funddiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=EStL7cHp"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=EStL7cHp" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=jhqEj00t"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=iGHOfbfA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=iGHOfbfA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/icPEDRMP4hU" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investments

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:25:57 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bSao Paulo, Brazilbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Funds amp; Family Offices in Brazil/span/b/h2br /a alt="Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investments" title="Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investments" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SX8mzJRecNI/AAAAAAAAC2k/DfDNh1aCICk/s200/Sao-Paulo-Brazil-Hedge-funds-in.jpg" alt="Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investments" title="Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investments" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295994346915393746" border="0" //aStarting on February 13th, 2009 I will be starting to work out of Sao Paolo, Brazil for several weeks. While in town I will be meeting with hedge funds, private equity firms and family offices.br /br /If you are based in Sao Paulo and would like to meet while I am in Brazil please do send me an email at Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org. If there are enough professionals in the city interested in networking we will put on a 30-50 person networking event in downtown Sao Paolo.br /br /h4Related to Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo Brazil | Investmentsbr //h4ullia title="Asia Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/asia-hedge-fund.html" alt="Asia Hedge Fund " descripiton=" Guide to Asia Hedge Funds"Asian Hedge Fundsbr //a/lilia title="Australian Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/australian-hedge-funds.html" description="A guide to hedge funds in Australia" alt="Australian Hedge Funds, Australia Hedge Fund, Australian Hedge Fund"Australian Hedge Fund Guidebr //a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bermuda-hedge-fund-guide.html"Bermuda Hedge Fund Guidebr //a/lilia title="Brazil Hedge Funds - Overview of Hedge Funds in Brazil" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/brazil-hedge-funds.html" description="Brazil Hedge Funds Guide - An Overview of Brazilian Hedge Funds" alt="Brazil Hedge Funds"Brazil Hedge Fundbr //a/lilia title="Hedge Funds in Canada" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/hedge-funds-in-canada-canadian-hedge.html" description="Hedge Funds in Canada, Canadian Hedge Funds, Canadian Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund in Canada" alt="Canada Hedge Funds"Canada Hedge Fundsbr //a/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Cayman Island Hedge Fund Guide | Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/cayman-island-hedge-fund-guide-hedge.html" title="Cayman Island Hedge Fund Guide | Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands"Cayman Islands Hedge Fund Guidebr //a/span/lilia title="China Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/china-hedge-funds-hedge-funds-in-china.html" description="China Hedge Funds, Chinese Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds in China, Hedge Fund in China, China Hedge Fund" alt="China Hedge Funds"China Hedge Fund Guidebr //a/li/ulTags: Saol Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil, Hedge Funds in Sao Paulo, Family Offices in Brazil, Hedge Funds in Brazil, wealth management sao paolo, wealth management brazil, Brazildiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=uFdSSMuX"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=uFdSSMuX" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=srccIwcI"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=260eLUvJ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=260eLUvJ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/aC9MUSjT_NI" height="1" width="1"/

Market Values of US Banks 2009

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:58:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBank Market Values/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Market Values of US Banks 2009/span/b/h2br /A trader on the west just sent me the picture below.span style="font-weight: bold;" Click on the picture/span below to enlarge it, pretty interesting to see the differences between JPM and Citi.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SX3OVd7dYWI/AAAAAAAAC2E/mtcOXEn8dG0/s1600-h/Banks-Market-Cap.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SX3OVd7dYWI/AAAAAAAAC2E/mtcOXEn8dG0/s400/Banks-Market-Cap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295615605064163682" border="0" //abr /h4Related to Market Values of US Banks 2009br //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Banks 2009, Market value of banks, market value, market value of US banks, (MS), (C), (JPM), (RBS), (GS), (HBC), (BNP.PA), (BNP), (CS), (UBS), (DB), banks, stock, stocksdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Sks6YEPO"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Sks6YEPO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ndSXAy4z"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=uAodRpwU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=uAodRpwU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/hNgj6-3GQS8" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Tracker Updates

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:08:01 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bTracker Updates/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/span/b/h2br /Our team has recently updated the following Hedge Fund Tracker profiles:br /ullia alt="Man Investments, Man Investments New York, Man Investments London" title="Man Investments" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/man-investments.html"Man Investments Group/a/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"/spana alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Lansdowne Partners | Paul Ruddock | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/lansdowne-partners-paul-ruddock-hedge.html" title="Lansdowne Partners | Paul Ruddock | Hedge Fund Notes"Lansdowne Partners | Paul Ruddock/a/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"/spana alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Sparx Group Co. Ltd | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/sparx-group-co-ltd-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="Sparx Group Co. Ltd | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Sparx Group Co. Ltd/a/lilia alt="Children's Investment Fund Management TCI" title="Children's Investment Fund Management TCI" description="Children's Investment Fund Management TCI, Children's Investment Fund, Childrens Investment Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/childrens-investment-fund-management.html"Children's Investment Fund Management TCI/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Ellington Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2004/11/ellington-management-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="Ellington Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Ellington Management /a/li/ulbr /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Tracker Updatesbr //h4ullia description="hedge fund auditors" alt="hedge fund auditors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-auditors.html" title="Hedge Fund Auditors"Hedge Fund Auditors/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Marketing Tools,Hedge Fund Marketing Aides" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-marketing-tools.html" title="Hedge Fund Marketing Tools"Hedge Fund Marketing Tools/a/lilia description="A listing of hedge fund attorneys and lawyers" alt="Hedge Fund Attorney, Hedge Fund Lawyer" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-attorney-lawyers.html" title="Hedge Fund Attorney, Hedge Fund Lawyer"Hedge Fund Attorney/a/lilia description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="prime brokerage services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-prime-broker.html" title="Prime Brokerage Services"Prime Brokers/a /li lia description="Hedge Fund Administrators, Hedge Fund Administrator, Hedge Fund Administration, Hedge Funds Administrators, Hedge Funds Administrators" alt="Hedge Fund Administrators" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-administrators.html" title="Hedge Fund Administrators"Hedge Fund Administrators/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Tracker, Hedge Fund Managers, Hedge Fund Investments, hedge Fund Investing, Hedge Fund Manager, Hedge Fund Newsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=umINI4qQ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=umINI4qQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=79ukAYiW"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=1uWyKcYA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=1uWyKcYA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/YHRTc-JQSBg" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Industry Structure Changes

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:33:47 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Structure/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Industry Structure Changes/span/b/h2(HedgeFundBlogger.com) Below is a short video on hedge funds, redemptions and the great level of cash that sovereign wealth funds and family offices. The speaker at this Australian banking conference agrees with me that much of this cash will find its way back into the portfolios of hedge fund managers. The speaker also talks about how the correlations among assets classes has been higher than it normally should be and this changes how portfolio managers and asset allocators will make decisions in the future. This growth in uncertainty among returns from a diverse portfolio dampens the growth rates at which experts will set on diverse portfolios over long periods of time. If you are reading this over email a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2009/01/hedge-fund-industry-structure-changes.html"click here to watch the embedded video below now/a.br /br /div align="center"object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v1aWlp3KPM4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v1aWlp3KPM4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"/embed/object/divbr /br /Watch over 100 hedge fund videos a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"by clicking here/a.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Industry Structure Changesbr //h4ullia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Structure, Hedge Fund Portfolio, Portfolios of hedge fund investments, hedge fund, hedge funds, hedge fund statistics, hedge fund leverage, hedge fund investing researchdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Mp2YgCLs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Mp2YgCLs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=WdlctnMi"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ymDqpNdZ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ymDqpNdZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/JDTTpE_5EIw" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Backers | A List of Capital Sources for Hedge Funds

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:06:35 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Backersbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Backers | span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Capital Raising/span/spanbr //b/h2span style="font-weight: bold;"br /span style="font-weight: bold;"As part of our /span/spana alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Startup Tools | 1 Page Guide for Startups" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools | 1 Page Guide for Startups"Hedge Fund Startup Guide/a please see our list of hedge fund backers below:span style="font-weight: bold;"span style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbr /br /br /Affiliated Managers Group/spanbr /Bostonbr /Brett Perrymanbr /Public company has taken equity stakes in four hedge fund shops: AQR Capital,br /Blue Mountain, First Quadrant and Value Act.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Asset Alliance/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Bruce Lipnickbr /Twice has backed off plans to sell stock to the public, most recently in August andbr /in 1998. Offers operational and marketing support in exchange for 50% ownershipbr /of management companies.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"BRI Partners/spanbr /Chicagobr /Adam Brassbr /Provides investment capital in exchange for marketing and operational support.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Boxtree Capital/span span style="font-weight: bold;"Rumson/spanbr /N.J.br /Robert Picardbr /732-939-9000br /Founded earlier this year by former Optima Fund Management chief investmentbr /officer Robert Picard, the firm has not yet made any acquisitions. Hopes to buybr /minority interests in funds of funds and hedge funds.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Capital Z Asset Management/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jim Marronebr /212-965-0800br /Has backed 17 hedge funds, including John Burbank’s Passport Management.br /Takes meaningful minority stakes as an anchor investor in startups. In January,br /announced management buyout of hedge fund-sponsorship business from parentbr /Capital Z, in partnership with private equity shop Paine amp; Partners.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Citadel Investment/spanbr /Chicagobr /Bryan Lockebr /Has seeded three funds via its Citadel Discovery vehicle, which is run within itsbr /Citadel Alternative Asset Management unit. The vehicle invests only its parent’sbr /capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Financial Risk Management/spanbr /Londonbr /Patric de Gentile-Williamsbr /Big fund-of-funds operation run by Blaine Tomlinson launched a hedge-fundbackingbr /vehicle in January via a new unit, FRM Capital Advisors. Focuses on earlystagebr /and startup managers. Offers operational and infrastructure support,br /including risk-management, compliance and technology services. In exchange, itbr /shares in management and performance fee revenues.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Focus Investment/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Andrew Godfreybr /Provides seed capital to startups and is a strategic investor in more-establishedbr /managers. In exchange, it usually shares revenues.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Fortune Group/spanbr /Londonbr /Simon Hopkinsbr /Has seeded more than 20 firms over the past decade. Terms vary, but standardbr /model includes share of revenue in exchange for $25 million to $50 millionbr /investment.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Goldman Sachs/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jonathan Sorrellbr /In the fall of 2007, word got out that Goldman had set up a private equity fund tobr /take stakes in hedge fund managers. At that time, it purchased 10% of Londonbasedbr /commodities manager Winton Capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hardt Group/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jeff Landlebr /Backs more than two dozen operations, usually sharing revenues, but also takingbr /equity stakes in some cases. Since 2004, has invested north of $200 million inbr /seed-capital arrangements.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Investcorp/spanbr /Bahrainbr /Hank Murphybr /Has financed eight hedge fund companies, including two deals slated to bebr /announced in the next month or two. New York unit typically provides $75 millionbr /of seed capital, as well as operational and marketing support. In exchange, itbr /shares revenues. Its affiliate managers, including Minneapolis-based Interlaken,br /have $2 billion of seed and client capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"J.P. Morgan Incubator Strategies/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Simon Lackbr /212-648-2593br /Expects to do a couple of deals per year, but no more than that because thebr /treacherous market makes it too difficult to evaluate hedge funds.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Jefferies Group/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Tom Witzbr /Still wants to seed hedge funds and offer operational support despite cutbacks inbr /the amount of capital parent is willing to provide.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Larch Lane Advisors/spanbr /Purchase, N.Y.br /Marc Jurishbr /Established in 1993 by Marc Jurish and became an affiliate of Old Mutual Assetbr /Management in 2005. In June, entered into a joint venture with the now-embattledbr /AIG Investments to provide seed capital between $50 million to $200 million perbr /deal.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Liberty Ermitage/spanbr /Londonbr /Jonathan Wautonbr /Still amenable to seeding deals, but it’s temporarily out of the game until it raisesbr /capital for a new vehicle. The life of an earlier vehicle recently ran its course.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Man Group (RMF):/spanbr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hedge Fund Ventures/spanbr /Londonbr /Hans Hurschlerbr /Has backed 32 operations over the years in exchange for revenue or equity stakes.br /Terms have changed, however, with the November launch of its RMF Globalbr /Emerging Managers fund, which has backed eight management companies thisbr /year. Fund enters only revenue-sharing arrangements. One fund it has seeded isbr /Bill Seibold’s Noroton Capital.br /Man Group:br /Man Global Strategiesbr /Londonbr /Alex Lowebr /The Man unit uses parent’s proprietary capital to invest in early-stage managers.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"MD Sass-Macquarie Financial Strategies/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Steve Shenfeldbr /Has backed nine companies and expects to add a couple more to its roster bybr /yearend. Set up as private equity vehicle, investor money is locked up until 2014,br /with the possibility of extending to 2017.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Millennium Management/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Adin Kahnbr /Allocates capital in a flexible manner to satisfy unique business and investmentbr /relationships.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Ospraie Wingspan/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Eric Vincentbr /Since its start in 2005, has allocated capital to eight independent managers ofbr /commodities funds. Ospraie also offers marketing and operational support.br /Wingspan is a unit of Lehman-backed Ospraie Management, which is liquidatingbr /its flagship commodities vehicle due to losses.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Reservoir Capital/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Dana Craverbr /Has ownership stakes in 10 managers. Founded by Dan Stern and Craig Huff,br /former partners at Ziff Brothers Investment. Reservoir was an early backer of suchbr /big names as HBK Investments, Och-Ziff and Ellington Management.br /br /Skybridge Capitalbr /New Yorkbr /Anthony Scaramuccibr /Has seeded nine hedge funds. Skybridge formed a joint venture with Challengerbr /Financial of Australia to mine for talented fund mangers down under, as well as tobr /market current funds to investors. Computer tycoon Michael Dell is a big investorbr /in one of its funds.br /br /Triple A Partnersbr /Santa Monica, Calif.br /Hans Tidemanbr /Has so far seeded three Asia funds, its specialty. Provides working and seedbr /capital along with operational and marketing support.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Weston Capital Management/spanbr /Westport, Conn.br /Chris Kelleybr /Shares revenues with nine managers in exchange for a combined $1.5 billion ofbr /trading capital. Doesn’t supply working capital and doesn’t take equity stakes.br /Affiliated funds include White Oak, Agamas Capital and Frontfour.br /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Backers | A List of Capital Sources for Hedge Funds:/h4ullia title="Hedge Fund Terms" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html" description="Hedge Fund Terms, Hedge Fund Definition, Define a Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds Definition, Hedge Fund Definitions" alt="Hedge Fund Terms"Hedge Fund Terms and Definitions/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool, Hedge Fund Press Release, Hedge Fund Press Releases, Hedge Fund Tools, Hedge Fund News" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia alt="Financial Certification, Financial Management Certification, Financial Markets Certification" title="Financial Certification" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/financial-certification.html"Financial Certification/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Forum, Hedge Fund Forum Greenwich, Hedge Fund Manager Forum" title="Hedge Fund Forum" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-forum.html"Hedge Fund Forum/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Backers, Hedge Fund Capital Providers, Hedge Fund Capital, Sources of Capital for Hedge Fund Managers, Institutional Hedge Fund Capitaldiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=508M5ss1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=508M5ss1" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=RJ4XU2py"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=vpBT7iFC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=vpBT7iFC" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/rK-vup63gmQ" height="1" width="1"/

Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:07:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBernard Madoff/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes/span/b/h2br /a alt="Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes" title="Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SVcNYHaZvVI/AAAAAAAACuo/J88d9xIiiPk/s200/Bernard-Madoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud.jpg" alt="Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes" title="Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Manager Notes" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284707395700374866" border="0" //aJust came across another post on the Madoff fraud case. This article is by Veryan Allen, here is an excerpt:br /blockquoteBernie Madoff was a stock broker "managing" client accounts. He was never part of the hedge fund industry. His firm was "regulated" and fraud is already illegal. He did not charge 2 and 20 and had no prime broker, proper auditor or independent administrator. Few professional investors invested directly with so many red flags in abundance. Due diligence is an alpha source itself. And portfolio diversification with NUMEROUS strategies and managers is mandatory. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hedgefund.blogspot.com/"read more.../abr //blockquoteh4Additional Information on Bernard Madoffbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Ethics | A New Code" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/hedge-fund-ethics-new-code.html" title="Hedge Fund Ethics | A New Code"Hedge Fund Ethics | A New Code/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bernard Madoff Fraud | Auditings amp; Due Diligence" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/bernard-madoff-fraud-auditings-due.html" title="Bernard Madoff Fraud | Auditings amp; Due Diligence"Bernard Madoff Fraud | Auditings amp; Due Diligence/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Fund of Fund Letter" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/bernard-madoff-hedge-fund-risks-fund-of.html" title="Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Fund of Fund Letter"Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Fund of Fund Letter/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/bernard-madoff-case-hedge-fund-fraud.html" title="Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud"Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud/a/li/ulTags: Bernard Madoff, Bernard Madoff Feeder Funds, Madoff Fraud Case, Madoff News, Bernard Madoff News, Bernard Maddoff, Bernard Madof, Bernard Madoff hedge fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=WYu00EZd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=WYu00EZd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=slItEtQC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=1onff1cB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=1onff1cB" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/W4GgV5Nn2L8" height="1" width="1"/

Understanding Hedge Funds | Video Definition

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:36:38 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bUnderstanding Hedge Funds/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Understanding Hedge Funds | Video Definition/span/b/h2br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksLySMWRwLsamp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksLySMWRwLsamp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /Watch over 100 additional videos on hedge funds here: a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Videos" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html" title="Hedge Fund Videos"100+ Hedge Fund Videos/abr /br /h4Related to Understanding Hedge Funds | Video Definitionbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/li/ulTags: Understanding Hedge Funds, What is a hedge fund, what are hedge funds, hedge funds defined, hedge fund terminology, hedge funds terminology, hedge funds definitionsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=E5qSjm0V"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=E5qSjm0V" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ir51zBwX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=p380B0Yo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=p380B0Yo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/ZDg7mQvMUeQ" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Ethics | A New Code

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:51:54 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Ethics/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Ethics | A New Codebr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SVICAfeCXGI/AAAAAAAACtA/CkDJ2rBtKNk/s1600-h/Hedge-Fund-Ethics-Code.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SVICAfeCXGI/AAAAAAAACtA/CkDJ2rBtKNk/s200/Hedge-Fund-Ethics-Code.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283287520329751650" border="0" //aThe downturn of the markets, recent fraud cases and pending regulatory changes the time is ripe for a widely accepted set of principles to act by. I would like to start a discussion here on what such a code of ethics for hedge funds should include. There are some financial non-profit groups which have proposed standards but their interests are diverse and many of them do not work within the hedge fund industry.br /br /By working with the 50 Advisory Board members of the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) and visitors to this site I would like to help put together a brief and simple code of ethics for the hedge fund industry. The end product would be actively promoted through many hedge fund related websites, discussed with hundreds of hedge fund managers and required as part of the a href="http://chadesignation.org/"CHA Designation/a Program.br /br /Please comment below with any input you may have on this process, insight on what should be included or interest in applying to become part of the a href="http://hedgefundgroup.org/"Hedge Fund Group (HFG)/a Board of Advisors.br /br /br /Tags: Hedge Fund Ethics, Hedge Funds Ethics, Hedge Fund Industry Ethics, Ethics Code for Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Group (HFG) Code of Conduct Ethics Guidediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=n7PRg3Vn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=n7PRg3Vn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=O2ChSIF6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=uFH1UXtT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=uFH1UXtT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/UmpUMDEQX1k" height="1" width="1"/

