According to Bloomberg, some of the brightest, most successful hedge fund managers got into trouble too.br /br /-span style="font-style:italic;"In the close-knit hedge fund community, where confessions of a mistake are rare, billionaires Louis Bacon, Kenneth Griffin and Paul Tudor Jones are retreating from borrowed-money bets, private equity and emerging market debt and championing more transparent stocks, bonds and currencies./span br /br /Hedge funds got into the same cycle of "everyone's doing it, so we need to to stay competitive." But with massive losses and forced selling due to fund redemptions, Hedge funds now will get back to basics, and this should help to stabilize the market a bit. br /br /I wrote about a href="http://briskycapital.blogspot.com/2008/08/are-hedge-funds-ruining-market.html"hedge funds and their potential problems this earlier this year/a. These funds help create asset bubbles with excess leverage, and they increase market volatility by swapping in and out of stocks and sectors ...

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;" ...

Tudor Hedge FundTudor Hedge Fund 13F Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Next up in the macro hedge fund tracking series we have Tudor Investment Corp, the brainchild of Paul Tudor Jones. Taken from Wikipedia, the bio of PTJ is as follows: "In 1980 he founded Tudor Investment Corporation which is today a leading asset management firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Tudor Group, which consists of Tudor Investment Corporation and its affiliates, is involved in active trading, investing and research in the global equity, venture capital, debt, currency and commodity markets. One of Jones' earliest and major successes was predicting Black Monday in 1987, tripling his money during the event due to large short positions. Jones uses a global macro ...

Hedge Fund ReturnsHedge Fund Year to Date ReturnsWhile these "year to date returns" are now slightly out of date here's a nice guest post by Market Folly on the performance of some of the more well known funds in the hedge fund industry:

Well, we recently got an update as to just how poorly hedge funds are performing year to date. Don't get me wrong, there are of course some standout performers. But, for the most part, they are taking it on the chin. Even some of the best and brightest in the game are right there with you. Hell, you're probably even outperforming some of these funds. Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, we get a look at many notable hedge fund's performance year to date.

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