RFA Introduces Sentinel, Managed Real-time Security Intelligence Service that Maximizes Network Uptime and Profitability for Hedge Funds
RFA Sentinel provides essential real-time security intelligence to help identify and understand hacker, virus and SPAM/spyware behavior, security breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive information. Armed with this information, enterprises are able to easily combat security threats while meeting compliance auditing requirements. This proactive approach leads to vastly improved security, reduced network downtime and increased profitability for hedge funds.
Hedge Fund Launch.com Sees Rocky Road for Start-Up Hedge Funds in Months Ahead
Hedge Fund Launch.com sees a difficult environment for start up and emerging hedge funds over the next several months. Fall out from the U.S. credit crisis, losses from "blue chip" hedge funds and a slowing economy have caused many allocations to hedge funds to cease. Hedge Fund Launch.com offers some insights to hedgefund managers trying to raise capital in this environment.
Man Financial Licenses SDS Financial Technologies' Alternative Trading System to Deliver Man E-Finance Trading Platform to Hedge Funds Clients
Man Financial has chosen SDS Financial Technologies' Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) to launch its new Man E-Finance fixed-income trading platform to hedge fund clients in the United States. SDS ATS provided Man Financial with the technology, supporting functionality and network connectivity it required to rapidly implement the Man E-Finance Marketplace in less than 6 weeks and there are plans to develop a European version for release in late 2007.
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was a pioneer of non-traditional investment strategies.
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 ...
Rauf Ashraf, Emerging Hedge Fund Manager, Diversifies to Distressed Opportunities
Rauf Ashraf has been identified by Goldman Sachs as a rising star and recommended by the former Fidelity Investment's $60 billion dollar Magellan Fund Manager.
Opalesque Publishes Australia Hedge Fund Manager Roundtable -- Local Managers Outperform, But Capacity May Not Be There For Long
* How Australian hedge fund managers exploit the relative immaturity of the local industry and as a group have been outperforming their global peers consistently since 2000
* International investors should go there soon to secure capacity -- why capacities may not be there for long
* Roundtable Series Provides Unique, New Insights into Global Hedge Fund Industry
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.
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