What is a Family Office? | Wealth Management

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:33:07 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bWhat is a Family Office?/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"What is a Family Office? | Wealth Management/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SVAjB-RXhMI/AAAAAAAACsY/lnkmPcnRjTg/s200/What-is-a-family-office.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282760879708275906" border="0" //aI just found a PDF on family offices which lays out 5 differences between wealth management firms and family offices. Since I get many questions related to what family offices do and how marketers can reach them I thought this list may help:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Top 5 Differences Between Wealth Management amp; Family Offices/spanbr /olliClients informed of all the risks and advantages of every decision, thus empowering them to understand the impact of the choices they make and the effect on their long-term goals. They provide sophisticated investment advice and/liliimplementation to meet the customized needs of taxable families with complex wealth structures. They add value by working collaboratively,br //lilicombining internal resources with a client’s team of advisors to develop unique solutions to challenges that cross disciplines, such as estate, tax, risk management and similar fields.They provide leadership in family governance andbr //lilieducation, a critical factor in preparing future generations for the complex obligations of wealth management and preservation. They take care of the day-to-day demands that/liliwealth can impose, relieving family members of many routine worries and burdens./li/olRead more about a href="http://familyofficesgroup.com"family offices/a or read the rest of this PDF a href="http://www.pitcairn.com/images/resources/Pitcairn_FamOff_WP_FINAL.pdf"here/a.br /h4Related to What is a Family Office? | Wealth Managementbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: What is a family office, what are family offices, family offices, family office, multi family office, what is a single family office, what are multi family offices, HNW family officediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=JxBfYMlj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=JxBfYMlj" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=zMsxOmqZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=yxjTifF5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=yxjTifF5" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/Rx7kLoYX9Vo" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Funds Definition | Myths, Facts Trends

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:40:12 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Funds Definition/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Funds Definition | Myths, Facts amp; Trends/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvOIXH13bI/AAAAAAAACrI/-nyWNrdiE0M/s1600-h/Hedge-Funds-Definition-Trends.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvOIXH13bI/AAAAAAAACrI/-nyWNrdiE0M/s200/Hedge-Funds-Definition-Trends.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281541631063219634" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) I just found a great informational report on hedge funds put out by Hedge Info. This report identifies top industry trends as:br /ulliDeleveraging amp; redemption notices/liliRedemptions + lossing = further losses/liliChange brings opportunity/liliThe 3 D's - Diversification, Darwinism and Due Diligence/li/ulWhy hedge funds are popular in the first place:br /ulliProducing above market returns over long periods of time/liliThe appeal of relatively uncorrelated returns/liliAccess to unique or illiquid asset classes only available to those with large amounts of capital or specialized knowledge/li/ulWhat is going to happen (according to this report)br /ulliMore regulation/liliHedge funds adapting to using less leverage overall/liliDue diligence will be even more important/liliThere is a need for a global investment bank / hedge fund risk monitoring organization/li/ulIf you would like to read this full report please click a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hedgeinfo.com/reports/AHI%20Paper%20-%20Current%20market%20for%20hedge%20funds%2011-11-08.pdf"here/a.br /br /To learn more about what a hedge fund really is please see our video: a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: What is a Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-hedge-fund.html" title="What is a Hedge Fund"What is a Hedge Fund/ah4Related to Hedge Funds Definition | Myths, Facts amp; Trendsbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: What is a Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-hedge-fund.html" title="What is a Hedge Fund"What is a Hedge Fund/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Trends, Hedge Funds Definition, Hedge Fund Definition, How Hedge Funds Work, Hedge Fund Regulating Bodies, Who governs hedge funds, hedge fund, hedge fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=lAtyH2qO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=lAtyH2qO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=0nn9V9Tz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=O3BzW0rl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=O3BzW0rl" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/U185JEU1Occ" height="1" width="1"/

New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:12:09 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bNew Prime Brokerage Model/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvGhHYSIaI/AAAAAAAACrA/bkbv9SI9Bmo/s1600-h/Prime-Brokerage-Trends.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvGhHYSIaI/AAAAAAAACrA/bkbv9SI9Bmo/s200/Prime-Brokerage-Trends.jpg" alt="New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging" title="New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281533260240920994" border="0" //aThe credit crisis and the subject of counter party risk is proving to be the final nail in the coffin for the hedge fund industry's single prime brokerage model. Funds of all sizes now demand multiple custodial relationships.br /br /The problem the high-cost-structure leading a href="http://primebrokerageguide.com"prime brokerage/a firms now face is that without the assurance of the captive single prime model the economics of servicing smaller funds no longer make sense. This reality combined with the primes' decreased risk tolerance means that we are seeing a mass exodus away from the top-tier primes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these primes are now in the process of weeding out clients that manage less than $100 million or that do not generate annual revenues of at least $250,000. We are also witnessing primes becoming more selective about what type of funds they are willing to service. Funds whose strategies involve less liquid securities and/or high leverage are now finding the bar set much higher.br /br /This retrenchment by the leading span style="font-size: 100%;"a title="" style="font-family: arial;" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-prime-broker.html" description="Hedge fund prime broker, prime broker services for hedge funds, hedge funds prime broker, hedge fund prime brokers, prime brokerage hedge funds, fund prime brokerage, hedge fund prime broker services, prime broker, prime brokers" alt="prime brokers, prime brokerage"prime brokers/a/span raises the obvious questions - Who will fill the void and offer prime services to the lower end of the market? Who will provide the financing, stock loan, technology infrastructure etc. necessary for smaller funds to generate alpha?br /br /Before we answer this question let’s take a moment to think about why this smaller hedge fund segment is so key to the future success of the industry. It is no secret that size kills alpha. Many successful funds follow a familiar arc. They gain attention (and funds) by earning outsized returns, as they grow in size their primary strategy reaches capacity and they experience a leveling off of returns. If they are not lucky enough to find another successful strategy, returns will continue to suffer, capital will begin to flow out and ultimately investment talent will go in search of new opportunities. This regeneration process is vital to the health of the industry and for many investors, it is the promise of catching a smaller fund during this growth phase that motivates them to invest.br /br /Historically the group charged with picking up the crumbs left by the leading primes was a group known as the mini-primes. This term is rapidly becoming obsolete as the mini-primes now find themselves expanding their offerings to attract the funds that have been displaced. Two important differences remain: 1 - The mini’s still use the clearing services of their larger prime broker brethren, and 2 - more importantly, their cost-structures evolved in a way that allows them to offer prime services profitably at this lower end of the market. Interestingly we are also seeing a number of new entrants to this expanded segment of the prime brokerage industry. These are for the most part more traditional brokers who see an opportunity to increase the stickiness of their execution services, as well to develop new revenue streams, by building out a prime brokerage offering.br /br /Only time will tell who will be successful in this greatly altered landscape of prime brokerage. The winners will be the firms that understand that the new economics of prime brokerage demand a new industry infrastructure. This prime infrastructure will rely heavily on cost-effective technologies that can offer aggregated multi-prime reporting, as well as real-time views of critical data such as Pamp;L and Risk, right to the desktop of the hedge fund. This restructuring of the prime model will ensure the health of the industry by continuing to offer a relatively low barrier of entry to the all important small hedge fund segment.br /br /Article contributed by Peter Curley of a href="http://www.nirvanasolutions.com/web/"Nirvana Solutions/abr /br /h4Related to New Prime Brokerage Model Emergingbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: prime brokerage trends, prime brokerage news, prime brokerage, prime broker, prime brokers, California prime brokerage, new york prime brokerage, Dallas prime broker servicesdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=mTrhhK3W"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=mTrhhK3W" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=MtgjPHXb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=EExvxQJN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=EExvxQJN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/epLczgd2n8k" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Advertising Marketing Restrictions | Ideas

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:07:57 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Advertising/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Ideasbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" alt="Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas" title="Hedge Fund Marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUiIsG1ZZbI/AAAAAAAACqw/8JSq313Ucb8/s200/Hedge-Fund-Advertising-Marketing-Restrictions.jpg" alt="Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas" title="Hedge Fund Advertising Restrictions" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280620854422103474" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com)There are many restrictions on hedge fund advertising and marketing. Due to the broad mandates and relatively lenient registration and disclosure rules hedge funds in the United States are only allowed to accept investments from accredited investors and institutions.br /br /While this means hedge funds cannot take out TV or radio commercials there are many more gray areas where many hedge funds are now “promoting” or “branding” themselves. I never provide financial advice on HedgeFundBlogger.com and this is surely not a recommended or list of “safe” ways to market your fund. No matter what you hear from a consultant or at a conference always check with your own compliance officer or legal counsel before taking any action. Here is a list of ways in which funds are currently marketing their strategies:br /br /• span style="font-weight: bold;"Websites /span– Many funds have websites describing their firm and investment strategy. Some go as far as to explain what their strategy is in detail along with their current assets under management and who is on their portfolio management team. These websites may cost between $1,000 and $25,000 to create and generally $30-500/month to maintain. A few hedge fund managers even run blogs.br /br /• span style="font-weight: bold;"Public Relations Professionals/span – Many hedge funds actively engage public relations firms to help increase the number of quotes or in-story mentions their fund’s executives get placed within mainstream media outlets. These consultants may work on some one-off crisis management projects for a premium but generally prefer $2-12k/month retainers instead.br /br /• span style="font-weight: bold;"Book Publishing/span – One of the many ways which hedge fund managers are promoting their businesses is through publishing books on the topic of hedge funds. These books may be on industry trends, portfolio management theories or one’s experience in the industry. Many professionals within the wealth management space are hungry to learn more about hedge funds and books which bridge the gap between what can be learned within editorial articles versus an educational book. Some niche publishers will publish books by hedge fund managers but most avoid publishing anyone who doesn’t have a marketing network or a real “media brand” behind their name which has been built up for several years. Due to this fact some hedge fund managers self-publish their own books through programs such as Lulu.com.br /br /• span style="font-weight: bold;"Conferences/span – One of the ways in which hedge fund managers market themselves each week is by speaking at conferences and events within the industry. These events could discuss marketing and sales, hedge funds in general or be on niche subjects related to family offices or activist investing. This strategy can be highly effective because it can support and serve as a direct marketing arm for the strategies mentioned above. Most speaking engagements do not pay, but many firms will at least cover your expenses and display your logo and name prominently at the event. Broker dealer conferences can also be productive events for hedge fund managers to attend. If you can gain a distribution agreement with HNW-focused broker-dealer and obtain a speaking engagement or booth at their event it can be a great way to get your foot in the door with some new face-to-face relationships with HNW advisors with the specific broker-deal group holding the conference.br /br /• span style="font-weight: bold;"External Consultants/span – While not technically advertising, thousands of funds choose to use the help of external consultants to help market their hedge funds. These consultants could be experts within raising capital within a specific channel, creating marketing materials or creating a marketing message. Those consultants who take on whole or partial responsibility for raising assets on behalf of the hedge fund manager are often referred to as third party marketers. To read my past articles on these types of marketers please click here or see my website dedicated to this subject – http://ThirdPartyMarketing.com. Naturally, it is important to complete thorough due diligence upon any groups which you ask to represent you in the market for both effectiveness and compliance reasons. Do not simply sign-up with someone to represent your hedge fund simply because they promise that they can raise the assets which you have been looking to raise.br /br /There are many other ways to market and grow your hedge fund which are not related to advertising or traditional marketing but most of these fall under more traditional means or external consultants. If you have any unique ideas or have heard of any other effective methods that fast growing hedge funds have used, please send them in by email or simply leave a comment below.br /br /Read over 50 additional articles within our a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html"Hedge Fund Marketing Tip/as section by clicking a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html"here/a.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas/h4ullia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"/spana href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/02/institutional-investors-hedge-fund-due.html"Marketing to Institutional Investors/a/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"/spana title="hedge fund seed capital" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-seed-capital.html" description="hedge fund seed capital" alt="hedge fund seed capital"Hedge Fund Seed Capital/a/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"/spana alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/raising-new-hedge-fund-capital-during.html" title=""Raising New Hedge Fund Capital During the Crisis/a/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"/spana title="fund of hedge fund databases" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/01/fund-of-hedge-funds-database.html" description="fund of hedge fund databases" alt="fund of hedge fund databases"Top 9 Hedge Fund Database Selection Tips/a/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"/spana title="hedge fund capital raising" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/raising-capital-with-tenacity.html" description="hedge fund capital raising" alt="hedge fund capital raising"Raising Capital With Tenacity/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Advertising, Hedge Fund Advertisement, Advertising for Hedge Funds, hedge fund marketing, marketing for hedge funds, hedge fund, hedge funds, investments, investmentdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=izG4Z8TG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=izG4Z8TG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=kTz58hfX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=yrVexvCp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=yrVexvCp" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/cL1A8ruVyU8" height="1" width="1"/

Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Fund of Fund Letter

Richard C. Wilson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:02:22 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBernard Madoff/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Letterbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUL7gaCq4MI/AAAAAAAACqI/asPyKc8uNIQ/s1600-h/Bernard-Madoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUL7gaCq4MI/AAAAAAAACqI/asPyKc8uNIQ/s200/Bernard-Madoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279058247396548802" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related to the Bernard Madoff hedge fund fraud case/span - A hedge fund investor just sent me a letter he received from his hedge fund of fund. This is interesting because funds are learning to react very quickly to these types of fraud events to separate themselves from the situation. It also points out that Madoff's hedge fund traded through and was its own custodian of the assets of their own hedge fund - a often frowned upon approach which most hedge funds do not use.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Here is the letter:/spanbr /br /As many of you are aware, yesterday evening the SEC initiated proceedings against Bernard L. Madoff and Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. We wish to communicate that our hedge fund of funds do not currently have nor have they ever had direct investments with any of the aforementioned entities.br /br /We are familiar with the split-strike conversion strategy the Madoff funds employed. In our judgment, the reported returns of the Madoff funds exceeded what can be reasonably expected from the strategy. Since the return profile could not be explained to our satisfaction, we did not consider the fund for investment.br /br /In addition, Madoff's organization was the investment advisor, prime broker/custodian, and executed all the fund's trades through his broker dealer. Our due diligence process precludes us from doing business with funds that are set up with the limited oversight implicit in such a structure.br /br /The efforts of sound investment research and operational due diligence are important inbr /any market environment. The market environment we are currently experiencing exposes the strengths and weaknesses of those efforts. We will continue to work to protect our limited partners and their assets.br /br /Please feel free to contact me or any member of our team with questions or comments.br /br /Read our profile on the a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/bernard-madoff-case-hedge-fund-fraud.html"Benard Madoff Hedge Fund Fraud/a case by clicking a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/bernard-madoff-case-hedge-fund-fraud.html"here/a.br /h4Related to Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Fund of Fund Letterbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Bernard Madoff, Madoff Hedge Fund, Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund, Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Fraud, Bernard Madoff Hedge Funds, Bernard Madoff Funds Fruadulent Lossesdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=29uu2lDh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=29uu2lDh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=hlQwsXpu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=lcGy6bnV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=lcGy6bnV" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/eGtNvCWmgNU" height="1" width="1"/

Bernard Madoff Case Hedge Fund Fraud

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:25:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBernard Madoff/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUKy3x3S9vI/AAAAAAAACqA/Vrcktmqe6jw/s1600-h/Bernard-Maddoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud-Case.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUKy3x3S9vI/AAAAAAAACqA/Vrcktmqe6jw/s200/Bernard-Maddoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud-Case.jpg" alt="Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud" title="Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278978384579458802" border="0" //aNews came out last night that Bernard Madoff may have fraudulently lost his clients up to $50B. He is accused of running a Ponzi scheme in what some say is the largest fraud case since Enron.br /br /This is going to encourage government officials to layer on additional regulation of hedge funds across the industry. The loose term "hedge fund" has led to a rapid expansion of the industry over the past 10 years but it also means that when any investment related bad press surfaces someone may have been running what gets referred to as a hedge fund. Here are quotes on the situation from various articles:br /blockquoteThe former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market is best known as the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the closely-held market-making firm he launched in 1960. But he also ran a hedge fund that U.S. prosecutors said racked up $50 billion of fraudulent losses.br /br /Madoff told senior employees of his firm on Wednesday that "it's all just one big lie" and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme," with estimated investor losses of about $50 billion, according to the U.S. Attorney's criminal complaint against him. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/bs_nm/us_madoff_arrest"source/a/blockquoteblockquote"There is no innocent explanation," Madoff said, according to the criminal complaint. He told the agents that it was all his fault, and that he "paid investors with money that wasn't there," according to the complaint.br /br /The $50 billion allegedly lost would make the hedge fund one of the biggest frauds in history. When former energy trading giant Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001, one of the largest at the time, it had $63.4 billion in assets.br /br /U.S. prosecutors charged Madoff, 70, with a single count of securities fraud. They said he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $5 million.br /br /"Our complaint alleges a stunning fraud -- both in terms of scope and duration," said Scott Friestad, the SEC's deputy enforcer. "We are moving quickly and decisively to stop the scheme and protect the remaining assets for investors."br /br /Dan Horwitz, Madoff's lawyer, told reporters outside a downtown Manhattan courtroom where he was charged, "Bernard Madoff is a longstanding leader in the financial services industry. We will fight to get through this unfortunate set of events."br /a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BA7IK20081212?feedType=RSSamp;feedName=topNewsamp;pageNumber=1amp;virtualBrandChannel=10272"source/abr /br /Earlier this month, the criminal complaint says, Mr. Madoff told one of his sons that "clients had requested approximately $7 billion in redemptions, that he was struggling to obtain the liquidity necessary to meet those obligations." On Tuesday, the complaint alleges, Mr. Madoff added that he wanted to pay bonuses to employees this month, which was earlier than usual.br /br /The next day, the sons met with Mr. Madoff at his office to ask about the bonus situation because he had appeared to be under "great stress" in prior weeks, they told the FBI. Mr. Madoff refused to answer their questions and arranged to meet them at his Manhattan apartment, the complaint says. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122903010173099377.html?mod=testMod"source/a/blockquotespan style="font-weight: bold;"Here is the SEC press release:/spanbr /br /Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Bernard L. Madoff and his investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, with securities fraud for a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme that he perpetrated on advisory clients of his firm. The SEC is seeking emergency relief for investors, including an asset freeze and the appointment of a receiver for the firm.br /br /The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that Madoff yesterday informed two senior employees that his investment advisory business was a fraud. Madoff told these employees that he was "finished," that he had "absolutely nothing," that "it's all just one big lie," and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme." The senior employees understood him to be saying that he had for years been paying returns to certain investors out of the principal received from other, different investors. Madoff admitted in this conversation that the firm was insolvent and had been for years, and that he estimated the losses from this fraud were at least $50 billion.br /br /"We are alleging a massive fraud — both in terms of scope and duration," said Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "We are moving quickly and decisively to stop the fraud and protect remaining assets for investors, and we are working closely with the criminal authorities to hold Mr. Madoff accountable."br /br /Andrew M. Calamari, Associate Director of Enforcement in the SEC's New York Regional Office, added, "Our complaint alleges a stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions."br /br /According to regulatory filings, the Madoff firm had more than $17 billion in assets under management as of the beginning of 2008. It appears that virtually all assets of the advisory business are missing.br /br /Madoff founded the firm in 1960 and has been a prominent member of the securities industry throughout his career. Madoff served as vice chairman of the NASD, a member of its board of governors, and chairman of its New York region. He was also a member of NASDAQ Stock Market's board of governors and its executive committee and served as chairman of its trading committee.br /br /The complaint charges the defendants with violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. In addition to emergency and interim relief, the SEC seeks a final judgment permanently enjoining the defendants from future violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and ordering them to pay financial penalties and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest.br /br /The SEC's investigation is continuing.br /br /The SEC acknowledges the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-293.htm"source/abr /br /h4Related to Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraudbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Bernard Madoff, Madoff, Madoff Hedge Fund, Madoff Case, Bernard Madoff Fraud, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, Bernard Madoff Securities, Bernard Maddoff Funddiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=PuPp6ONi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=PuPp6ONi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=SGjhGMkr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=xplMpNgw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=xplMpNgw" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/48qc8A2wjds" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Manager Profiles

