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  • Crude oil futures slip as funds increase bet on higher prices

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    Crude oil futures kept falling back from highs even though speculative funds increased their bets that prices are headed higher. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract ended the week at $80.68 a barrel, after nearing $83 earlier in the week, compared to $81.24 a week ago. Saudi Arabia‘s oil minister, Ali Naimi, made it clear…

  • Wealthy Moving to Hedge Funds

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    The world’s wealthiest private investors are planning to put more money into alternative investments over the next three years, a report says. The study said the global rich are increasingly attracted by private equity schemes and hedge funds as they offer more stable returns than shares. Here’s a recent news release to show that September…

  • First U.S. Natural Gas-Based Fund

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    NEW YORK, April 18, 2007 – Victoria Bay Asset Management, LLC and the American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced today the launch of the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG), an exchange traded security based on natural gas, which will list on the Amex under the ticker “UNG.” The investment objective of UNG is to…

  • Alternative Energy & Inflation Fund

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    Shield Plus LLC, a #1 ranked institutional investment adviser, registered as a CTA/CPO, is launching the Shield Plus 90, LP — Alternative Energy & Inflation Fund. This Fund enables institutions and other accredited investors to participate directly in the alternative energy and inflation-related markets through a market-neutral investment approach. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 18, 2007…

  • Are Hedge Funds out of Control?

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    If you go to Amazon.com and search for books about venture capital, you get 14,114 responses, which includes many text books. Andrew Metrick, a professor of finance at Wharton, has just written a new book on the subject — titled, Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation. Unlike the thousands of other books on the…

  • JP Morgan Launches Three New International Funds

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    JP Morgan Funds, the U.S. mutual fund business of JPM organ Asset Management, today launched three new international mutual funds: JP Morgan China Region Fund, JP Morgan Latin America Fund and JP Morgan Russia Fund. JP Morgan Asset Management has a vast global investment team, with experienced investors entrenched in markets around the world,” said…

  • Ivy Funds One of Fastest Growing Fund Families

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    The Ivy Funds ranked among the fastest growing mutual fund families in 2006, according to a recent study released by Financial Research Corporation (FRC). The Ivy Funds, with a 68 percent increase in assets under management in 2006, ranked fourth in terms of asset growth over the year among all firms with assets of $5…

  • US Investor – Wake Up

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    Look Internationally for Investment Inspiration Michael Fischer is an investment professional with over ten years of experience, the latter nine at Goldman Sachs. He has bought and sold billions of dollars of investment products on behalf of his clients and himself; and shares his expertise in his new book Savings and Investing: Financial Knowledge and…

  • DBA The agricultural ETF

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    Several new ETFs were introduced that enhance the ability of investors to join in the commodities game. While many of them including the oil, gold, and silver ETF (DBO, DBS, DGL) are improvements on previous funds, the DBA fund is the first that allows investors to get involved in the agricultural commodities – perhaps the…