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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. ...

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; ...

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;" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...