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:58:57 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Manager Notesbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Manager Profile Updatesbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SLP0nnKI5hI/AAAAAAAABlQ/JYTGJktpO4c/s200/Hedge-Fund-Tracker-Tool-Press-Releases.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 131px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SLP0nnKI5hI/AAAAAAAABlQ/JYTGJktpO4c/s200/Hedge-Fund-Tracker-Tool-Press-Releases.jpg" alt="" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) Looking to keep tabs on clients, potential clients or potential future employers? Our site tracks 1,000 hedge funds within our a alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool /a and we are actively building profiles on these funds - and making them available with no registration required.br /br /Over the last 48 hours our team has updated the Hedge Fund Tracker Note profiles on 10 different hedge funds. These profiles include videos, articles, press releases and statistics which are publicly available on these funds.br /br /Here are links to these 10 updated tracker note profiles:br /ullia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Pershing Square Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/pershing-square-capital-management.html" title="Pershing Square Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Pershing Square Capital Management/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Rady Asset Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/rady-asset-management-hedge-fund.html" title="Rady Asset Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Rady Asset Management/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: York Capital | James Dinan | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/york-capital-james-dinan-hedge-fund.html" title="York Capital | James Dinan | Hedge Fund Notes"York Capital/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Viking Global Investors | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2004/11/viking-global-investors-hedge-fund_15.html" title="Viking Global Investors | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Viking Global Investors/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Paulson Invesment Company | John Paulson | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/paulson-invesment-company-john-paulson.html" title="Paulson Invesment Company | John Paulson | Hedge Fund Notes"Paulson Invesment Company/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bessent Capital | Scott Bessent | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/bessent-capital-scott-bessent-hedge.html" title="Bessent Capital | Scott Bessent | Hedge Fund Notes"Bessent Capital/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: OakRun Capital LLC | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/oakrun-capital-llc-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="OakRun Capital LLC | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"OakRun Capital LLC/a/lilia alt="Och Ziff Capital Management Group" title="Och Ziff Capital Management Group" description="Holdings and strategy of hedge fund Och Ziff Capital Management Group" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/och-ziff-capital-management-group-hedge.html"Och Ziff Capital Management Group/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: T2 Capital Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/t2-capital-partners-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="T2 Capital Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"T2 Capital Partners/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Olympia Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2004/11/olympia-capital-management-hedge-fund_16.html" title="Olympia Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Olympia Capital Management/a/li/ulTags: Bessent Capital, Pershing Square Capital Management, Rady Asset Management, York Capital, Viking Global investors, Paulson and Co, Oakrun Capital, Och Ziff Capital, T2, Olympiadiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Vv27L3yc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Vv27L3yc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=fEjrmwfw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=CXPsCAFz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=CXPsCAFz" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/GjnBtZPnBhs" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Regulators, Investors Managers

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:51:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Regulators/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Regulators, Investors amp; Managers/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST_nH4o4oqI/AAAAAAAACpg/DtHEFHupfhM/s1600-h/Hedge-Fund-Regulators.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST_nH4o4oqI/AAAAAAAACpg/DtHEFHupfhM/s200/Hedge-Fund-Regulators.jpg" alt="Hedge Fund Regulators, Investors amp; Managers" title="Hedge Fund Regulators, Investors amp; Managers" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278191410950480546" border="0" //aThis morning I got an email from a friend in the industry who is in charge of developing relationships with hedge fund executives. She was preparing a report for a committee at her organization and wanted some feedback on the validity of many reports she had read over the last month on the state of the hedge fund industry. While they would be too lengthy to list below these are reports that you may find within my November and December blog archives produced by mainstream outlets such as the WSJ and FT. Here is my general response to what I see happening in the industry:br /______________br /br /It is true that leverage is harder to get for some funds and impossible for some more exotic asset classes. That said many hedge funds are operating as normal and a decent percentage of the industry was never using leverage in the first place.br /br /While many hedge funds have been shot down and small hedge funds will have a hard time raising assets the individuals quotes within some of these articles are 100% wrong on small hedge funds riding into the sunset. I usually hear from 3 new hedge fund startups every 10 days. In the last 36 hours I have heard from 6 new startups and everyone I talk to who knows what is going on thinks there will be hundreds if not over 1,000 new funds in 2009. The market is at an all time low and thousands of millionaire bankers have lost their jobs - they have nowhere to go...many will start funds. Raising capital will be hard but many will try and have at least $15-20M in friends and family money to start with.br /br /Regulations will come and hedge funds will be controlled more within specific asset classes but not nearly as much as banks will. I believe hedge funds will prosper again as the group as the market eventually corrects (whenever that is) and investors move away from cash.br /br /I believe many managers will be charging 1 and 20 or remain charging 2 and 20 and that fund of funds will be pressure to lower their fees after dismal protection from downside losses.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Regulators, Investors amp; Managersbr //h4ullia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Regulators, Regulators of Hedge Funds, Investors in Hedge Funds, Managers of Hedge Funds, Professionals Managing Hedge Funds, Investors in Hedge Fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=WP8lDpap"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=WP8lDpap" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ZAuSyX7W"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=82EphrRz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=82EphrRz" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/v-sdRsdv5Ew" height="1" width="1"/

Independent Sales Consultant | Why Gitomer Sells

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:59:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bIndependent Sales Consultant/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Independent Sales Consultant | Marketing Tipsbr //span/b/h2br /My favorite independent sales consultant is Jeffrey Gitomer who runs BuyGitomer. Why? Because he is a geyser of free helpful advice and information. He provides videos, weekly newsletters and inexpensively priced books which provide advice which can change your whole attitude and career. He gives away much more than he receives.br /br /Gitomer was an average sales professional until he decided to write a weekly sales column for a local newspaper. This column quickly grew and now is published in over 200 newspapers and magazines. His phone rings off each hour with new opportunities for him.br /br /Gitomer motivated me to write a book during my MBA program. It was awful, please do not read this book. What was great about this process though was it taught me the importance of writing daily. It took me 9 months to write the first 100 pages of the book and only 20 days to write the next 200 pages. The secret was sitting down and writing 10 pages/day. Since then I have started a few different blogs and I know make a living off of my daily writing habits, 100% of my consulting and sales are completed as a result of my daily blogging and article writing. br /br /Here is an example of the type of advice that Gitomer delivers:br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zh6yd6wfCgUamp;rel=0amp;color1=0x5d1719amp;color2=0xcd311bamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zh6yd6wfCgUamp;rel=0amp;color1=0x5d1719amp;color2=0xcd311bamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /br /br /h4Related to Independent Sales Consultant/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Independent Sales Consultant, Sales Consultant, Sales Management Consultant, Sales Consultants, Sales marketing Consultant, Sales Marketing Consulting, sales training consultingdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Lms6euQh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Lms6euQh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=vncbTFDa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=gy7KAAIT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=gy7KAAIT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/djEz8Cjyy3o" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Benchmark Performance Update

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:03:14 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Benchmarks/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Benchmark Performance Update/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST7A370WU4I/AAAAAAAACpQ/Gur-LzUhmLw/s1600-h/hedge-fund-performance-benchmarks.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 148px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST7A370WU4I/AAAAAAAACpQ/Gur-LzUhmLw/s200/hedge-fund-performance-benchmarks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277867880507396994" border="0" //a(HedgeFundBlogger.com 12.8.08) Just got an email from my friends at HedgeFund.net - they have released some interesting hedge fund benchmark data and redemption numbers. Here is a quick excerpt from this release:br /blockquoteHedgeFund.net today released early estimates indicating total hedge fundbr /assets fell an additional 5.2% in November to $2.11 trillion largely due to investors redeeming a record $130.04 billion during the month. Hedge fund performance losses slowed in November, but remained negative for the sixth month in a row. The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average, an equal weighted benchmark of all single manager hedge funds and CTA/managed futures products in the HedgeFund.net database, was -0.47% in November and -14.75% YTD. The HedgeFund.net database consists of over 8,600 current hedge fund, fund of funds, and CTA products.br /br /The process of investor redemptions is not immediate and mounting losses during the year may have led to the spike in redemptions in both October and November. The hedge fund industry is in its largest ever drawdown and redemption requests likely exacerbated the situation due to forced selling. Despite record losses, the average hedge fund has significantly outperformed the Samp;P 500 Total Return Index which was -37.66% YTD through November./blockquoteLooking at this same report it looks like the span style="font-weight: bold;"Top 3 Best Performing Benchmarks:/spanbr /olliShort Bias/liliHealthcare/liliFixed Income (non-arbitrage)/li/olspan style="font-weight: bold;"Top 3 Worst Performing Hedge Fund Benchmarks:/spanbr /olliDistressed/liliLong Only/liliTechnology/li/olPlease click on the image below to see a full run down on the recent benchmark performance figures.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"(Click Image Below to View Figures)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6_aP44A2I/AAAAAAAACpI/IR4P03izkVQ/s1600-h/Benchmarks.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6_aP44A2I/AAAAAAAACpI/IR4P03izkVQ/s400/Benchmarks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277866270987387746" border="0" //abr /h4Related to Hedge Fund Benchmark Performance Updatebr //h4ullia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Over 100 Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Performance Figures, Hedge Fund Benchmarks, Hedge Fund Benchmark Performance, Performance of hedge fund benchmarks, benchmark performance numbersdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=1QOjL5jW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=1QOjL5jW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ZqnRB1b5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=UMofBWbQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=UMofBWbQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/hf6i1lulHY0" height="1" width="1"/

International Hedge Fund Inquiry | Tips Tools?

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:54:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bInternational Hedge Funds/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"International Hedge Fund Inquiry | Tips amp; Tools?/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" alt="International Hedge Fund" title="International Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/international-hedge-fund-inquiry-tips.html"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6wK4Qa7dI/AAAAAAAACow/f9qLeuiwGH8/s200/International-Hedge-Funds.jpg" alt="International Hedge Fund Inquiry" title="International Hedge Fund" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277849514271239634" border="0" //aI just got this email in this morning:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Question/span: I am conducting research on hedge funds from here in New York but my focus is on Europe and international hedge funds in general. Do you know of a book or thorough white paper on this subject or any online resources which you could point me towards?br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Answer/span: I am not aware of any solid books on this topic but our team has compiled a series of international hedge fund guides, these may be a good starting point for your research. Here are links to a few of the most popular guides we have put out:br /ullia title="Hedge Funds London" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-funds-london.html" description="Hedge Funds London, Hedge Funds in London, Hedge Fund London, Hedge Fund in London" alt="Hedge Funds London"London/a/lilia title="Asia Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/asia-hedge-fund.html" alt="Asia Hedge Fund " descripiton=" Guide to Asia Hedge Funds"Asia/a/lilia title="Australian Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/australian-hedge-funds.html" description="A guide to hedge funds in Australia" alt="Australian Hedge Funds, Australia Hedge Fund, Australian Hedge Fund"Australia/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bermuda-hedge-fund-guide.html"Bermuda/a/lilia title="Brazil Hedge Funds - Overview of Hedge Funds in Brazil" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/brazil-hedge-funds.html" description="Brazil Hedge Funds 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Guide to Hedge Funds in France"France/a/span/lilia title="Germany Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/germany-hedge-fund-guide.html" description="A guide to Germany Hedge Funds" alt="Germany Hedge Fund"Germany/a/lilia title="Hedge Fund Hong Kong" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/hedge-fund-hong-kong.html" description="Guide to hedge funds in Hong Kong" alt="Hedge Fund Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hedge Funds"Hong Kong/a/lilia alt="Indonesia Hedge Fund Investment Research Guide" title="Indonesia Hedge Fund Investment Research Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/indonesia-hedge-fund-investment.html"Indonesia/a/lilia title="Japanese Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/japenese-hedge-funds.html" description="Guide to hedge funds in Japan" alt="Japanese Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds in Japan, Hedge Fund in Japan"Japan/a/lilia title="Hedge Fund Mexico" 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Paulson Co 13F Holdings Analysis | Q3 2008

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:40:13 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bPaulson amp; Co Holdingsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Paulson amp; Co 13F Holdings Analysis | Q3 2008br //span/b/h2This post on Paulson and Co is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's a alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" title="Investment Securities Holdings" description="Investment securities analysis 13F holdings" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Investment Securities Tool/a which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Please click on the pictures below each section to view the securities held along with their values and current share holdings as of Paulson and Co.'s Q3 2008 filing:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Security Holdings Changes 1 of 3 (Click Image to View)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6sny29uYI/AAAAAAAACoY/pt3BxIP51Mk/s1600-h/Paulson+and+co-1+of+3.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6sny29uYI/AAAAAAAACoY/pt3BxIP51Mk/s400/Paulson+and+co-1+of+3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277845612991986050" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Security Holdings Changes 2 of 3 (Click Image to View)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6stJWOltI/AAAAAAAACog/rpMlrrrMGPU/s1600-h/Paulson+and+co-2+of+3.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 136px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6stJWOltI/AAAAAAAACog/rpMlrrrMGPU/s400/Paulson+and+co-2+of+3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277845704928040658" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Security Holdings Changes 3 of 3 (Click Image to View)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6syV7wTJI/AAAAAAAACoo/-IHdl_GfIPs/s1600-h/Paulson+and+co-3+of+3.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 147px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6syV7wTJI/AAAAAAAACoo/-IHdl_GfIPs/s400/Paulson+and+co-3+of+3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277845794206010514" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Securities Mentioned Within This 13F Filing:/spanbr /ulliAffiliated Computer Services Inc (ACS) /liliAnheuser-Busch Cos Inc (BUD) /liliApplied Biosystems Inc (CRA) /liliBank Of America Corp (BAC) /liliBarr Pharmaceuticals Inc (BRL) /liliBce Inc (BCE) /liliBoston Scientific Corp (BSX) /liliBrocade Communications Systems In ... (BRCD) /liliCheniere Energy Inc (LNG) /liliChoicepoint Inc (CPS) /liliCia Cervecerias Unidas Sa (CU) /liliElectronic Data Systems Corp (EDS) /liliGenentech Inc (DNA) /liliHercules Inc (HPC) /liliHercules Offshore Inc (HERO) /liliKinross Gold Corp (KGC) /liliMacrovision Solutions Corp (MVSN) /liliMerrill Lynch And Co Inc (MER) /liliMirant Corp (MIR) /liliNavteq Corp (NVT) /liliNrg Energy Inc (NRG) /liliNymex Holdings Inc (NMX) /liliPhilip Morris International Inc (PM) /liliRohm And Haas Co (ROH) /liliTime Warner Inc (TWX) /liliW-H Energy Services Inc (WHQ) /liliWm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY) /liliYahoo Inc (YHOO) /li/ulSource: Q3 2008 13F SEC a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035674/0001035674-08-000011.txt"Filing/a | a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mffais.com/index.html"MFF/abr /h4Related to Paulson amp; Co 13F Holdings Analysis | Q3 2008br //h4ulliAnalysis #1: a alt="Tontine Capital Partners LP" title="Tontine Capital Partners LP Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/tontine-capital-partners-lp-hedge-fund.html"Tontine Capital Partners - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #2: a alt="Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" title="Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Stephen Mendel" description="An analysis of Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Holdings and Stephen Mendel Jr." href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/lone-pine-capital-hedge-fund-stephen.html"Lone Pine Capital - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #3: a alt="Tremblant Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" title="Tremblant Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/tremblant-capital-hedge-fund-bret.html"Tremblant Capital - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #4: a alt="Maverick Capital Management 13F" title="Maverick Capital Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/maverick-capital-management-13f-lee.html"Maverick Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #5: a alt="BP Capital Management | Boone Pickens | Hedge Fund Holdings" title="BP Capital Management Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bp-capital-management-boone-pickens.html"BP Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #6: a alt="Blue Ridge Capital Hedge Fund | John A. 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Viking Global Investors LP Q3 2008 13F Holdings Performance

