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some hedge fund stories
Managers Use Hedge Funds as Big IRA's
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
But thanks to the peculiarities of the structure of hedge funds and their enormous growth, the tax-deferred sums that hedge fund managers earn may be far ...
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Activist hedge funds, buyout firms clashing more
MarketWatch - USA
In the past, activist hedge funds would help the process along by finding under-performing companies, criticizing executives publicly and arguing for a sale ...
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Unregulated, overpaid hedge funds feed fears of collapse
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
As salaries of leading hedge-fund traders top a billion dollars, fears are mounting about an industry bubble. The secretive nature of the funds, ...
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Dutch to investigate hedge funds
Government to investigate hedge funds
Monday 23 April 2007
The finance ministry is to begin an investigation into how active hedge funds and private equity groups are in the Netherlands, finance minister Wouter Bos said at the weekend.
The announcement by Bos followed an EU finance ministers' meeting in Berlin. 'Some people say their [hedge funds and private equity firms] activities only account for 1% of the economy. If that is so, then we don't needed to revamp all our financial legislation,' Bos said.
Hedge funds have become a controversial issue in the Netherlands in recent months following their efforts to force several Dutch companies to split up.
Stork and ABN Amro are currently under attack from hedge funds, while newspaper group PCM was bought and sold again by private equity group Apax.
Bos said hedge funds could be useful in forcing companies to improve their performance and boost efficiency. 'But do such active shareholders damage the interests of workers, management and customers?,' Bos asked in today's Volkskrant.
'We have to ask if bonuses and golden handshakes are becoming bigger because of hedge funds and if long-term strategic thinking is being rendered useless by the funds' demands for quick returns,' he said.
This weekend's EU meeting focused on the need for more transparency by hedge funds. Ministers plan to draw up a voluntary code of conduct which they hope the big buy-up funds will adhere to
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Stock tickers?
I"m looking for a great collation of foreign equity indices, even indiv stock tickers
any ideas?
And speaking of Singapore
I was in Singapore also. What a place. I'm sorry not to have visited the western end of the Island. I only had the chance to tour some investment firms, all in the high rises near Orchard Road.
Ignoring the economy, i was taken by the a) trees, b) the ubiquity of English and c) the heat. It was for me, like Miami in the summer, albeit cleaner and with more English speakers :)
shots follow this
My visit to Delhi
Speaking of Emerging Markets; i was just in Delhi.
Looked at Real estate in the nearby town of Gurgaon. Wow.
While the pace and scope is amazing, i just happened to find a 10 year old copy of National Geographic. It could have been written yesterday. It noted nearly everything I might note today (poverty amidst new development, new high rises, the middle class, etc)
Some shots from my visit
Macau
I don't even know what to ask about Macau?
Other than gambling and casinos, can you make money ... on...
construction
retail
financials?
Singapore, Raffles, Hedge Funds (I want to go)
wow, if only i could strap myself into coach and fly to this
http://www.goingtomeet.com/conventions/details/8575
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