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Overly Leveraged Private Equity Deals Add to Unemployment and Deepen Recession

Shah Gilani — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:06:16 +0000

pThe once booming business of private equity faces an uncertain future. What’s not uncertain, however, is that many private equity deals are imploding from the weight of leveraged debt and greed. Inevitable bankruptcies will result in higher unemployment and a deeper recession./p pPrivate equity is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded. The name “private equity”is the rechristened, kinder and more gentile label for what used to be known as leveraged buyouts, or LBOs. But make no mistake about it, while leverage may not be part of the name any more, it remains a big part of every private equity deal./p pLBO firms, or “franchises”, as Henry Kravis, co-founder of a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AKKR" target="_blank"Kohlberg Kravis Roberts #38;#8230;/a/p

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"/

Julian Robertson Interview | Hedge Fund Video

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

Julian Robertson

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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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Fortresss Investment Group Hedge Fund Tracker Notes

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:38:34 +0000

Fortress Investment Group

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Just a quick note that we have updated the Fortress Investment Group Hedge Fund Tracker profile. Read the updated profile here: Fortress Investment Group LLC

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Asset Management Finance Corp

Richard C. Wilson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:15:08 +0000

Asset Management Finance

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The following piece on Asset Management Finance Corp 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.

This story is about how Credit Suisse purchasing Asset Management Finance Corp. which provides funding to early stage hedge funds in exchange for revenue sharing on future fund earnings. It will be interesting to see if Credit Suisse significantly alters AMF's due diligence process while looking at funds, or presses them to fund Credit Suisse associated groups...
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Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, bought New York-based Asset Management Finance Corp. for $384 million to provide financing to investment firms.

Credit Suisse paid stock for more than 80 percent of the firm, founded by former Putnam Investments chief Norton Reamer in 2003, from a unit of National Bank of Canada. Reamer, 72, who also ran Boston-based United Asset Management Corp., will stay on, the bank said today in a statement.

AMF, which provides capital to money managers in exchange for a slice of revenue, will benefit from Credit Suisse's global reach, said Brian Finn, chairman of the Zurich-based company's alternative-asset business. The unit, which manages $167 billion, holds a minority stake in hedge-fund firm Ospraie Mangement LLC and has started joint investing ventures with Abu Dhabi and General Electric Co.

AMF ``is a platform with a leadership team and an investment approach in which we see enormous growth opportunities,'' Finn said in an interview. Read more...

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Pharos Fund Russian Hedge Fund

Richard C. Wilson — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:43:25 +0000

Pharos Fund

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The following piece on Pharos Fund 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.

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The following is a list of resources and information that is publicly available about Pharas Fund.

Pharos fund portfolio.
Whitepaper on Pharos Fund. The White paper explains how the pharos fund manager makes decisions.
Every letter to all investors for 2008, from the Pharos Fund and Gas Fund.
Excel spreadsheet of every Pharos funds performance. So far, 2008 has a negative return on every fund.
Excel spreadsheet breakdown of Sector allocations for the pharos fund.
Excel spreadsheet breakdown of Sector allocations for the Gas fund. Pretty self-explanatory, the fund invests in options and futures in oil and natural gas.
Article about how there will be an increasing demand for natural gas.
Excel spreadsheet of Pharos small cap fund. The small cap fund uses Russia’s building economy and uses illiquid shares to make a profit.
Daily market comment and performance of all three funds. The Political Environment is fragile, which will create volatility in the market overall, which is good for each hedge fund.
Article about how all Pharos funds are down. The MSCI Russia Index is down 32.4% due to “a reversal of fortune from the market's earlier outperformance.”
The Georgia conflict severely hurt the Russian economy because investors pulled out more than $7 billion. Russian may not be allowed to host the next Olympics and the U.S. is restricting Visas for Russians.
Pharos said that the Russian economy is stable, but foreign investors insecurity will create short term-volatility.
Name of this article pretty much sums it up- “Pharos, TPG to acquire American Beacon Advisors for $480m.”
Interview with Peter Halloran. Eastern European (Russian affiliated) countries are rapidly growing faster than other developing nations.
Article about the government planning to increase domestic gas prices by 25-40 per cent, over the next three years.
A blog post that has a about positive outlook for every Pharos fund, for the month of June.
Article about how hurricane Gustav may increase gas to $5 a gallon. This may effect pharos gas fund.

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Fortress Investment Group LLC

Richard C. Wilson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:54 +0000

Fortress Investment Group LLC

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The following piece on Fortress 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.
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Fortress Investment Group LLC, the manager of $18 billion in hedge funds, will open a fund to invest in the Middle East and North Africa as countries in the region seek to reduce their dependence on the oil industry.

The Fortress MENA Fund LP will be managed by Philippe Peress and is set to begin trading by the end of September, according to marketing documents, which didn't say how much money the company is seeking to raise. Peress, based in Geneva, has been a managing director and partner of the company's Drawbridge Global Macro funds since 2003.

``Historically MENA was characterized by low investment rates relative to Asian peers,'' New York-based Fortress said in the documents, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News. ``This is beginning to change as governments use petro-dollars to diversify the economies away from oil.''

Middle East economies, benefiting from oil prices that tripled in the past five years, will expand 9.2 percent in 2008 as revenue spurs spending on infrastructure such as airports and power plants, New York-based Morgan Stanley has forecast. That's more than double the International Monetary Fund's 4.8 percent global growth projection. Read more...

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