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:20:09 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bViking Global Investors/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Viking Global Investors LP Q3 2008 13F Holdingsbr //span/b/h2br /This post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's a alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" title="Investment Securities Holdings" description="Investment securities analysis 13F holdings" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Investment Securities Tool/a which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Please click on the pictures below each section to view the securities held along with their values and current share holdings as of Viking's Q3 2008 filing:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Added More Since Last 13F Filing (click image to view)br //spana onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mX8gQS2I/AAAAAAAACno/dFKOvogV1TQ/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors-Added+More.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mX8gQS2I/AAAAAAAACno/dFKOvogV1TQ/s400/Viking-Global-Investors-Added+More.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277838743633415010" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"New Holdings (1 of 3)/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6liHVebiI/AAAAAAAACnA/leNCGjSHd20/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--New+Holding1.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 169px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6liHVebiI/AAAAAAAACnA/leNCGjSHd20/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--New+Holding1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277837818828058146" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"New Holding (2 of 3)/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6lsu2IepI/AAAAAAAACnI/hY1Q9hlC7Fs/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors-Holding2.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 123px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6lsu2IepI/AAAAAAAACnI/hY1Q9hlC7Fs/s400/Viking-Global-Investors-Holding2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277838001232706194" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"New Holdings (3 of 3)/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6l1XYBQhI/AAAAAAAACnQ/TN40r4WHQBU/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--New+Holding3.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 130px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6l1XYBQhI/AAAAAAAACnQ/TN40r4WHQBU/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--New+Holding3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277838149551211026" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"No Change Since Last 13F Filing (1 of 1)/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mKQQTnlI/AAAAAAAACng/r-L9T3TrJ3Y/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--No+Change.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 30px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mKQQTnlI/AAAAAAAACng/r-L9T3TrJ3Y/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--No+Change.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277838508417064530" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Sold Some/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mgbK0iwI/AAAAAAAACnw/jMLbOzVqsLI/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+Some.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 114px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mgbK0iwI/AAAAAAAACnw/jMLbOzVqsLI/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+Some.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277838889303968514" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Sold All Since Last 13F Filing (1 of 2)/span span style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mpynEhvI/AAAAAAAACn4/zFKZZGDHLlg/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+All1.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 146px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6mpynEhvI/AAAAAAAACn4/zFKZZGDHLlg/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+All1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277839050215294706" border="0" //abr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Sold All Since Q2 13F Filing (2 of 2) /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"(click image to view)/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6nBX35miI/AAAAAAAACoA/E-91e568bfQ/s1600-h/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+All2.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6nBX35miI/AAAAAAAACoA/E-91e568bfQ/s400/Viking-Global-Investors--Sold+All2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277839455354984994" border="0" //aSecurities Mentioned Within Q3 13F Filing Included:br /ulliAce Ltd (ACE) /liliAlliance Data Systems Corp (ADS) /liliAmerican Medical Systems Holdings ... 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(CRL) /liliCoach Inc (COH) /liliDavita Inc (DVA) /liliDelta Air Lines Inc (DAL) /liliExpedia Inc (EXPEW) /liliFair Isaac Corp (FIC) /liliFirst Horizon National Corp (FHN) /liliFranklin Resources Inc (BEN) /liliFrontier Oil Corp (FTO) /liliGlacier Bancorp Inc (GBCI) /liliGoogle Inc (GOOG) /liliHarley-Davidson Inc (HOG) /liliHerbalife Ltd (HLF) /liliHologic Inc (HOLX) /liliHumana Inc (HUM) /liliIdearc Inc (IAR) /liliIhs Inc (IHS) /liliIllumina Inc (ILMN) /liliInvesco Ltd (AVZ) /liliItt Educational Services Inc (ESI) /liliJefferies Group Inc (JEF) /liliKeycorp (KEY) /liliKroger Cothe (KR) /liliMacrovision Solutions Corp (MVSN) /liliMassey Energy Co (MEE) /liliMastercard Inc (MA) /liliMckesson Corp (MCK) /liliMettler Toledo International Inc (MTD) /liliModuslink Global Solutions Inc (CMGI) /liliMonster Worldwide Inc (MNST) /liliMsci Inc (MXB) /liliNational City Corp (NCC) /liliNational Financial Partners Corp (NFP) /liliNii Holdings Inc (NIHD) /liliOch-Ziff Capital Management Group ... (OZM) /liliPalm Inc (PALM) /liliPlains Exploration And Production ... (PXP) /liliPricelinecom Inc (PCLN) /liliPrudential Financial Inc (PRU) /liliQualcomm Inc (QCOM) /liliQuest Diagnostics Incde (DGX) /liliRh Donnelley Corp (RHD) /liliSaic Inc (SAI) /liliSherwin-Williams Cothe (SHW) /liliSina Corpchina (SINA) /liliSouthwestern Energy Co (SWN) /liliSt Jude Medical Inc (STJ) /liliStanley Worksthe (SWK) /liliStaples Inc (SPLS) /liliSusquehanna Bancshares Inc (SUSQ) /liliThor Industries Inc (THO) /liliTidewater Inc (TDW) /liliTransocean Inc (RIG) /liliVerisign Inc (VRSN) /liliVisa Inc (V) /liliWeatherford International Ltd (WFT) /liliWhitney Holding Corp (WTNY) /li/ulSource: a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1103804/0001103804-08-000016.txt"Q3 13F SEC Filing/a | a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mffais.com/index.html"MFF/abr /h4Related to Viking Global Investors LP Q3 2008 13F Holdings Performancebr //h4ulliAnalysis #1: a alt="Tontine Capital Partners LP" title="Tontine Capital Partners LP Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/tontine-capital-partners-lp-hedge-fund.html"Tontine Capital Partners - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #2: a alt="Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" title="Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Stephen Mendel" description="An analysis of Lone Pine Capital Hedge Fund Holdings and Stephen Mendel Jr." href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/lone-pine-capital-hedge-fund-stephen.html"Lone Pine Capital - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #3: a alt="Tremblant Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" title="Tremblant Capital Hedge Fund Holdings" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/tremblant-capital-hedge-fund-bret.html"Tremblant Capital - 13F Hedge Fund Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #4: a alt="Maverick Capital Management 13F" title="Maverick Capital Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/maverick-capital-management-13f-lee.html"Maverick Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #5: a alt="BP Capital Management | Boone Pickens | Hedge Fund Holdings" title="BP Capital Management Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bp-capital-management-boone-pickens.html"BP Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #6: a alt="Blue Ridge Capital Hedge Fund | John A. Griffin" title="Blue Ridge Capital Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-ridge-capital-hedge-fund-john.html"Blue Ridge Capital 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #7: a alt="Clarium Capital Management | Peter Thiel Hedge Fund" title="Clarium Capital Management Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/clarium-capital-management-peter-thiel.html"Clarium Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #8: a alt="Greenlight Capital | David Einhorn Hedge Fund" title="Greenlight Capital | David Einhorn" description="Hedge Fund Greenlight Capital | David Einhorn" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/greenlight-capital-david-einhorn-13f.html"Greenlight Capital David Einhorn 13F Holdings/a/liliAnalysis #9: a alt="Soros Fund Management LLC | George Soros Hedge Fund" title="Soros Fund Management LLC | George Soros" description="Hedge Fund Review of Soros Fund Management LLC | George Soros" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/soros-fund-management-llc-george-soros.html"Soros Fund Management LLC 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #10: a alt="Caxton Associates Hedge Fund | 13F Holdings Analysis" title="Caxton Associates Hedge Fund | 13F Holdings Analysis" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/caxton-associates-hedge-fund-exclusive.html"Caxton Associates Hedge Fund | 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #11: a alt="Top Hedge Fund Holdings" title="Top Hedge Fund Holdings" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/top-hedge-fund-holdings-what-are-they.html"Top Hedge Fund Holdings - Original Research amp; Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #12: a alt="Tudor Hedge Fund | Paul Tudor Jones" title="Tudor Hedge Fund | Paul Tudor Jones" description="A short bio and analysis on the holdings of Tudor Hedge Fund | Paul Tudor Jones" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/tudor-hedge-fund-paul-tudor-jones-13f.html"Tudor Hedge Fund | Paul Tudor Jones 13F Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #13: a alt="Harbinger Capital | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis" title="Harbinger Capital | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/harbinger-capital-13f-hedge-fund.html"Harbinger Capital | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #14: a alt="Atticus Capital Management | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis" title="Atticus Capital Management | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/atticus-capital-management-13f-hedge.html"Atticus Capital Management | 13F Hedge Fund Holdings Analysis/a/liliAnalysis #15: span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Jana Partners LLC Hedge Fund 13G Filing Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/jana-partners-llc-hedge-fund-13g-filing.html" title="Jana Partners LLC Hedge Fund 13G Filing Notes"Jana Partners LLC Hedge Fund 13G Filing Notes/a/span/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Analysis #16: /spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Julia Robertson - Hedge Fund Security Purchases" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/julia-robertson-hedge-fund-security.html" title="Julia Robertson - Hedge Fund Security Purchases"Julian Robertson - Hedge Fund Security Purchases/a/span/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Analysis #17: /spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Warren Buffett Holdings | Investing in Stocks" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/warren-buffett-holdings-investing-in.html" title="Warren Buffett Holdings | Investing in Stocks"Warren Buffett Holdings | Investing in Stocks/a/span/lilispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Analysis #18: /spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Blue Ridge Capital 13G Holdings Analysis | Security Purchase" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/blue-ridge-capital-13g-holdings.html" title="Blue Ridge Capital 13G Holdings Analysis | Security Purchase"Blue Ridge Capital 13G Holdings Analysis | Security Purchase/a/span/li/ulTags: Viking Global Investors, Viking Global Hedge Fund, Viking Global Investors LP Holdings, Viking Global Investors Fund, Viking Global Investors Greenwich, Andreas Halvorsendiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=pRNqo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=pRNqo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=lPFPO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=lPFPO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=X7hjo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=X7hjo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/479726712" height="1" width="1"/

Marc Dreier Investment Fraud Case | Updates

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:25:36 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bMark Dreier/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Marc Dreier Investment Fraud Case/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6b1tiL2TI/AAAAAAAACmw/maHF_6dezJE/s1600-h/Marc-Dreier-Fraud-Case.jpeg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6b1tiL2TI/AAAAAAAACmw/maHF_6dezJE/s200/Marc-Dreier-Fraud-Case.jpeg" alt="Marc Dreier Investment Fraud Case" title="Marc Dreier Investment Fraud Case" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277827160383150386" border="0" //aHere are a series of articles and videos on the Mark Dreier investment fraud case:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Resource 1: (12.8.08)/span Mix allegations of financial fraud with sophisticated investors, add in the arrest of a high-profile lawyer and you've got a good old-fashioned Wall Street scandal.br /br /Prominent New York attorney Marc Dreier was arrested at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Sunday night and charged with two counts of fraud in a $113 million scheme to defraud investors that he had allegedly engineered since October. His return to New York followed his arrest and three-day jail stay in Canada last week, where he was accused of impersonating a Canadian pension fund official as part of the scheme. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/12/08/marc-dreier-fraud-biz-wall-cx_lm_1208dreier.html"source/abr /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Resource 2: (12.7.08)/spanbr /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w3hx8tkgg0Uamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w3hx8tkgg0Uamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /br /br /h4Related to Marc Dreier Investment Fraud Casebr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Marc Dreier, Marc Dreier Investment Fraud, Marc Dreier Fraud, Mark Dreier LP, Mark Dreier Arrested, Mark Dreier, Marc Dreier Investor Fraud, Marc Dreier Newsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=0Cuco"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=0Cuco" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=cr7aO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=cr7aO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=pL6xo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=pL6xo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/479672160" height="1" width="1"/

Gate Clauses and Lock Up Periods for Hedge Fund Investors

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:58:13 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bGate Clauses amp; Lock Ups/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Gate Clauses amp; Lock Up Periods for Investors/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6Vek9SU8I/AAAAAAAACmo/pisAcon781Y/s1600-h/hedge-fund-gating-clause-lock-up-periods.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST6Vek9SU8I/AAAAAAAACmo/pisAcon781Y/s200/hedge-fund-gating-clause-lock-up-periods.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277820165874144194" border="0" //aHedge Fund Research's Global Hedge Fund Index was down 3.04 percent in November, after a drop of 9.26 percent in October (see FIN Alternatives a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.finalternatives.com/node/6269"article/a). That brings the index down 22.3% YTD through November. Continued poor performance has increased redemption requests, causing an increasing number of hedge funds to block investors from redeeming shares (see NY Times a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/business/05views.html?_r=1amp;ref=business"article/a). The increased addition of illiquid investments over the years (such as real estate and private equity) has caused many funds to start considering a new model that would require longer lock-up times for lower fees. High-water marks, which would force some under-performing funds to earn back 25 percent or more before taking profit fees, will cause additional funds to close, although others insist they will take the high road and not close until they are profitable again.br /br /As of the end of last week, approximately 100 hedge funds have placed restrictions on withdraws, in what is becoming a financial roach motel where investors can check in, but they cannot check out (see Bloomberg a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039amp;refer=columnist_hassettamp;sid=anXt996yzU6o"article/a). The increased use of gates has even spread to some of the previous stars of the industry, such as Fortress Investment Group, Tudor Investment Corp., and D.E. Shaw amp; Company (see WSJ a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122868561280086255.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"article/a). Furthermore, the problems are even worse for those funds investing in emerging markets, which continue to under-perform and are down an additional 1.41% on average in November (see Bloomberg a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchiveamp;sid=aaxduJqaKqjc"article/a).br /br /Finally, even with new gating restrictions, some hedge funds are also being forced to renegotiate borrowing terms with their prime brokerage lenders as losses and redemption requests increase (see Financial Times a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/16c27a02-c26d-11dd-a350-000077b07658.html"article/a). Many prime brokers are also seeing this as an opportunity to drop clients or renegotiate terms that were originally in favor of the large hedge funds who previously had bargaining power. No doubt many large investors with liquidity will be able to throw their weight around in a similar way as they begin renegotiating lower fee structures in return for longer lockup periods.br /br /by a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bullbeartrader.com/2008/12/more-hedge-fund-gates-restrictions-and.html"Davide Enke/abr /h4Related to Gate Clauses and Lock Up Periods for Hedge Fund Investors/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Gating Clauses, Gate Clauses, Hedge Fund Gates, Hedge Fund Lock Up Periods, Lock Up Investment Clauses, Gate Clause, Hedge Fund Redemptions, hedge fund, hedge fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Pxopo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Pxopo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=R5bGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=R5bGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=vaJmo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=vaJmo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/479641519" height="1" width="1"/

Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions | Hedge Fund Insights

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:47:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bMergers and Acquisitionsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions | Videobr //span/b/h2Here is a short video of hedge fund manager Phillip Goldstein discussing mergers and acquisitions and how the boards of most companies are not being held responsible for the performance of the companies which they are helping run. He notes that in many cases the CEO made by axed for bad performance or smeared in the press while the members of the board are largely ignored.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wLtQ2Y7FpV8amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wLtQ2Y7FpV8amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions | Hedge Fund Insights/h4ullia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Mergers and Acquisitions, Recent Mergers and Acquisitions, Merger and Acquisition, mergers, acquisitionsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=J3RXo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=J3RXo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=5h1HO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=5h1HO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=z8q7o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=z8q7o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/479174334" height="1" width="1"/

Baupost Group | 13F Hedge Fund Analysis

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:58:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"Baupost Groupbr //h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Baupost Group | Hedge Fund Notes/span/b/h2Please span style="font-weight: bold;"click/span on the image below to view a report on the top 15 security position of Baupost Group according to their most recent 13F filings with the SEC on November 14th, 2008.br /br /h2 style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ar?id=pkKTjm5KKNaMjvhGl4u6-fA.10792673061126837719.5542208977823802783amp;hl=enamp;action=1amp;tile=0amp;rpert=20amp;tfe=qa_134amp;srow=0amp;fprt=falseamp;scol=0amp;ecol=undefined"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 539px; height: 154px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Fgf02l7GQmM/STjToS3DBsI/AAAAAAAAAZo/6x_YOKqPR-0/s320/cropped.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276199652675487426" border="0" //a/h2br /Shares mentioned within Baupost's most recent 13F filing included:br /ulli2020 Chinacap Acquirco Inc (TTY) /liliAcergy Sa (ACGY) /liliAcusphere Inc (ACUS) /liliAlliance One International Inc (AOI) /liliAlternative Asset Management Acqu ... (AMV) /liliAtlas Pipeline Holdings Lp (AHD) /liliAtlas Pipeline Partners Lp (APL) /liliAudiovox Corp (VOXX) /liliBorders Group Inc (BGP) /liliBreitburn Energy Partners Lp (BBEP) /liliCapitalsource Inc (CSE) /liliCapitol Acquisition Corp (CLA) /liliCenterplate Inc (CVP) /liliChina Holdings Acquisition Corp (HOL) /liliClearpoint Business Resources Inc (CPBRU) /liliCore-Mark Holding Co Inc (CORE) /liliDomtar Corp (UFS) /liliEnterprise Gp Holdings Lp (EPE) /liliExchange Fs Group Plc (EXH.BE) /liliGlobal Consumer Acquisition Corp (GHC) /liliGolden Pond Healthcare Inc (GPH) /liliGsc Acquisition Co (GGA) /liliHicks Acquisition Co I Inc (TOH) /liliHighlands Acquisition Corp (HIA) /liliHorizon Lines Inc (HRZ) /liliIacinteractivecorp (IACI) /liliInter-Atlantic Financial Inc (IAN) /liliIturan Location And Control Ltd (ITRN) /liliKbl Healthcare Acquisition Corp I ... (KHA) /liliLiberty Acquisition Holdings Corp (LIA) /liliLinn Energy Llc (LINE) /liliMarathon Acquisition Corp (MAQ) /liliMultimedia Games Inc (MGAM) /liliNews Corp (NWS) /liliNewstrike Capital Inc (NWS.A) /liliNrdc Acquisition Corp (NAQ) /liliOmnova Solutions Inc (OMN) /liliPdl Biopharma Inc (PDLI) /liliPre-Paid Legal Services Inc (PPD) /liliProspect Acquisition Corp (PAX) /liliRhi Entertainment Inc (RHIE) /liliSapphire Industrials Corp (FYR) /liliSchool Specialty Inc (SCHS) /liliSeanergy Maritime Corp (SRG) /liliSp Acquisition Holdings Inc (DSP) /liliStream Global Services Inc (OOO) /liliSyneron Medical Ltd (ELOS) /liliTheravance Inc (THRX) /liliTm Entertainment And Media Inc (TMI) /liliTremisis Energy Acquisition Corp ... (TGY) /liliTriplecrown Acquisition Corp (TCW) /liliUnitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) /liliViasat Inc (VSAT) /liliVictory Acquisition Corp (VRY) /liliWellpoint Inc (WLP) /li/ulSource: a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1061768/0001061768-08-000206.txt"SEC 13F Filing/a | a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mffais.com/institutions/123932/"MFF Holdings/abr /br /View over 50 additional holdings analysis reports here: a alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/ah4Related to: Baupost Group | Hedge Fund Notes/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Baupost Group, Baupost Group 13F, Baupost Group Holdings, Baupost Group Assets, Baupost Group Hedge Fund, Baupost Group LLC, the Baupost Group LLC, Baupost Group Bostondiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=3zw8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=3zw8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=zz6jO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=zz6jO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=2dvCo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=2dvCo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/478895529" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Manager Updates | Tracker Profiles

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:57:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Managers/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Manager | Hedge Fund Notes/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST1FIoBWyII/AAAAAAAACmY/OUbzph2qQfU/s1600-h/Hedge-Fund-Manager-News.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 104px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/ST1FIoBWyII/AAAAAAAACmY/OUbzph2qQfU/s200/Hedge-Fund-Manager-News.jpg" alt="Hedge Fund Managers News" title="Hedge Fund Managers News" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277450352832465026" border="0" //aOver the last 48 hours our team has updated the Hedge Fund Tracker Note profiles on 9 different hedge funds. These profiles include videos, articles, press releases and statistics which are publicly available on these funds.br /br /Here are links to these 9 updated tracker note posts:br /ullia alt="Citadel Investment Group LLC" title="Citadel Investment Group" description="Citadel Investment Group LLC ran by Kenneth Griffin" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/citadel-investment-group-llc-kenneth.html"Citadel Investment Group LLC/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Acorn Capital Group | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/acorn-capital-group-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="Acorn Capital Group | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Acorn Capital Group/a/lilia alt="Fortress Investment Group LLC" title="Fortress Investment Group LLC" description="Fortress Investment Group LLC Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/fortress-investment-group-llc.html"Fortress Investment Group LLC/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Paulson Invesment Company | John Paulson | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/paulson-invesment-company-john-paulson.html" title="Paulson Invesment Company | John Paulson | Hedge Fund Notes"Paulson Invesment Company/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bridgewater Capital | Ray Dalio | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/bridgewater-capital-ray-dalio-hedge.html" title="Bridgewater Capital | Ray Dalio | Hedge Fund Notes"Bridgewater Capital/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: K2 Advisors | Fund of Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/k2-advisors-fund-of-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="K2 Advisors | Fund of Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"K2 Advisors/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Ellington Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2004/11/ellington-management-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="Ellington Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Ellington Management /a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Oxford Funding Corporation | Hedge Fund Tracking Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/oxford-funding-corporation-hedge-fund.html" title="Oxford Funding Corporation | Hedge Fund Tracking Notes"Oxford Funding Corporation/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Centaurus Energy | John Arnold | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/centaurus-energy-john-arnold-hedge-fund.html" title="Centaurus Energy | John Arnold | Hedge Fund Notes"Centaurus Energy/a/li/ulbr /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Manager Updates | Tracker Profiles/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Manager, Hedge Fund Manager News, Hedge Fund Manager Bios, Hedge Fund Tracking, Hedge Fund Tracking Articles, Articles on Hedge Fund Managers, hedge fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=FoUYo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=FoUYo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=8XlCO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=8XlCO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=N9POo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=N9POo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/478895530" height="1" width="1"/

