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Tag: Hedge Funds

  • Record number of new Hedge Funds launched in Cayman Islands

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    WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – A record number of new hedge funds were created during the first half of 2005, according to Busnesswire reports. Despite the global slowdown in hedge fund returns during the first half of 2005, there was a 13 percent increase in the number of new hedge fund launches compared to…

  • In Defense of Hedge Funds

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    IT’S BOTH AMAZING AND a little bit bizarre that the same mainstream media that told folks to stick it out for the long haul while the market melted in 2000 and 2001 are now writing smear pieces about hedge funds simply because they’re not minting money this year. Indeed, we’re now in the golden age…

  • Hedge funds in the crosshairs

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    Hedge funds have long been viewed as one of the more untouchable areas of the financial markets, and now 30,000 Canadian investors, along with a handful of pension funds, know why: Quite literally, they can’t touch their money. More than $1.2-billion they invested in two domestic hedge fund companies has been frozen by securities regulators…