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Is The Next Bubble Going To Be Gold?
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 2 hours ago
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This Marketwatch report suggests the latter, but I wonder if we’ll know when the smart money gets out… Gold has long been favored by a fringe of the investment world, but this year some of the world’s leading hedge-fund managers have loaded up on the...
Tags: hedge fund, precious metals, New York City, Institutional investors, Hedge funds, Exchange-traded fund, John Paulson, Investment, Financial services, Funds, Business Finance
New institutional investor builds stake in Comverse
Rishon Le Zion :: Israel | 1 day ago
Credibility Pink Sheets-listed companies are not below the radar of US institutional investors. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by Comverse on Friday, Level Global Investors LP has become a party at interest in the company, with a 5.1%...
Tags: Comverse Level Global Investors, Level Global Investors LP, institutional investor, pink sheets, hedge funds, Israel, Rishon Le Zion, Comverse Technology, Hedge fund, Options backdating, Investment, Institutional investors, Financial services, Business Finance
Treasury to Auction Off Big-Bank Warrants
Tarp :: Germany | 3 days ago
Credibility A year after the federal government rescued the nation’s financial industry, the Treasury Department announced Thursday that it would auction off its remaining investments in three large banks, freeing the lenders from the federal bailout program. The...
Tags: Treasury Department, Goldman Sachs, TCF Financial, Capital One Financial, Germany, Tarp, Banking in the United States, Troubled Asset Relief Program, United States Department of the Treasury, Warrant, Investment banks, Primary dealers, Hedge funds, Business Finance, Politics
'Free' gifts to Wall St hit recovery
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Earlier this week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made...
Tags: New York City, Subprime mortgage crisis, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bailout, Bear Stearns, Long-Term Capital Management, Business Finance, Hedge funds, American International Group, Financial crises, Timothy Geithner, Answers in Genesis, AIG bonus payments controversy, Politics, Banking in the United States, United States Department of the Treasury
Seven firms picked to manage GERS's alternative investments --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | 3 days ago
Credibility Government Employees Retirement System board of trustees on Thursday selected seven companies to manage a host of alternative investments in real estate, private equity and hedge funds. The board selected UBS Global Asset Management, Blackrock, ING, Mesirow...
Tags: GERS, alternative investments, real estate, Blackrock, cash flow, hedge funds, British Virgin Islands, Road Town
Hedge-Fund King Comes Under Siege
Manhattan :: KS :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Hedge-fund titan Kenneth Griffin lost $8 billion of his clients' money last year. Now, he is trying to persuade investors to trust him with more. "We showed a level of human fallibility," he told his staff at a late-September lunch in Manhattan. The price...
Tags: hedge fund, Kenneth Griffin, Manhattan, Citadel Investment Group, Hedge funds, Financial services, Investment, Business Finance
FundWatch: Commodities the ticket for global fund managers
Madrid :: Spain | 5 days ago
Credibility Global fund managers are hedging their bets against future inflation and pouring more money into commodities and emerging markets, according to a monthly survey released Wednesday. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey for November revealed that commodity...
Tags: fund managers, BofA Merrill Lynch, Spain, Madrid, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Investment management, Banc of America Securities, UBS AG, Primary dealers, Investment, Financial services, Business Finance, Hedge funds, Long-Term Capital Management, Hospitality Recreation, Finance, Inflation, Short, Financial markets
Canadian embroiled in London financial sex scandal
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility The headlines scream of a lurid sex scandal with London papers salivating as a normally staid employment tribunal hears tales of prostitutes, hitmen, strip clubs and inappropriate sexual advances. 'Sex Pest Victim' is accused of lying: reads Tuesday's...
Tags: Jordan Wimmer, Central London Employment Tribunal, dumb blonde, United Kingdom, London, Hedge funds, Financial services, Investment, Wimmer, Social Issues, Law Crime, Jokes, Stereotypes, Harassment, Ed Lowe, Lowe, Sexual harassment, Discrimination, Labor, Blond
Algonquin taps convert market
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility T he Street has converted another company to the gospel of convertible debentures, as Algonquin Power & Utilities raised $75-million recently by issuing both common stock and this equity-linked paper. Algonquin raised money as part of a move to rebuild...
Tags: Algonquin Power & Utilities, convert debenture, hedge funds, Canada, Toronto
Raking in the fees for the folk at Cooper
Melbourne :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility Investors has turned in a bumper year, reporting no less than a 24 per cent increase in pre-tax earnings to $24 million. Cripes, how could Peter Cooper , that walking encyclopedia of quotations, manage that sort of performance in a year when markets were...
Tags: Peter Cooper, Melbourne Model, University of Melbourne, law schools, Australia, Melbourne, P/E ratio, Investment management, Management fee, Financial services, Investment, Hedge funds, Business Finance
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