Creating a Hedge Fund | Talent Influx

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:50:44 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bCreating a Hedge Fund/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"New Talent Deciding to Create a Hedge Fund/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/STmFnO8veLI/AAAAAAAACko/Vr4peB-V9oc/s1600-h/Creating-a-Hedge-Fund.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/STmFnO8veLI/AAAAAAAACko/Vr4peB-V9oc/s200/Creating-a-Hedge-Fund.jpg" alt="Creating a Hedge Fund" title="Creating a Hedge Fund" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276395347515504818" border="0" //aHere is a short article about a KPMG professional who believes next year will bring out many new talented hedge fund managers. I agree. I had lunch yesterday with a third party marketer and prime brokerage group and everyone in the industry believes that Q2 and Q3 of 2009 will be huge. Nobody claims to know where the bottom of the financial crisis will be but many groups are ignoring the negative headlines and looking forward to this next period of growth, now is the time to lay the foundation or groundwork for that growth.br /br /Here is an exceprt from the article mentioned above:br /br /Next year will see the strong return of value investing, a shake-out in the hedge funds industry that will also see a welcome influx of new talent, changes to prime brokerage relationships and probably more intrusive regulation, according to KPMG's European head of investment management Tom Brown.br /br /'We are already starting to see the more forward-thinking investors focusing their attention and capital on finding undervalued assets and snapping them up for rock bottom prices,' Brown says. 'This value investing will continue into 2009 and some organisations will make sound returns as a result.'br /br /He expects many hedge funds to close, but also predicts that the turmoil throughout the financial services industry will produce an injection of new talent into the industry from traders with innovative ideas and fresh perspectives. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hedgeweek.com/articles/detail.jsp?content_id=278855"source/abr /br /Read more about creating a hedge fund within our a description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a area.br /h4Related to Creating a Hedge Fund | Talent Influx/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Creating a Hedge Fund, Create a Hedge Fund, How to Create a Hedge Fund, How can I create a hedge fund? Start a hedge fund corporation, start a hedge funds business, hedge fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=qiLmo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=qiLmo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=B0R5O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=B0R5O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=6ljko"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=6ljko" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/477750000" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Funds Shutting Down | Managers Closing Door

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:42:00 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Funds Shutting Down/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Funds Shutting Down | Video Interviewbr //span/b/h2I believe this guest speaker here is flat out wrong and is exaggerating what is happening to hedge funds right now, but I could be wrong. Here is an interesting video on how this manager believes that half of all hedge funds will close their doors over the next year.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m6W_MnkUC64amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m6W_MnkUC64amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to Hedge Funds Shutting Down | Managers Closing Door/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Hedge Funds Shutting Down, Hedge Funds Shut Down, Hedge Funds Closing Down, Hedge Fund Failures, Which hedge funds have shut down, how many hedge funds will shut downdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=TKr0o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=TKr0o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=tp7uO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=tp7uO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=7NQTo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=7NQTo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/478100167" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Asset Selling Loss of Leverage

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:30:01 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Asset Selling/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Asset Selling amp; Loss of Leverage/span/b/h2Here is a short video on hedge fund redemptions, performance and trends. It discusses the recession of 2008, how it is affecting hedge funds and how many new hedge funds are being setup to take advantage of current distressed asset levels. This is a great video on hedge funds because it moves past much of the depressing news titles and provides a good context review of the industry.br /br /div align="center"object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPvzE9QQpJ4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPvzE9QQpJ4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Asset Selling amp; Loss of Leverage/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Asset Selling, Hedge Funds Selling Assets, Hedge Funds Selling, Hedge Fund Loss of Leverage, Hedge Fund Leverage, Leverage for Hedge Fund Managersdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=4sEDo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=4sEDo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=cb6uO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=cb6uO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Iv5ho"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Iv5ho" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/478100168" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Tracker Note Updates | Managers

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:16:17 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Tracker Updatesbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Tracker Notes | Updatesbr //span/b/h2Our team has recently updated the Hedge Fund Tracker Notes on these hedge funds:br /ullia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Arcanum Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/arcanum-capital-management-hedge-fund.html" title="Arcanum Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Arcanum Capital Management /a/lilia alt="Fortis Investments Hedge Fund" title="Fortis Investments Hedge Fund" description="A short profile on Fortis Investments Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/fortis-investments-hedge-fund.html"Fortis Investments Hedge Fund/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Ramius Capital Group LLC | Management Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/ramius-capital-group-llc-management.html" title="Ramius Capital Group LLC | Management Hedge Fund Notes"Ramius Capital Group LLC/a/lilia alt="RAB Capital Management Hedge Fund" title="RAB Capital Plc" description="Hedge Fund Manager RAB Capital Plc" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/rab-capital-plc.html"RAB Capital Plc/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Bridgewater Capital | Ray Dalio | Hedge Fund Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/bridgewater-capital-ray-dalio-hedge.html" title="Bridgewater Capital | Ray Dalio | Hedge Fund Notes"Bridgewater Capital/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Veritas Asset Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/veritas-asset-management-hedge-fund.html" title="Veritas Asset Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Veritas Asset Management/a/li/ulRead through profiles on over 1,000 hedge fund managers within our a alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a.span style="font-weight: bold;"br /br //spanspan style="font-size:78%;"Tags: Hedge Fund managers, hedge fund, hedge funds, investment managers, investments, investment, stock market, stock markets, hedge fund investments, hedge fund bios/spandiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=UaWxo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=UaWxo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=mJZDO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=mJZDO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=pYNCo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=pYNCo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/477881948" height="1" width="1"/

Top 3 Prime Brokerage Trends

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:15:06 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Trendsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Prime Brokerage Trends/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aOver the last two years the mainstream media’s and general public’s interest in prime brokerage has rapidly grown. This is due to a number of factors including the struggle and failure many investment banks offering prime brokerage services including a alt="Lehman Prime Broker" href="http://primebrokerageguide.com/2008/05/lehman-prime-broker.html" title="Lehman Prime Broker"Lehman Brothers/a, mergers within the industry and widespread failures and redemption notices of hedge funds themselves.br /br /The top three trends affecting the prime brokerage industry right now are multi-prime brokerage relationships, limiting capital introduction services, and prime brokers acting as business partners to hedge fund managers.br /br /Multi-prime brokerage relationships used to be used by $5B+ a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-funds.html"hedge funds/a whose large institutional clients demanded the practice as a risk management technique. In the past this was almost though of as unnecessary as no large investment banks offering prime services had collapsed. It was seen in the same light as a major economic superpower defaulting on their own investment notes. This year, in 2008 everything has changed, Lehman failed and many investment banks have struggled or sold off their prime brokerage services to other firms. This has lead to widespread migrations between prime brokerage service providers and a trend towards managing multi-a href="http://primebrokerageguide.com/"prime brokerage/a relationships for funds with over $500M in assets or even lower. Some firms as small as $5M are choosing to work with more than one prime brokerage firm from the very start as a few firms have reported shutting down due to assets being locked up within Lehman Brothers when they collapsed earlier this year.br /br /Another shift in the industry has been felt within the area of capital introduction services. Anyone offering these services lately has faced increased challenges of investors sitting on cash, poor market and overall industry performance along with increasingly frequent reports of hedge fund fraud. Prime brokerage firms are no effected by this, especially since they often take on and attempt to service more clients than most independent a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"hedge fund/a marketers which are often referred to as third party marketers would. This had led to more selective capital introduction service offerings by prime brokerage firms and more frequent partnerships between prime brokerage firms and third party marketers in the industry.br /br /The third major trend affecting the prime brokerage business is that more firms in the space are positioning themselves as business partners. This is due to the commoditized nature of the industry and high level of competition for new business. Prime brokerage firms are now publishing white papers, offering business plan and marketing plan startup tools and holding workshops and networking events to help hedge fund managers connect with additional business partners and a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Investors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/01/hedge-fund-investors.html" title="Hedge Fund Investors"investors/a.br /h4Related to Top 3 Prime Brokerage Trends:/h4ullia title="Hedge Fund Careers" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-career.html" description="Hedge Fund Careers" alt="Hedge Fund Careers"span style="font-size:100%;"/span/aa title="" style="font-family: arial;" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-prime-broker.html" description="Hedge fund prime broker, prime broker services for hedge funds, hedge funds prime broker, hedge fund prime brokers, prime brokerage hedge funds, fund prime brokerage, hedge fund prime broker services, prime broker, prime brokers" alt="prime brokers, prime brokerage"Hedge Fund Prime Brokers/a/lilia title="hedge fund associations" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-associations.html" description="hedge fund associations" alt="hedge fund associations"span style="font-size:100%;"/span/aa title="Prime Brokerage Services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/prime-brokerage-services.html" description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="Prime Brokerage Services"span style="font-size:100%;"/span/aa title="Prime Brokerage Services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/prime-brokerage-services.html" description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="Prime Brokerage Services"Prime Brokerage Services/aa title="hedge fund associations" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-associations.html" description="hedge fund associations" alt="hedge fund associations"/a /lilia description="Prime Brokerage, Prime Brokerage Services, Prime Brokerage Survey, FX prime brokerage, Currency Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Prime Brokerage" alt="Prime Brokerage" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/prime-brokerage.html" title="Prime Brokerage"Prime Brokerage/a/lilia title="Hedge Fund Work" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/hedge-fund-work.html" description="Hedge Fund Work, Hedge Fund Employers, Hedge Fund Employers, Work at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds Work" alt="Hedge Fund Work, Work at a hedge fund"Hedge Fund Work /a/lilia title="hedge fund recruiters" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-recruiters-recruitment.html" description="hedge fund recruiters" alt="hedge fund recruiters"Hedge Fund Recruiters /a/li/ulTags: Prime Brokerage News, Prime Brokerage Trends, Prime Broker Trends, Prime Broker News, Prime Broker Changes, Changes to Prime Brokerage Firms, Prime Brokerage, prime brokerdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=6jNPo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=6jNPo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=mV6zO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=mV6zO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=vUodo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=vUodo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/477763451" height="1" width="1"/

What To Know About Hedge Funds | Short Video

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:33:28 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bVideo on Hedge Funds/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"What to Know About Hedge Funds/span/b/h2Here is a short video on hedge funds, the attention they are getting in the media and on short selling. What is nice about this movie is that in plain English it explains why most of what is going on is not new and how short selling is not evil. To view this video via my daily hedge fund newsletter please click a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-to-know-about-hedge-funds-short.html"here/a, otherwise please see below.br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cv5SQZjIZOgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cv5SQZjIZOgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /View over 50 additional a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a. h4Related to What To Know About Hedge Funds | Short Video/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: What to Know About Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Basics, A Short History of Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund, hedge funds, stock market, stock markets, investment, investments, real estatediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=wgjYo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=wgjYo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=yqEIO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=yqEIO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=2lbho"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=2lbho" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/475345999" height="1" width="1"/

Investor Questions for Hedge Funds | Video

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:32:32 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bVideo - Investor Questionsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Video | Investor Questions for Hedge Funds/span/b/h2Great video here addressing many issues I believe hedge fund investors would like to have answered right now. It discusses distressed assets, hedge fund redemptions and how the current market is changing the hedge fund industry and how investors view hedge funds. Within this post there is a discussion about the opportunity within the areas of distressed assets, short sellers and CTA funds. If you are viewing this article via our daily hedge fund newsletter please click a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/12/investor-questions-for-hedge-funds.html"here/a to watch the video now, otherwise please see below.br /br /object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJmz-GD4C8Qamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJmz-GD4C8Qamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"/embed/objectbr /br /View over 50 additional a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/abr /h4Related to Investor Questions for Hedge Funds | Videobr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: Investor Questions, Investor Questions for Hedge Funds, Investment Questions on Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Investor, Hedge Fund Investors, Investment Questions, investmentdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=tjv8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=tjv8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ngzYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ngzYO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=avVOo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=avVOo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/475345998" height="1" width="1"/

Wealth Management Marketing Family Office Growth

Richard C. Wilson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:59:54 +0000

h1div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Wealth Management Marketers/span/div/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold;"span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"Demand for Family Office Sales Professionals/spanbr //span/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shareselect.com.au/images/green1.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 195px;" src="http://www.shareselect.com.au/images/green1.jpg" alt="Wealth Management Marketing amp; Family Office Growth" title="Wealth Management Marketing amp; Family Office Growth" border="0" //aBelow is an article on a href="http://familyofficesgroup.com/"family offices/a and how they may be well positioned to pick up the pieces and grow their market share after this financial crisis has passed. I agree with the comment below that part of the reason that ultra high net worth individuals sometimes don't use family offices is because they don't know they exist or have never sat down with someone to discuss why it may make sense to work with one.br /br /I believe this is a sign of pent up demand for expert family office marketers. If you can work within the industry for 7 years and build your marketing expertise you are worth your weight in Gold to a medium to large sized family office group which is looking to further expand their services.br /br /Here is an excerpt from the article mentioned above:br /br /blockquoteWhen the dust settles from the financial crisis, multi-family offices are likely to be among the winners in Europe’s wealth industry.br /br /These businesses, which tend to advise ultra-wealthy families, expect to benefit from the damage wrought to the reputations of investment banks.br /br /Geneva-based Global Wealth Management manages €2bn ($2.6bn) for about 30 European and Middle Eastern families. Peter Sartogo, its managing partner, says multi-family offices have until now failed to promote themselves effectively in Europe.br /br /“One of the reasons multi-family offices haven’t grown as rapidly as might have been expected is that clients simply don’t know they exist. At the same time, there is no winning formula for a multi-family office – everyone does it differently.”br /br /Sartogo joined GWM three years ago after 15 years as an investment banker: “I think of it as my military service,” he laughs. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wealth-bulletin.com/wealth-business/advisers/rss/content/3352668489/"source/abr //blockquoteh4Related to Marketing for Wealth Management Firms amp; Family Offices/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Family Offices" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/family-office.html" title="Family Offices"Family Offices/a/lilia title="family office wealth management; family offices, family office services, family offices in New York and Boston" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/family-office-wealth-management.html" alt="family office wealth management"Family Office Wealth Management/a/lilia title="Family Office Hedge Fund: multifamily office hedge funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/family-office-hedge-fund.html" alt="family office hedge fund consultant"Family Office Hedge Fund/a/lilia title="High Net Worth Investors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/high-net-worth-investors.html" description="High Net Worth Investors" alt="High Net Worth Investors"High Net Worth Investors/a/lilia alt="Single Family Office" title="Single Family Office" description="Single Family Office" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/single-family-office.html"Single Family Office/a/lilia title="Family Office Wealth Management, multifamily wealth management, multi-family offices, family office trends" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-are-family-offices-multi-family.html" alt="family office wealth management"What Are Family Offices?/a/lilia title="Using Hedge Funds In Financial Planning" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/11/using-hedge-funds-in-financial-planning.html" alt="Hedge Funds wealth management"Using Hedge Funds in Financial Planning/a/lilia href="http://www.citywealthmag.com/Citywealth_SandAire_Edition_67.pdf"Family Office Management Interview/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"/span/aa alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Family Offices | Protecting the Wealth of the Super Rich" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/family-offices-protecting-wealth-of.html" title="Family Offices | Protecting the Wealth of the Super Rich"Family Offices | Protecting the Wealth of the Super Rich/a/li/ulTags: Wealth Management, Financial, Finance, Family Offices, Wealth Managers, Wealth Management Marketing, RIA Marketing, Marketing and Sales for Wealth Management Firmsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Ymn6o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Ymn6o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=9osFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=9osFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=NrOwo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=NrOwo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/475326821" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Statistics | Video Interview on Closures Redemptions

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:57:06 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Statistics/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Video Interview on Closures amp; Redemptions/span/b/h2Here is a short interview with a Yale professor who is an expert on hedge funds. He estimates that the industry will shrink by another 25% next year due to poor markets, volatility and low liquidity across many asset classes. He also discusses hedge fund redemption rates and how many institutions need to raise cash and many have lost some faith in hedge funds. This means that many hedge funds have had to restrict the securities which they own so they can meet redemption requests. The reporter also discusses how many hedge funds have been slashing fees to attract more investors. br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2p1GSXY3uk8amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2p1GSXY3uk8amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /br /h4View over 50 additional videos here:span style="font-weight: bold;" /spana href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Hedge Fund Videos/a/h4h4Related to Hedge Fund Statistics | Video Interview on Closures amp; Redemptions/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Statistics, Hedge Fund Redemption, Hedge Fund Closures, Hedge Funds Closing, Hedge Funds Shutting Down, Hedge Fund, hedge funds, stock market, investments, financediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=CsNeo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=CsNeo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=FuzNO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=FuzNO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=OHSXo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=OHSXo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/474997364" height="1" width="1"/

Greenwich Financial Services Law Suit Video

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:05:02 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bGreenwich Financial Services/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Greenwich Financial Services | Hedge Fund Notes/span/b/h2br /br /div align="center"object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWZhXyPguYEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWZhXyPguYEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/divbr /br /h4Related to Greenwich Financial Services Law Suit Video/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/li/ulTags: Greenwich Financial Services Law Suit Video, Greenwich Financial Services Law Suit, Greenwich Financial Services, Greenwich Financial Hedge Fund, Greenwich Financial Fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=AJyPo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=AJyPo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ITu7O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ITu7O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=UiwSo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=UiwSo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/474942229" height="1" width="1"/

