Opalesque Webinar: Creating Reinsurance Firms and Banks - New Permanent Capital Vehicles for Hedge Funds and Fund of Funds
Opalesque, the world's largest subscription-based publisher on alternative investments, hosts an exclusive webinar for hedge fund founders and partners on how to successfully set up banks and reinsurance companies in order to secure permanent capital. The webinar will be held Thursday, June 12th 10 am New York time.
Hedge Funds and M & A?s
The merger mania is continuing, with many firms in the United States and Europe being bought up by hedge funds. An enormous amount of capital has flocked to hedge funds in order to exploit the low or non-existent tax rates in offshore financial centers such as the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. The US and other major stock markets are not going up at a level to satisfy the financial lust of the ultra-rich, so the idea is to move into hedge funds since they are what are called ?market neutral?. It is a manifestation of the hyperinflation tendencies that all this money is around to run M & As. Lear Corporation announced on Dec 1st its deal to sell its interiors business to Wilbur L. Ross's International Automotive Group North America. The ...
RFA eHarbor Backup/Restore Solution Securely Protects Hedge Funds' Valuable Data Before a Computer Crash
The best protection against disaster is to prevent it from happening in the first place. With your security in mind, RFA has developed eHarbor, a simple-to-use, WAN-based backup/restore solution for file and email data to provide secure, off-site data storage.
Lost data is a common contributor to downtime that can lead to business failure. Whether due to viruses, human error, power failures, malicious acts or corrupted disk drives, computer crashes are a regular occurrence, and are a significant and typically hidden cost in any business. A recent Gartner survey found that 109 million U.S. adults have received e-mail attacks by way of phishing in 2006 - up from 57 million in 2004. Financial losses from phishing attacks in 2006 cost mo...
Stock Research ? Hedge Funds ? If Bear Stearns Doesn?t Know ? Who Knows???
As the hedge fund world becomes bigger and bigger as more and more hot money seeks the elusive alpha of maximum performance, it is becoming apparent that more and more newspaper space will be devoted to hedge funds, and private equity. Recent news has taken us into the inner sanctum of Bear Stearns, truly a dominant investment firm in the world today. It might be argued that Bear Stearns is the best managed Wall Street firm in existence. Some might say Goldman Sach?s. In any event Bear Stearns would have to be on the short list.
Hedge Funds Use Channel Checkers For Primary Research
Two-thirds of hedge funds with greater than $1.5 billion in assets perform channel checks, with over 45% using third party firms to assist the process. Specialized channel research firms serving hedge funds and other institutional investors have grown from four firms to over twenty during the last ten years, according to a study released by Integrity Research.
Investment Strategy - Why You Should Consider Investing In Hedge Funds
If you aren?t familiar with a hedge fund this is a fund that can have either long or short positions, will buy and sell undervalued securities, as well as trade options, and bonds. There are plenty of reasons why you should consider investing in hedge funds as part of your investment strategy.
Top 9 Tips to Selecting A Fund of Hedge Funds Database
Anyone who has the ability to successfully navigate the many channels of capital within the hedge fund industry is worth their weight in gold (and thats rising every day). There are two major components of marketing and selling a hedge fund which each take constant attention and refining.
Regosho.com Launches Short Sale Compliance Website for Brokers and Hedge Funds
Addresses SEC Emergency Order for FNM, FRE, BAC, MER, GS, LEH
Vision Capital Management (CTA and Hedge Fund Manager) Posts Double-Digit Returns for June 2008
Vision Capital Management (http://www.forwardthinking.vc), a Commodity Trading Advisor and hedge fund manager, has announced estimated returns of +31.6% for the month of June 2008. Vision Capital Management was active 51 of 55 commodity futures markets it trades, 73% of which were profitable. The best performing investments were made in crude oil futures, cocoa futures, and soybean futures. Additionally, Vision Capital Management took advantage of declining equity markets, gaining +3% in this sector while the S&P 500 fell more than 8.5%.
Hedge Funds Use Channel Checkers For Primary Research
Two-thirds of hedge funds with greater than $1.5 billion in assets perform channel checks, with over 45% using third party firms to assist the process. Specialized channel research firms serving hedge funds and other institutional investors have grown from four firms to over twenty during the last ten years, according to a study released by Integrity Research.
Will Hedge Funds Be The New Banks? New York Managers Expect Bright Future
Opalesque New York Roundtable offers intriguing insights into the future of hedge funds. Expert Hedge Fund Allocators See "Tremendous Opportunities In Multiple Asset Classes".
Investment Techniques for Volatile Markets - Hedge Fund Manager Reveals Secret Strategies
Helping Hands eBooks announces the publication of its new eBook Invest and Grow Rich - NOW, Everyone's Guide to POWER INVESTING in 2008. This eBook is focused on providing ordinary investors the knowledge and the means to earn extraordinary results. Also, immediately being released, is a free, monthly Investment Advisory Newsletter by the author of the book.
This book clearly answers to burning questions for investors: Is it possible to make money in the market, no matter which way it moves? Is it possible to manage investments so that investment value can double every two years-safely?