Halloween 2008Halloween 2008 | Scariest One Yet2008 is proving to be the hardest market which hedge funds have faced since the first hedge fund was formed half a century ago. The top 5 scariest things about the current financial crisis and the state of the hedge fund industry:Hedge fund gating clauses, lock-up periods and other agreements screen the true level of hedge fund redemptions. Is it hard to know how much capital is waiting to leave the industry.While I don't believe is, Soros could be right. The hedge fund industry could shrink by over 50% and it could take 5-7 years to climb out of that hole as an industry.I have not ran an analysis of this yet, but I seem to be seeing more frequent cases of hedge fund ...

Citadel GroupCitadel Investment Group, Inc. | UpdateJust a quick note that we have just updated Citadel Investment Group's Hedge Fund Tracker Tool profile with two additional updatesView the updated profile now by clicking on this link: Citadel Investment Group LLC.Additional Reading Related to Kenneth Griffin's Citadel Group:Highland Capital Management | Hedge Fund NotesDrake Capital Management LLC | Hedge Fund NotesFarallon Capital Management Partners LPDiapason Commodities Management SA | Commodity ManagementTantallon Capital | Hedge Fund Closure NotesCerberus Capital ...

Andrew LahdeAndrew Lahde | Hedge Fund Closure LetterPast Post: Andrew Lahde | Andrew Lahde Capital Hedge Fund NotesI just received this note and letter from a trader in the industry after noticing that over 2,000 people today had read my former post on Andrew Lahde and his Lahde Capital Fund. Here is Andrew's fund closure letter with a short intro courtesy of Portfolio:Andrew Lahde, manager of a small California hedge fund, Lahde Capital, burst into the spotlight last year after his one-year-old fund returned 866 percent betting against the subprime collapse.Last month, he did the unthinkable -- he shut things down, claiming dealing with his bank counterparties had become too risky. Today, Lahde passed along his "goodbye" letter, a rollicking missive on everything from greed ...

Kenneth GriffinCitadel Investment Group, Inc. | UpdateJust a quick note that we have just updated Citadel Investment Group's Hedge Fund Tracker Tool profile. View the updated profile now by clicking on this link: Citadel Investment Group LLC.Additional Reading Related to Kenneth Griffin's Citadel Group:Highland Capital Management | Hedge Fund NotesDrake Capital Management LLC | Hedge Fund NotesFarallon Capital Management Partners LPDiapason Commodities Management SA | Commodity ManagementTantallon Capital | Hedge Fund Closure NotesCerberus Capital Management LP | ...

Diapason Commodities ManagementDiapason’s Commodity Hedge Fund WiltsThe following piece on Diapason Commodities Management is being published as part of our Hedge Fund Tracker Tool, our daily effort to track hedge funds in the industry.Diapason Commodities Management, the $7 billion Lausanne, Switzerland-based commodity-focused alternatives shop is currently feeling the pinch of the downtrodden market. The firm’s 10-month old Long/Short Agriculture Commodity Fund dropped another 7.42% last month, bringing its year-to-date losses to 3.48%. According to the firm’s investor letter, the agriculture sector was under assault in September by hordes of sellers forced to liquidate their positions on the back of the failures of well-known institutions, but also because of a more favorable outlook for the 2008 crops.“Bigger than anticipated harvests in Europe and the Black Sea region boosted the amount ...