Wealth Management Mergers Acquisitions

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:23:12 +0000

div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"h1Wealth Management Mergers/h1h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"Family offices amp; Wealth Management Mergers/h2/divbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ns1.siteground169.com/%7Ehealthan/healthandfuture/images/stories/Images/invest.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 227px;" src="http://ns1.siteground169.com/%7Ehealthan/healthandfuture/images/stories/Images/invest.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aBelow is a short piece on a recent family office related merger. I believe these will be increasing in frequency as highly profitable leaders within this industry look to re-invest cash in smaller family offices which could use best practices processes, centralized due diligence and manager selection services of the larger family offices. Here is the article excerpt:br /br /blockquoteMulti-family office Stonehage Group has announced the merger of TriAlpha, its asset management arm, with ACP Partners to create a combined business owned 50:50 by the two groups that will be known initially as ACP TriAlpha and has some USD2.5bn in assets under management.br /br /Founded in 1997, TriAlpha is an asset management house with an absolute return bias that manages a range of multi-manager hedge funds, multi-asset class funds and direct securities products for clients including institutions and high net worth families.br /br /London-based ACP was founded in 2001 by Joseph Sassoon, former founder and head of Goldman Sachs' European private wealth management business, and Alok Oberoi, who was head of Goldman's Asian private wealth management business and subsequently chief operating officer of global private wealth management in New York. Brett Lankester, the former head of private wealth management for Goldman in the UK, joined ACP in 2007. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hedgeweek.com/articles/detail.jsp?content_id=278735"source/a/blockquoteh4Related to Wealth Management Mergers amp; Acquisitions/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html"Hedge Fund Terminology/abr //lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Wealth Management, wealth management mergers, wealth manager mergers, wealth management mergers and acquisitions, RIA wealth management, markets, stocks, stock marketdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=9UwOo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=9UwOo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ubMAO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ubMAO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Oweho"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Oweho" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/474291698" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Industry Contacts | Directory of Business Partners

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:21:21 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Contacts/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Industry Contacts | A Directorybr //span/b/h2br /a alt="Hedge Fund Contacts, Hedge Fund Industry Contacts" title="Hedge Fund Contacts" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-contacts.html"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 102px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SKBbMRAXA0I/AAAAAAAABcw/4bOD8poe7WA/s200/Hedge-Fund-Contacts.jpg" alt="Hedge Fund Contacts, Hedge Fund Industry Contacts" title="Hedge Fund Contacts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233283033285985090" border="0" //aThe list below was put together from HedgeFundBlogger.com's directory of a description="Hedge Fund Services, Hedge Funds Services, Hedge Fund Service, Hedge Fund Service Provider, Hedge Fund Services" alt="Hedge Fund Services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-services.html" title="Hedge Fund Services"hedge fund service providers/a. If you are a hedge fund startup or established a title="hedge fund managers, hedge fund manager" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-managers-pedigree.html" description="hedge fund managers, hedge fund manager" alt="hedge fund managers, hedge fund manager"hedge fund manager/a looking for additional industry contacts these individuals might be able to help you build your business.br /br /Disclaimer: These firms are listed below because they cater to the hedge fund industry and pay a small monthly fee to promote their businesses on HedgeFundBlogger.com. Please email us to have your firm added to this list:br /br /br /a style="font-weight: bold;" description="Hedge Fund Administrators, Hedge Fund Administrator, Hedge Fund Administration, Hedge Funds Administrators, Hedge Funds Administrators" alt="Hedge Fund Administrators" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-administrators.html" title="Hedge Fund Administrators"Hedge Fund Administrators/abr /ulliPolina Tsikman - BGT Fund Administration a href="mailto:PTsikman@BGTConsulting.com"PTsikman@BGTConsulting.com/a/liliNottingham Investment Administration a href="http://ncfunds.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"http://NCFunds.com/a/liliLearn more about these administrators by clicking a description="Hedge Fund Administrators, Hedge Fund Administrator, Hedge Fund Administration, Hedge Funds Administrators, Hedge Funds Administrators" alt="Hedge Fund Administrators" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-administrators.html" title="Hedge Fund Administrators"here/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" description="hedge fund auditors" alt="hedge fund auditors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-auditors.html" title="Hedge Fund Auditors"Hedge Fund Auditors/aulliMaurice Berkower - ACSB, a href="mailto:Maurice@acsbco.com"Maurice@acsbco.com/a/liliRon Niemaszyk ron.niemaszyk@jordanpatke.com/liliRobert Castrao rcastro@BDO.com/liliLearn more about these auditing firms by clicking a description="hedge fund auditors" alt="hedge fund auditors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-auditors.html" title="Hedge Fund Auditors"here/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="prime brokerage services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-prime-broker.html" title="Prime Brokerage Services"Prime Brokers/aulliLance Baraker - Saratoga Prime Services, span style="font-size:100%;"a href="mailto:LBaraker@Saratogaprime.com"LBaraker@Saratogaprime.com/a/span/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"Larry Goldsmith - Triad Securities, /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"/spana href="mailto:Press@TriadSecurities.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Press@TriadSecurities.com/a/liliDarren Day - Alaris Trading Partners, span style="font-size:100%;"a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:info@alaristrading.com" target="_blank"info@alaristrading.com/a/span/lilispan style="font-size:100%;"Learn more about these prime brokerage firms by clicking /spana description="Prime Brokerage Services" alt="prime brokerage services" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-prime-broker.html" title="Prime Brokerage Services"here/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-attorney-lawyers.html"Hedge Fund Attorneys and Law Firms/abr /ulliMilal Balik - Malik Law Group bilal.malik@maliklawgroup.com/liliBrent Gillett -Investment Law Group a href="mailto:BGillett@investmentlawgroup.com"BGillett@investmentlawgroup.com/a/liliLearn more about these two law firms by clicking a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-attorney-lawyers.html"here/a/li/ulbr /a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/investment-consultants.html"span style="font-weight: bold;"Investment Consultants/span/abr /ulliGary Mair - FundAdvisor, LLC spana href="mailto:gmair@hfundadvisor.com"gmair@hfundadvisor.com/a/span/lilispanLearn more about FundAdvisor's services by clicking /spana href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/investment-consultants.html"spanhere/span/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" description="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" alt="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/commercial-real-estate-brokers.html" title="Commercial Real Estate Brokers"Commercial Real Estate Brokers/aulliRobert Kluge - NAI Global, a href="mailto:rkluge@nainyc.com" target="_blank"RKluge@nainyc.com/a/liliLearn more about NAI Global by clicking a description="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" alt="Commercial Real Estate Brokers" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/commercial-real-estate-brokers.html" title="Commercial Real Estate Brokers"here/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" description="Investment Research, Investments Research, Independent Investment Research, Investment Research Firms, Investment Research Firm" alt="Investment Research" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/investment-research.html" title="Investment Research"Investment Research/ab /bulliJean McPhillips - The Merchant Forecast a href="mailto:JMcPhillips@m4cast.com"JMcPhillips@m4cast.com/a/liliSushant Gupta - SG Analytics a href="mail:sushant@sganalytics.com"span class="HcCDpe"span class="lDACoc"sushant@sganalytics.com/span/span/a/liliLearn more about The Merchant Forecast by clicking a description="Investment Research, Investments Research, Independent Investment Research, Investment Research Firms, Investment Research Firm" alt="Investment Research" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/investment-research.html" title="Investment Research"here/a/li/ulbr /a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-software.html"Hedge Fund Software Firms amp; Products/abr /ulliJaime Bean - 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If you would like your firm added to this list above and within our service provider directory please email us at a href="mailto:Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org"Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org/a.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Industry Contacts | Directory of Business Partners/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Industry Contacts, Contact Details Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Industry Professionals, Meet with Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Directory, Hedge Fund Service Provider Due Diligencediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=IUlLo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=IUlLo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=EmNiO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=EmNiO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=ZhkFo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=ZhkFo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/474291697" height="1" width="1"/

Questions About Hedge Funds | A Short Audio Clip

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:02:01 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bQuestions on Hedge Funds/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Questions About The Hedge Fund Industrybr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toastmasters.org/OtherImages/MemberQuestions.aspx"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 213px;" src="http://www.toastmasters.org/OtherImages/MemberQuestions.aspx" alt="" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) Many questions about hedge funds revolve around their definition, the scope of their investments and whether private corporations or real estate could groups could ever possibly access capital from hedge fund managers. Last night I found a short audio file which clearly explains what a hedge fund is.br /br /To listen to this audio file please click a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/popup.php?name=marketplace/morning_report/2008/12/03/marketplace_morning_report0550_20081203_64amp;starttime=00:04:22.0amp;endtime=00:07:06.6"here/a now.br /br /br /Below is a short excerpt from the beginning of this audio clip:br /br /blockquoteSteve Chiotakis: Reports this morning are that Raymius Capital will close four of its hedge funds worth more than a half-billion dollars. So let's talk about hedge funds. Or is that hedge hog? Seems like when everything's going south on any given trading day, hedge funds are partly to blame. Selling off stocks and all to meet those margin calls before the closing bell.br /br /But, "Steve" you ask. "What are hedge funds?" Time to whip out the Marketplace Decoder. Here's Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman.br /br /Mitchell Hartman: First, the textbook answer. A hedge fund is a private partnership that pools money from wealthy individuals, pension funds, corporations, and the like, and invests it to make a profit. Because the fund is private, it doesn't have to report how much it earns, or what it's holding, to financial regulators. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/12/03/decoder_hedge_funds/"source/abr //blockquoteh4Related to Questions About Hedge Funds | A Short Audio Clip/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Questions About Hedge Funds, Questions on Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds FAQ, Question on Hedge Funds, Question about Hedge Fund Managers, Hedge Fund Questions and Answersdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=M3bDo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=M3bDo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=E2UkO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=E2UkO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=oyLWo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=oyLWo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/474237360" height="1" width="1"/

Hedge Fund Formation | Tips on Forming a Hedge Fund

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:16:36 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Formation/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Forming a Hedge Fund | Tips/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ukgbpf.co.uk/images/close_the_deal1.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 221px;" src="http://www.ukgbpf.co.uk/images/close_the_deal1.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aI just came across a brief guide from HedgeWorld on hedge fund formation. This article caught my attention because within the short guide it lists out the documents that a hedge fund manager may need to create:br /ulliConfidential Offering Memorandum/liliLimited Partnership Agreement/liliOffering Memorandum Instructions/liliSubscription Agreements/liliLimited Partner's Suitability Letters/liliLimited Partner's Signature Pages/liliLegal and Regulatory Handbook/liliAccounting and Tax Handbook/liliSEC Regulation D Code (US related)/liliInstructions and Ongoing Responsibilities/liliAccounting Spreadsheets and Templates/liliFile SEC, CFTC, NFA and State Forms (US related)/liliQuarter and Year End Duties/liliFund Account Ledger/liliGeneral Fund Ledger/liliGeneral Partner Corporate Books and Recordsbr //li/ula rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hedgeworld.com/education/index.cgi?page=starting_HF"source/abr /br /To read additional articles within our a description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a area please click a description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"here/a.br /h4Related to Hedge Fund Formation | Tips on Forming a Hedge Fundbr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/lilia alt="Hedge Funds and Investment Securities" managers="" securities="" and="" investment="" fund="" description="" holding="" title="Investment Securities Holdings" of="" hedge="" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/investment-securities-and-holdings-of.html"Hedge Fund Holdings amp; Securities Analysis/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Formation, Forming a Hedge Fund, Form a Fund, Form a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Formation Legal Fees, Form an offshore hedge fund, forming a US hedge fund, form or start a funddiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=BojKo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=BojKo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=eqdYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=eqdYO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=DJNmo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=DJNmo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/472681769" height="1" width="1"/

Bank Nationalization Day

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:04:45 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBank Nationalization/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bank Nationalization Day/span/b/h2a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_l74vGpJI/AAAAAAAAAf4/J6EgOxMC024/s1600-h/RBS-DundasHouse.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_l74vGpJI/AAAAAAAAAf4/J6EgOxMC024/s320/RBS-DundasHouse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273686505679135890" border="0" //a Old HQ pictured. Following failure of shareholders to buy more than 0.24% (only £36m for 56m shares) of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group's £20bn share issue, RBS (1) (including Citizens Bank, USA, and NatWest Bank, England) today became the third to be formally nationalised (nearly 58%). The small take-up of the issue by existing shareholders had been expected as the offer price of 65.5p was 10p higher than the price at which the shares were trading, so those who did buy on paper lost £5m doing so. The share issue by RBS was part of the government's plan to recapitalise banks. The government will pay £15bn for the majority stake in the bank plus £5bn of preference shares in the bank. Taxpayers too have an immediate paper loss of £2.4bn based on Thursday's closing share price. The bank's Chief Executive Stephen Hester said, "emWe regret that existing shareholders did not take up their pre-emptive rights but understand that market sentiment toward the banking sector made this uneconomic in the short term/em." That is the least of it. What is remarkable is that there is not more confidence in a regulated, government backed, major public company whose accounts are as transparent as the best standards demand, and whose market price is far below 'book value'? What has happened to investing in fundamentals for slightly longer than the immediate short term? Hester says,"emThere remain substantial uncertainties and challenges outside our control but for our part the job is underway/em." There are always uncertainties, but they should not any longer be called 'substantial' when a bank is covered with guarantees and writedowns and paperf losses are far ahead of any actual losses yet experienced in the underlying assets. The bank now needs its major shareholder's approval for executive pay and dividend, and has to agree to return to "normal" lending levels and more sensitive customer relations practices. Last week it said it is guaranteeing overdraft rates amp; contracts for business customers for a year at least. The UK government's shares of banks are held by a company called emUK Financial Investments Ltd/em, which is to emmaximise value for taxpayers and prevent politicians making business decisions about banks/em something that the Opposition Conservatives are keen to monitor to ensure this is true. a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_mKgH5_KI/AAAAAAAAAgA/cYbDGrWqcj0/s1600-h/gogarburnHQ.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 175px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_mKgH5_KI/AAAAAAAAAgA/cYbDGrWqcj0/s320/gogarburnHQ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273686756770315426" border="0" //aThe new RBS HQ (pictured) opened just as RBS-led consortium's deal to buy ABN-AMRO 'successully' closed, a deal paying 71bn euros ($91bn; £61bn) for the Dutch bank, that was the last great deal for a sold bank's shareholders, which lost RBS its creditworthiness, and also contributed to Fortis Bank's collapse after it agreed to buy ABN-AMRO's Benelux banks, while the third partner, Banco Santander, which got ABN-AMRO's Brazilian bank remained strongly priced (thanks to severe risk contols by Spain's Central Bank) and next bought Alliance amp; Leicester (Aamp;L) cheap, albeit that Santander now too has to make a rights issue and has cold-shouldered its many UK shareholders in an over-hasty process. Mortgage exposure proved to be the made risk to share value for UK banks as panic spread from the USA, however, even though the UK market has been a full 2 years or more behind the USA in mortgage defaults (currently 2% in UK and over 9% in USA), confidence fell mainly because of Northern Rock's bank run - a special calamity for all UK banks.a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_n07B_NoI/AAAAAAAAAgI/qUYll2b0Lg8/s1600-h/UK_Mortgage_banks_jan08_image004.gif"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_n07B_NoI/AAAAAAAAAgI/qUYll2b0Lg8/s320/UK_Mortgage_banks_jan08_image004.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273688585059382914" border="0" //a Previously nationalised UK banks are Northern Rock and Bradford amp; Bingley. I took my secretary to the House of Commons Treasury Committee: Nationalised Banks meeting on the 18th to find out how Government is managing its banks? Others to follow into Nationalisation soon include Halifax Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB, or possibly the combined Lloyds Bank Group, even though HboS Directors warn that Nationalisation is a ‘risk’ strenuously to be avoided (even if it means selling HBoS for a fraction of its book value by voting for the takeover by Lloyds TSB). The new combined Lloyds Bank Group could still be 43% Government-owned. To avoid this 'calamity', which would, of course, restrict the bankers’ bonus pay, though their first anxiety is to restore dividend payments to the much-abused shareholders. Hence, why Lloyds is in talks with sovereign wealth funds and UK insurance groups about selling stakes in a merged Lloyds-HBoS group, with a preliminary deal expected by January (subject to HboS shareholders voting for the takeover on 12 December). Lloyds want cash to redeem £4 bn of the ‘restrictive’ government-owned preference shares in Lloyds and HBOS at the earliest opportunity (as soon as HboS shares are delisted). But, what is there to fear about a commanding Government stake when this would guarantee the solvency of the bank and when major global banks such as Citigroup are finding that Government ownership is highly profitable? Reading from my secretary’s typed notes, from HoC Treasury Committee questioning of NR and Bamp;B banks, what do I find?br /br /1. HM Government (HM Treasury) are in daily contact by telephone with NR and Bamp;B, but do not steer the banks' commercial decisions.br /2. They face a potential conundrum, which is that while they have ‘frameworks’ in place whereby they must reduce the size of their balance sheets so as to be in better shape return to private ownership as soon as practical, Government also wants banks to maintain their lending levels, except this latter requirement is not being overtly applied to NR and Bamp;B. a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_pRWQkCLI/AAAAAAAAAgY/mCmDzT9BEpk/s1600-h/bradford-bingley-9-7-08.gif"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_pRWQkCLI/AAAAAAAAAgY/mCmDzT9BEpk/s320/bradford-bingley-9-7-08.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273690172916238514" border="0" //a3. Bamp;B has a £40bn mortgage loanbook of which £24bn is buy-to-let (B2L) mortgages (20% of UK total) and £8bn is self-certified mortgages (mainly for the self-employed). Government provides a £14bn guarantee. Bamp;B’s current defaults are 1.8% but 3% among B2L. Moody’s stress tested the loanbook and estimate through-the-cycle loss will be 3% in total or £1.3bn against £1.7bn capital reserve (76% capital wipeout). The Execs did not repeat anything about weakness in the bank’s accounting system that had been originally blamed for failure because the board simply did not know how bad its position was?br /br /4. The HoC Treasury Cmte was anxious to know if bonus culture (where execs get many times the % ratio to salary in bonus compared to all staff) was the cause of excessive book-building such as contracting to buy £6.5bn of buy-to-let mortgages from GMAC (owned by General Motors)? Bamp;B execs explained half of these were UK mortgages and seemed to fit with the bank’s speciality. 90% of all its book came to it via intermediaries anyway (and 2.5% fees were added into the mortgage loans while the GMAC arrears are just over 3% and the long term contract proved embarrassingly inflexible as credit conditions changed).a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_o_hUj8AI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/yYrsYKMe2C4/s1600-h/NRock.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_o_hUj8AI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/yYrsYKMe2C4/s320/NRock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273689866648154114" border="0" //a 5. NR was quizzed about bonuses too at 5 times ratio to salary as all staff (which by the way are subject to Government Approval), and about why its mortgage foreclosures seemed so much larger than the industry average. The execs countered that bonuses are linked to progress in redeeming the Government’s equity, while foreclosures only produce 1% of that revenue and its 4,200 stock of homes for sale were gathered over 18 months, not 1 year, hence it is not so draconian as the media speculated. (NR’s deposits business was sold to Abbey- Santander)br /br /6. NR has a ‘Together’ mortgage book for high loan to value borrowers (typically 115% of home purchase price, higher now that house prices have fallen) but these only show a 3.1% default against a general arrears of 1.87% when the industry is 1.33%. Only 10% of arrears result in repossessions and one third of these are voluntary.br /br /7. NR is designing MORTGAGE RESCUE PRODUCTS that will build on payment holidays and interest deductions 9currently negotiated case by case depending on individual circumstances). At the same time NR is writing little new business (and not trying to out-compete the market on price) and encouraging borrowers to re-mortgage elsewhere, except elsewhere doesn’t want to do so for any loan-to-value ratio of more than 80% (at present depressed and falling house prices), hence Government will probably continue to own the bank for about 3 years more.br /br /8. The Committee asked about the cost of Government support. Bamp;B said it was at full commercial rates (measured across a number of funding and guarantee types). NR said it was charged to them at above commercial market rates, something that may be currently reviewes. This is important to the European Commission's enquiry to ensure that Government support does not distort competition unfairly - report not expected until the Spring of next year.br /br /9. A risk consultants report into NR found that risk management was not independent of business operations, risk culture not imbedded, and need for induction training; all matters being fixed by a new Risk Head’s new structure, and new risk policies manual. The Treasury Cmte Chairman ended the meeting with reference to NR’s “shambolic organisation” and he was not being humorous about that. a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_q9sAPWVI/AAAAAAAAAgg/j38SiPCrRQs/s1600-h/HOC+Treasury+Cmte"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_q9sAPWVI/AAAAAAAAAgg/j38SiPCrRQs/s320/HOC+Treasury+Cmte" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273692034179225938" border="0" //a(1) Note: The Royal Bank of Scotland was founded with Government support in 1728 to create a rival to the Bank of Scotland that was suspected of being Jacobite (anti-Hanoverian, supporter of the Stuarts). In 1728, the Royal Bank of Scotland became the first bank in the world to offer an overdraft facility when merchant William Hogg was allowed to take out £1000 unsecured (£65,000 today) more than he had in his account! a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_lekR-wVI/AAAAAAAAAfw/CwCnzsmRmwM/s1600-h/I+shall+withdraw+my+overdraft.png"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tvshDVnXSLc/SS_lekR-wVI/AAAAAAAAAfw/CwCnzsmRmwM/s320/I+shall+withdraw+my+overdraft.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273686001972068690" border="0" //a "emI warn you, Sir! The discourtesy of this bank is beyond all limits. One word more and I — I withdraw my overdraft!"/embr /br /The Committee members were all knowledgeable and asking intelligent questions intelligently, just as banking professionals might do if they have that much common sense about banking. I conclude that oversight by Government seems neither draconian (unless bankers are most anxious about their bonus levels) nor is it a shadow management, but more like an anxious major shareholder that is keen to sell out when the balance sheet is made safe and prospects are stable or positively improving. Why should Lloyds, HboS or Barclays (facing shareholder anger over the bank’s choice of expensive sovereign fund investors instead of Government backing) believe ‘nationalization’, which NR and Bamp;B execs always describe as ‘temporary’, is such a bad risk to be avoided even at substantially higher cost? Are the objections ideological, or driven by shareholders anxious to restart cash dividends, or by bankers afraid for their bonuses, or are they afraid of Government making them behave more sensitively and empathetically to customers? Or maybe the banks worry too that they might be restrained from making major foreign investments such as buying foreign banks or such as RBS’s recent participation in a gigantic $35bn loan to support Ontario Teachers Pension fund buyout of Telcom Company BCI for 52bn, that looks like failing to proceed at the last minute?!br /br /Contributed by a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bankingeconomics.blogspot.com/"Robert Mcdowell/abr /h4Related to Bank Nationalization Daybr //h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide/a/lilia alt="Geographical Guide to the Hedge Fund Industry, International Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="Learn About Hedge Funds in over 200 Geographical Regions"Geographical Guides/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Bank Nationalization, Bank Nationalisation, Nationalization of Banks, What banks were take over by the government, government owned banks, bank owned by the governmentdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=y7bBo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=y7bBo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=i32MO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=i32MO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=aGdio"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=aGdio" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/472665587" height="1" width="1"/

Highbridge Capital Management Profile Update

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:56:55 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHighbridge Capitalbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"HighBridge Capital Management Notes/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimageamp;iid=i3Lj_zBK90DE"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 139px;" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimageamp;iid=i3Lj_zBK90DE" alt="" border="0" //aJust a quick note to let you know that Highbridge Capital Management's Hedge Fund Tracker Tool has been updated.br /br /View this updated manager profile here: a alt="Highbridge Capital Management LLC" title="Highbridge Capital Management LLC" description="Highbridge Capital Corp Hedge Fund Group in New York City, NY" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/highbridge-capital-management-llc-corp.html"Highbridge Capital Management LLC/abr /br /h4Related to Highbridge Capital Management Profile Update/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulbr /Tags: Highbridge Capital, High Bridge Capital, highbridge capital management, High Bridge Capital Management, highbridge capital hedge fund, high bridge hedge fund, hedge funds by Highbridgediv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=Av3Ko"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=Av3Ko" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=nRYYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=nRYYO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=MObuo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=MObuo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/472651746" height="1" width="1"/

The Truth About Hede Funds | A Matter of Time

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:07:57 +0000

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Alternative Hedge Mutual Funds | A Short List

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:55:21 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Mutual Funds/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Alternative Mutual Funds| A Short List/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/STPenVLivII/AAAAAAAACjQ/ZZavfNzbwA8/s1600-h/Hedge-Alternative-Mutual-Funds.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/STPenVLivII/AAAAAAAACjQ/ZZavfNzbwA8/s200/Hedge-Alternative-Mutual-Funds.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274804355862805634" border="0" //aNot everyone has the ability to invest in hedge funds but almost anyone can emulate some of their strategies within their own portfolios or invest in ETFs or mutual funds which to a degree replicate some a description="hedge fund strategy" alt="hedge fund strategy, hedge funds strategy" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-strategy.html" title="Read About Over 20 Hedge Fund Investment Strategies"hedge fund investment strategies/a. br /br /A few months ago I wrote an article on alternative mutual fund products which offer a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com"hedge fund/a related investment strategies. Through this process my research assistant helped me compile a list of alternative mutual funds which may be seen below:br /ulliGateway Fund (GATEX)/liliDiamond Hill Focus Long-Short (DIAMX)/liliHussman Strategic Growth (HSGFX)/liliLegg Mason Opportunity fund/lilithe Boston Partners Long/Short fund/liliNakoma Absolute Return Fund (NARFX) /liliNew Century Alternative Strategies Fund (NCHPX) /liliAlpha Hedged Strategies Fund (ALPHX) /liliBeta Hedged Strategies Fund (BETAX)/liliTFS Market Neutral Fund (TFSMX)/liliAllianz NACM Pacific Rim A (PPRAX)/liliCaldwell amp; Orkin Mkt Opportunit (COAGX)/liliDiamond Hill Long-Short Fd Cl A (DIAMX)/liliFederated Market Opportunity A (FMAAX)/liliFidelity Estate High Income Fd/liliForester Value Fund (FVALX)/liliFranklin Templeton Hard Curr Adv (ICHHX)/liliGabelli ABC Fund (GABCX)/liliING PIMCO Total Return S (IPTSX)/liliJames Advantage Market Neutral A (JAMNX)/liliJPMorgan Multi-Cap Mrkt Netral A (OGNAX)/liliLaudus Rosenberg US LgMdCp L/S Inv (RMNIX)/liliLaudus Rosenberg Value Lg/Shrt Inst (BMNIX)/liliNations Mort amp; Asset Backed Port (NMTGX)/liliPinnacle Value Fund (PVFIX)/liliRobeco Boston Ptrs Lg/Sh Equit Inv (BPLEX)/liliSelect Environmental (FSLEX)/li/ulThis is not a recommendation and this list is not complete or guaranteed to be accurate, simply our team sharing research with those who are interested in completing research on a few hedge fund related mutual fund offerings.br /h4Related to Alternative Hedge Mutual Funds | A Short List/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: alternative mutual funds, hedge fund mutual funds, hedge mutual funds, hedge mutual fund, hedge funds and mutual funds, hedge fund vs mutual fund, alternative energy mutual fund, mutual funddiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=EgvGo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=EgvGo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=kFpzO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=kFpzO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=kNM9o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=kNM9o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/471268932" height="1" width="1"/

Sparx Group Hedge Fund Update

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:44:47 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bSparx Group Ltd.br //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Sparx Group Hedge Fund Update/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.asianfn.com/speaker/web/SHUHEI_ABE.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 141px;" src="http://www.asianfn.com/speaker/web/SHUHEI_ABE.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aJust a quick note to let you know we have updated the Sparx Group profile notes within our Hedge Fund Tracker notes.br /br /View this updated profile here: a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Sparx Group Co. Ltd | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/sparx-group-co-ltd-hedge-fund-tracker.html" title="Sparx Group Co. Ltd | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes"Sparx Group Co. Ltd/a or visit our a alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a to read about over 1,000 other hedge funds.br /br /br /h4Related to Sparx Group Hedge Fund Update/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Sparx Group, Sparx Group Ltd. Sparx Group Co ltd, Sparx Group Hedge Funds, Sparx Group Funds, Hedge Fund Sparx Group, Sparx Group Japan London New York, fund of funddiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=UznLo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=UznLo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=1CsvO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=1CsvO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=WNb7o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=WNb7o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/471268933" height="1" width="1"/

Richard S. Fuld Jr. Lehman Brother Collapse | Victim or Culprit?

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:12:19 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bRichard Fuldbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Lehman Brother CEO Richard S. Fuld Jr./span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/17/timestopics/fuld-190.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 182px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/17/timestopics/fuld-190.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aNew York Magazine recently wrote up a very lengthy article on Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers who is blamed for driving the firm into the ground earlier this year. Here is a short excerpt from the article:br /blockquoteOn June 11, Richard S. Fuld Jr., CEO of Lehman Brothers, sat down to lunch with a half-dozen of Lehman’s senior investment bankers. Since the fall of Bear Stearns in March, Fuld had been struggling to keep “the mother ship,” as Fuld liked to call his firm, from taking on water, but with little success. The stock was sinking quickly. In just a few months, Lehman had given back ten years of gains. Two days before the meeting, Lehman announced a second-quarter loss of $2.8 billion, its first negative quarter in fourteen years, causing the stock to plummet again, 21 percent in a couple of days. Fuld’s own people, their net worth evaporating, were losing confidence. Hugh Skip McGee, the global head of investment banking and for years a loyal Lehman employee, had requested the meeting. They gathered in Fuld’s private dining room on the 32nd floor of Lehman’s Seventh Avenue headquarters, a somber mahogany-paneled room, with a list of several demands, chief among them a change in leadership.“The board of directors is going to be under pressure,” said one banker. And then added, “It has to deliver a head to the street.”br /br /At about five-eight, Fuld isn’t physically imposing. But he has intensely dark eyes and a deep, wide forehead that slopes so sharply it reminds some of a can opener. Those features, and a palpable inner intensity, give him an almost animalistic presence. “Through these little physical cues, he made it seem like [a situation] will lead to physical violence if you didn’t relent,” says one former executive.br /br /“I’ve given you fourteen years of earnings. I have one bad quarter. This is how you respond?” Fuld shot back. The veins on his neck popped.br /br /But the bankers pressed their case. Actually, they wanted two heads. They would spare Fuld the indignity of a coup, but they wanted him to fire Joe Gregory, Lehman’s president, and Erin Callan, Gregory’s protégée, whom he’d made CFO and who had been the public, sunny face of Lehman as it spiraled down. Firing Gregory would be personally devastating to Fuld, as the bankers knew. Over three decades at Lehman, the two had rarely sat more than a hundred feet from each other. Professionally, they were complements: Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nymag.com/news/business/52603/"Read more.../a/blockquoteh4Related toRichard S. 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GLG Partners Hedge Fund Update

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:50:37 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bGLG Partners Fund/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"GLG Partners Hedge Fund Update/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.terrapinn.com/TRes/Customer/P30314.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.terrapinn.com/TRes/Customer/P30314.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aJust a quick note to let you know that our team has updated the Hedge Fund Tracker notes for GLG Partners.br /br /To read the updated profiles see this link: a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: GLG Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Profile Notes" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/glg-partners-hedge-fund-tracker-profile.html" title="GLG Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Profile Notes"GLG Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Profile Notes/abr /br /br /br /br /br /h4Related to GLG Partners Hedge Fund Update/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment at a Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Employment Opportunities" alt="Hedge Fund Employment" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Enhance your Hedge Fund Career"Careers amp; Employment Guide /a/li/ulTags: GLG Partners, Hedge Fund Notes, GLG Funds, GLG Fund, GLG Partners New York, GLG Partners Assets, GLG Partners AUM, GLG Hedge Fund manager, GLG Europe, GLG Australiadiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=LI6An"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=LI6An" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=EnzQN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=EnzQN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=yV4Jn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=yV4Jn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/465157123" height="1" width="1"/

Top 4 Hedge Fund Industry Fears | Market Insights

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:33:26 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Fears/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"The Top 4 Hedge Fund Fears/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:kkCdZlpOBSNRSM:http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4655/tightrope19ef927qt6.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 115px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:kkCdZlpOBSNRSM:http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4655/tightrope19ef927qt6.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aOver the last 3 months and a series of conversations with hedge fund managers, prime brokerage professionals, administrators and marketers it seems there are 4 big fears in the industry right now.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Top 4 Hedge Fund Fears/spanbr /ollispan style="font-weight: bold;"A flat or highly volatile market/span for a period of more than 18-24 months - effectively wiping out those hedge funds which were hanging on for those greener pastures of another bull market.br //lilispan style="font-weight: bold;"Long-term deterioration of leverage/span of almost any type. While many hedge funds already use no or close to no leverage many others use large amounts of it and many funds would be hampered if new regulations are put into place which severely limit their access to it. Read an article on this topic a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94126cc8-b9c7-11dd-99dc-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1"here/a.br //lilispan style="font-weight: bold;"Desperate hedge fund managers/span committing enough fraud to scare off a large percentage of the High net worth and ultra high net worth investor base. There is article on my site on ethics located a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/hedge-fund-ethics.html"here/a.br //lilispan style="font-weight: bold;"Overbearing regulation/span which pushes hedge fund activity into Canada, over to London and across the world away from New York. The industry is already suffering large redemption losses and regulation done the wrong way could stifle further innovation or at least push even more of it offshore. As the recently hedge fund testimony showed, many hedge funds are open to some forms of regulation or over-sight but these must be done in ways which are sensitive to the intellectual knowledge and security disclosure concerns specific to this industry. Listen to the recent a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/hedge-fund-testimonial-videos.html"congressional testimony by hedge fund managers/a by clicking a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/hedge-fund-testimonial-videos.html"here/a.br //li/olOther interesting points that have come out of talking to hedge funds - most expect the markets to stay flat or negative for an additional 6-9 months and the majority see this to be a huge opportunity for positioning their fund for explosive growth in 2010 and 2011.br /h4Related to Top 4 Hedge Fund Industry Fears | Market Insights/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia description="A collection of tools for hedge fund startups" alt="Hedge Fund Startup Tools" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools"Hedge Fund Startup Tools/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Fears, Hedge Fund Market, Hedge Fund Markets, Hedge Fund Market performance, Hedge Fund Frauds, Hedge Fund leverage, Use of Leverage By Hedge Fundsdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=OTken"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=OTken" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=lmnhN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=lmnhN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?a=DwEbn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/richard-wilson-blog?i=DwEbn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richard-wilson-blog/~4/464224983" height="1" width="1"/

Japanese Hedge Fund Managers | Hedging Skills

Richard C. Wilson — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:49:07 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bJapanese Hedge Fundsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Japanese Hedge Fund Managers| Notes/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.uva.co.uk/wp/wp-content/projects/onTheRoad/tokyo/tokyo01.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 130px;" src="http://www.uva.co.uk/wp/wp-content/projects/onTheRoad/tokyo/tokyo01.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aIt would seem that choppy markets in a title="Japanese Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/japenese-hedge-funds.html" description="Guide to hedge funds in Japan" alt="Japanese Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds in Japan, Hedge Fund in Japan"Japan/a over the past several years is now helping hedge funds in this region navigate the current financial crisis. Most of the funds I know which run funds focusing on Japanese securities also run diversified Asia or China funds which have done very poorly, I would be curious to see if those managers who run both Japan-specific funds as well as China funds faired better than the average fund in China. Here is the article excerpt:br /a title="Japanese Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/japenese-hedge-funds.html" description="Guide to hedge funds in Japan" alt="Japanese Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds in Japan, Hedge Fund in Japan"/ablockquotea title="Japanese Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/07/japenese-hedge-funds.html" description="Guide to hedge funds in Japan" alt="Japanese Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds in Japan, Hedge Fund in Japan"Japan's hedge fund industry/a, dominated by so-called long-short funds that bet on rising and falling stock prices, will attract capital on signs they are starting to outperform peers, Credit Suisse Group AG said.br /br /The 81-fund Eurekahedge Japan Long-Short Equities Index fell 11 percent this year through October, compared with a 21 percent drop for an index that tracks more than 1,000 global long-short hedge funds and a 40 percent slide by the MSCI World Index, a global benchmark.br /br /``Japanese long-short strategies have weathered reasonably well the market turmoil,'' Boris Arabadjiev, head of alpha strategies at Zurich-based Credit Suisse's asset management unit, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. ``That relative performance has already started to attract capital, and we believe that it will continue to attract capital. We continue to be favorably disposed to managers investing in Japan.''br /br /This year has been the worst on record for hedge funds, an estimated $1.56 trillion industry, with the average fund losing 16 percent through October, according to data compiled by Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. 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Hedge Fund Maguire | Letter Blasts the Actions of Desperate Hedge Fund

Richard C. Wilson — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:22:04 +0000

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Maguire/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Maguire | Letter to Hedge Fundsbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Articles/20071107/425.cruise.maguire.110707.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 137px;" src="http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Articles/20071107/425.cruise.maguire.110707.jpg" alt="" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) Below is a short excerpt from the NY Post and their comments on a letter which Sandra Manzke sent out earlier this week regarding the recent actions of many desperate hedge fund managers. If anyone has the full version of this letter please shoot it over or post it below. For now here is an excerpt of the review article:br /br /Fed up with misbehavior in the hedge-fund industry, respected a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Investors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/01/hedge-fund-investors.html" title="Hedge Fund Investors"hedge fund investor/a Sandra Manzke is fighting back.br /br /A pioneer in hedge-fund investing and best known for founding Tremont Capital Management, Manzke sent an angry missive to hundreds of her peers earlier this week, calling on them to join together to push for reform in the $1.5 trillion industry.br /br /"I am appalled and disgusted by the activities of a number of hedge-fund managers," said the letter, which raises a fist against what Manzke sees as a general degradation of a alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Ethics" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/hedge-fund-ethics.html" title="Hedge Fund Ethics"ethics/a in the industry.br /br /The letter, reminiscent of the way in which Tom Cruise's Hollywood agent character penned a manifesto blasting his cutthroat industry in the hit movie "Jerry Maguire," comes amid a historic shakeout of this once-lucrative business. Hedge funds are battling the double blows of poor a description="Hedge Fund Performance, Hedge Funds Performance, Hedge Fund Return, Hedge Fund Returns, Hedge Funds Returns" alt="Hedge Fund Performance" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-performance.html" title="Hedge Fund Performance"performance/a - down an average of 20 percent so far this year - and billions in investor withdrawals, known as a title="Hedge Fund Redemptions" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/hedge-fund-redemptions.html" description="Hedge Fund Redemptions, Hedge Fund Redemption, Hedge Fund Redemption Dates, Hedge Fund Redemption Date" alt="Hedge Fund Redemptions, Hedge Fund Redemption"redemptions/a. a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.nypost.com/seven/11212008/business/hedgie_horrified_140028.htm"Read more.../abr /br /Here is the actual letter:br /br /MAXAM Capital Management LLCbr /RE: AN IMPORTANT LETTER TO HEDGE FUND INVESTORSbr /Dear Sir/Madam:br /br /I was one of the earliest investors in hedge funds. I made my first investment in 1985 when the industry was exclusive to the United States and there were only 68 funds in existence. As such, I have watched the industry grow from a small private investment club to its current state managing in excess of a trillion dollars with more than 10,000 funds. I was an early proponent of the fund of funds business which enabled smaller investors the ability to access the talent pool, and gain diversification with lower minimum investment. I once was proud of the industry, now I am concerned.br /br /While we all recognize the difficulties of the current market environment, I am appalled and disgusted by the activities of a number of hedge fund managers. The increased use of gating, side pocketing, suspension of redemptions, failure to post an NAV, fund liquidations that favor management are just a few of activities that are giving this industry a bad name. Worse, there are managers who are attempting to get their money out ahead of investors, attempts to eliminate high water marks, asking investors to increase fees to pay for fund expenses, receiving fees on liquidating funds, receiving fees on illiquid securities, and mispricing their books.br /br /We have seen funds which claimed to have no leverage, in fact, facing margin calls that wipe out capital. And managers who have received millions of dollars in incentive fees, walking away and leaving investors with nothing. Further, management fees have crept up to outrageous levels and hedge fund organizations are paying employees lucrative wages, while investors are bearing these costs, unjustified by mounting losses.br /br /I was in favor of SEC registration and oversight and 2008 is certainly a poster child for the need for better regulation. Now, I feel that investors need to form an organization to protect against the egregious hedge fund manager. Hedge fund managers do not disclose their investors and we are each operating in a vacuum. We should be able to unite to change how this industry operates. I am proposing that we form the “Hedge Fund Investors United Forum” to propose reform in the industry that would protect our clients’ and our own interests.br /br /Carl Icahn has started his shareholders group to change the behavior of corporate America. I urge everyone to go to his blog and join, because corporate America has lost its way. Corporate management needs to get back to running companies to make money for shareholders, not for personal gain. We need to get hedge fund managers to work for their investors and not for their personal gain.br /br /As a group we can influence the future of the industry. We can start to define neutrally beneficial terms, not punitive investor terms. If we want to survive, we have to restore confidence and reshape the industry. I am not saying everyone out there is a bad apple, but there are too many bad apples for my taste and it only takes a few to bring the industry to its knees.br /br /If you are interested in joining with me to bring reform to this industry, please email me and together we can start the process.br /br /With great concern,br /Sandra L. 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What is Not Said About Hedge Funds

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:33:01 +0000

What is Not Said

What is Not Said About Hedge Funds

While looking for interesting posts for the hedge fund newsletter today I realized there are many topics not being discussed in detail. While there are 30 articles about how hedge funds never really hedged their investments and many more on assets losses few discuss these points:

Hedge funds have lost far less than the average bank. Banks are supposed to be the highly regulated and less risky vehicles here. This is important to note as more regulation is considered for the hedge fund industry. Joe the plumber has money with these banks in multiple ways through his 401K, mortgage, etc. He does not have any money invested in Perry Capital, DE Shaw or Renaissance Technologies.

There are 4 reasons why hedge funds are going to explode in growth and recover their losses in 2-3 years.

Hedge funds are sitting on cash right now instead of being able to grow it - this stalls their asset raising efforts right now and makes it more likely that investors will simply want their money back to manage their cash themselves.
Hedge funds have lost far less than the market, banks and in some cases real estate investments as well. Once the dust settles the daily headlines of fund closures will stop and the reports on how hedge funds have still be relatively outperforming their competitors will again be seen more often.
Investors are sitting on cash and will want to deploy that after the market turns around in 1-2 years. This may take a long time to happen, but when it does hedge funds will immediately see a 20% raise in their assets under management.
When the stock market does correct hedge funds will be there faster and in larger numbers than ever before. The hedge fund industry now has more technology, more competitors and more incentives than ever to outperform. When the bull market comes back does not matter as much as the fact that once it does hedge funds will be in line first capturing the most value for their investors.

This is not to say hedge funds are a great investment or something everyone should consider, but I hear hedge fund managers and marketers speak to the points above - yet rarely see this view within the mainstream media outlets.

Do you agree? Am I way off base from what you predict will happen? Please answer with a simple yes, no or explanation of your views below within the comments section if you have a minute.

Financial Designation on Hedge Funds | New Site

Richard C. Wilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:11:28 +0000

Financial Designation

Financial Designation on Hedge Funds

Last week the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) released a new website to support the CHA Designation Program. This new site is online at http://CHADesignation.org.

To date the most frequently visited pages of the site have included:

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Pershing Square Capital Management | Hedge Fund Tracker Notes

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:06:50 +0000

Pershing Square Capital

Pershing Square Capital Management | Notes

The following piece on Pershing Square Capital Management and Bill Ackman (shown left) is being published as part of our daily effort to track hedge fund events in the industry. To review other hedge fund related announcements please see our Hedge Fund Tracker Tool.

Resource #1: (11.18.08) Target Corp (TGT.N) shareholder Pershing Square Capital Management will present on Wednesday a revised proposal to boost Target's long-term value and address concerns raised about an earlier version calling on the retailer to spin off the land under its stores.

But a Target spokeswoman said the discount retailer is still reviewing the Pershing proposal and has not yet made a decision on it. Target shares were down 4.8 percent at $29.99 in late afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Nearly three weeks ago, hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management owns roughly 10 percent of Target's stock, called on Target to spin off to shareholders a real estate investment trust that would own the land beneath its stores.

Ackman said the deal would unlock the value of Target's real estate and boost its sagging stock price. But the discount retailer said the proposal might make the company vulnerable to a credit downgrade. That, in turn, would make it even tougher to borrow money during the current financial crisis. Management also expressed concern about other issues, including reduced financial flexibility.

It now appears Ackman has made some adjustments to his original plan in response to Target's concerns.

"The revised transaction addresses each of the concerns raised by the company ... and incorporates feedback from shareholders, bondholders, and other market participants," Pershing said in a statement. Source
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Resource #2: View Pershing Square Capital's lastest 13F details here: Pershing Square Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis

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Resource #3: View a video interview with Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital here: Pershing Square Capital Management | Bill Ackman Video Interview

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Wall Street Crash of 1929 | 1 Hour Video

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:35:28 +0000

Wall Street Crash of 1929

Wall Street Crash of 1929 | 1 Hour Video

Quick Link: Hedge Fund Videos

Here is an hour long video no the Wall Street Crash of 1929. If you are viewing this post through my daily hedge fund newsletter please click here now to view this video on my website.

Hat tip to Earnings Breakout for first finding it.

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Julian Robertson Interview | Hedge Fund Video

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:05:00 +0000

Julian Robertson

Julian Robertson Interview Video

Quick Link: Hedge Fund Videos

Below is a short video with Julian Robertson. If you are viewing this post via my daily hedge fund newsletter please click here to view it on my website now.

Some quotes from this video:

“America is a like a family who over-spent for years.. has to de-lever itself.. take a long, long time for that to be completed.. I look for a long tough period for the American people”

“I am not positioned long… I am short personally quite a bit”

“So far I don’t think we had the blow to the economy that will eventually obviously come from the wealth devastation that’s occured the last several months”

“General de-leveraging will be a strain on the economy for a long time”

On Google: “(Market) throwing the high multiple stocks out with the bath water. I look to take further advantage of that.”

On Baidu: “Baidu is a fantastic company that has great potential in China. Their market cap is a tiny fraction of Googles. Their potential is probably equal or greater. A case of a stock that will have terrific growth and will be recognized in the years ahead.

Hat tip to earnings breakout for finding the video and pulling out the quotes.

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Pershing Square Capital Management Bill Ackman Video

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:04:32 +0000

Pershing Square Capital

Pershing Square Capital Management Video

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Here is a short video by Charlie Rose on Bill Ackman, the hedge fund manager who runs Pershing Square Capital Management. If you are viewing this via my daily hedge fund newsletter please click here to view the video now.

Hat tip to Earnings Breakout for finding the vide.

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Pershing Square Capital Management 13F Holdings Analysis

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:47:49 +0000

Pershing Square 13F

Pershing Square Capital 13F Holdings

Below are some details related to specific securities shown within Pershing Square's recent 13F Filing with the SEC. While these filings don't often show the complete picture of a fund's investments they are interesting to review as they show a sample of their total holdings. Please click on the image below for a clear view of this holdings report.

Source: SEC 13F Filing | MFF Reports

Watch a recent video on Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management here or read more of these 13F holdings analysis pieces within our Investment Securities and Holdings Tool.

The securities included within this update:

American International Group Inc (AIG)
Barnes And Noble Inc (BKS)
Borders Group Inc (BGP)
Emc Corpmassachusetts (EMC)
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd (GLRE)
Longs Drug Stores Corp (LDG)
Mastercard Inc (MA)
Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD)
Target Corp (TGT)
Visa Inc (V)
Wachovia Corp (WB)
Wendysarbys Group Inc (TRY.B)

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Hedge Fund Industry Pulse Check

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:23 +0000

Industry Pulse

Hedge Fund Industry Pulse Check

(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) I was on the phone yesterday with a hedge fund investor who said he simply could not keep up with all of the news coming out on hedge funds without spending his whole work day tracking it. He wanted to know what to receive a series of updates within a single post.

Here is a collection of quotes on the current state of the hedge fund industry:

- Hedge-fund manager David Tepper entered the third quarter with $3.1 billion of U.S. stocks and exited with $648 million, selling most holdings to reduce risk and raise cash as carnage spread across the financial markets. “We moved a lot out early because we didn’t want to lose money,” said Tepper, 51, president of Appaloosa Management LP in Chatham, New Jersey. The firm, which switched some money to bonds, has between 30 percent and 40 percent of assets in cash.

- Regulatory filings last week by 38 hedge funds with more than $1 billion in assets each show that selling and market declines cut the value of their reported holdings by about 30 percent to $273 billion.

- At least 75 funds have liquidated or halted redemptions this year. With the Nov. 15 deadline for year-end withdrawal requests now past, fund managers may be forced to unload more stocks to pay off clients.

- Atticus Capital LP, based in New York, said its holdings declined to $510 million from $8.1 billion. In an Oct. 1 letter to investors, David Slager, 36, who manages the Atticus European Fund, told investors that more than 50 percent of his fund was in cash or U.S. Treasuries after he lost 43.5 percent year-to-date.

- At Tudor Investment Corp., the Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge-fund group founded by Paul Tudor Jones, 13F holdings fell to $453 million from $5.7 billion. Jones said markets face more selling from managers. “Our concern now is less over year-end fund redemptions, as record cash balances have already been raised in anticipation, but with prospective fund closures,” Jones, 54, said in an Oct. 31 report to his clients. “This latter event represents a tipping point at which a fund’s call on the market for liquidity goes non-linear.”

- SAC Capital Advisors, LLC of Stamford, Connecticut, said its holdings were $7.7 billion as of Sept. 30, down from $14.4 billion at June 30. Founder Steven Cohen, 52, had about half the firm’s assets in cash in mid-October, after his main fund fell 5 percent through September.

- Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital Management, LLC said the value of its 13F securities fell 69 percent to $1.4 billion, while at Jana Partners LLC, a firm overseen by Barry Rosenstein that makes activist investments, they fell to $2.1 billion from $5.9 billion.

- Jeffrey Vinik, who once ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund, disclosed that his Boston-based Vinik Asset Management LP held $1.8 billion at Sept. 30, down from $11.8 billion at June 30.

- “Movements in financial markets were so volatile, so unpredictable and so seemingly detached from fundamentals” that many hedge-fund managers “didn’t feel they had an edge,” said Doug Peta, an independent market strategist in New York. “The best thing they could do for their investors was to pull back entirely until markets returned to more of a sense of normalcy.”

- The largest funds, including those run by David Shaw, Kenneth Griffin and James Simons, reported smaller declines in their holdings. At Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group LLC, holdings listed on Citadel LP’s 13F fell 11 percent to $50.4 billion. Simons’s Renaissance Technologies LLC of East Setauket, New York, reported a 17 percent decline to $37.8 billion. At New York-based DE Shaw & Co., the filing showed a 20 percent decrease to $45.4 billion. Source

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SEC Hedge Fund Registration | A New Proposal

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:49:01 +0000

SEC Registration

SEC Hedge Fund Registration Proposal

(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) Senator Charles Grassley (shown left) will soon be introducing a bill which will again attempt to force hedge fund managers to register with the SEC. Below is a short article excerpt on this:

Sen. Charles Grassley said that he would reintroduce in the 111th Congress a bill requiring hedge fund advisers to register with the SEC, effectively providing a legislative override of the federal appeals court Goldstein ruling. He said that the bill would be modeled on the Hedge Fund Registration Act, S. 1402, that the senator introduced in May of 2007. That legislation was referred to the Senate Banking Committee but never brought up for consideration.

The Grassley bill would authorize the SEC to require all investment advisers, including hedge fund managers, to register with the SEC. The bill would, however, exempt investment advisers who manage less than $50 million, have fewer than fifteen clients, do not hold themselves out to the public as investment advisers, and manage the assets for fewer than fifteen investors, regardless of whether investment is direct or through a pooled investment vehicle, such as a hedge fund.

Specifically, the bill would amend section 203(b)(3) of the Investment Advisers Act to narrow the current exemption from registration for certain investment advisers. This exemption is used by large, private pooled investment vehicles, commonly referred to as hedge funds. According to Sen. Grassley, who is the Ranking Member on the Finance Committee, hedge funds are operated by advisors who manage billions of dollars for groups of wealthy investors in total secrecy. They should at least have to register with the SEC, he emphasized, like other investment advisers do. Read more...

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Mark Cuban Insider Trading SEC Charges

Richard C. Wilson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:30:29 +0000

Mark Cuban Insider Trading

Mark Cuban Insider Trading SEC Charges

Last Friday I wrote a response to a blog post Mark Cuban published on hedge funds here. Today Mark Cuban faced charges of insider trading by the SEC. Apparently he sold shares of Mamma.com after learning of a PIPE transaction to be completed a day before that transaction had been publicly announced. Below please find his initial response followed by the full announcement by the SEC.

___________Mark Cuban's Response:

I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job.
November 17, 2008
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District
for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division

Mark Cuban today responded to a civil complaint filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States District for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. In its complaint, the Commission charges that Mr. Cuban engaged in violations of the federal securities laws in connection with transactions in the securities of Mamma.com Inc.

This matter, which has been pending before the Commission for nearly two years, has no merit and is a product of gross abuse of prosecutorial discretion. Mr. Cuban intends to contest the allegations and to demonstrate that the Commission’s claims are infected by the misconduct of the staff of its Enforcement Division.

Mr. Cuban stated, “I am disappointed that the Commission chose to bring this case based upon its Enforcement staff’s win-at-any-cost ambitions. The staff’s process was result-oriented, facts be damned. The government’s claims are false and they will be proven to be so.”

________________SEC Announcement Below

Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2008 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of the stock of an Internet search engine company on the basis of material, non-public information concerning an impending stock offering.

The Commission's complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleges that in June 2004, Mamma.com Inc. invited Cuban to participate in the stock offering after he agreed to keep the information confidential. The complaint further alleges that Cuban knew that the offering would be conducted at a discount to the prevailing market price and that it would be dilutive to existing shareholders.

Within hours of receiving this information, according to the complaint, Cuban called his broker and instructed him to sell Cuban's entire position in the company. When the offering was publicly announced, Mamma.com's stock price opened at $11.89, down $1.215 or 9.3 percent from the prior day's closing price of $13.105. According to the complaint, Cuban avoided losses in excess of $750,000 by selling his stock prior to the public announcement of the offering.

"Insider trading cases are a high priority for the Commission. This case demonstrates yet again that the Commission will aggressively pursue illegal insider trading whenever it occurs," said Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

Scott W. Friestad, Deputy Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said, "As we allege in the complaint, Mamma.com entrusted Mr. Cuban with nonpublic information after he promised to keep the information confidential. Less than four hours later, Mr. Cuban betrayed that trust by placing an order to sell all of his shares. It is fundamentally unfair for someone to use access to nonpublic information to improperly gain an edge on the market."

The complaint alleges that Cuban violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The Commission's complaint seeks to permanently enjoin Cuban from future violations of the federal securities laws, disgorgement (with prejudgment interest), and a financial penalty.

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T2 Capital Partners LP | 13F Holdings Analysis

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:56:09 +0000

T2 Capital Partners LP

T2 Capital Partners LP | Hedge Fund Notes

Please click on the image below to view a report on the top 15 security position of T2 Capital Partners according to their most recent 13F filings with the SEC on November 13th, 2009.

Shares mentioned within T2's most recent 13F filing included:

Alliancebernstein Holding Lp (AB)
Ambassadors International Inc (AMIE)
American Express Co (AXP)
American Italian Pasta Co (AITP.PK)
American Oriental Bioengineering ... (AOB)
Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc (BUD)
Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY)
Atlas Pipeline Partners Lp (APL)
Atp Oil And Gas Corp (ATPG)
Barnes And Noble Inc (BKS)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRK.A)
Borders Group Inc (BGP)
Celebrate Express Inc (BDAY)
Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK)
Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO)
Clearpoint Business Resources Inc (CPBRU)
Contango Oil And Gas Co (MCF)
Delias Inc (DLIA)
Ebay Inc (EBAY)
Echostar Corp (SATS)
Emc Corpmassachusetts (EMC)
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH)
Federal National Mortgage Associa ... (FNM)
Goldman Sachs Group Incthe (GS)
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd (GLRE)
Hennessy Advisors Inc (HNNA.OB)
Jamba Inc (JMBAW)
Kinross Gold Corp (KGC)
Microsoft Corp (MSFT)
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp (ORH)
Petmed Express Inc (PETS)
Pf Changs China Bistro Inc (PFCB)
Photochannel Networks Inc (PNWIF.PK)
Premier Exhibitions Inc (PRXI)
Proliance International Inc (PLI)
Prospect Capital Corp (RK8.BE)
Research In Motion Ltd (RIMM)
Resource America Inc (REXI)
Seabridge Gold Inc (SA)
Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD)
Southwestern Energy Co (SWN)
Starbucks Corp (SBUX)
Summer Infant Inc (SUMRU)
Syneron Medical Ltd (ELOS)
Target Corp (TGT)
Travelcenters Of America Llc (TA)
Universal Stainless And Alloy (USAP)
Weyco Group Inc (WEYS)
Whole Foods Market Inc (WFMI)
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc (WINN)

Source: SEC 13F Filing | MFF Holdings

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