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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:43:28 -0700

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The 7 Habits of Highly Suspicious Funds

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:02:10 -0700

You've heard this story before: A trader at a bank is knocking the cover off the ball. His success garners political power within the bank. He creates a fiefdom that insulates him from the rest of the firm; his trading group explodes in size. He lives a conspicuous, extravagant lifestyle. His ego alienates the management and intimidates the support staff. Then the trader hits a rough patch. He...

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Hedge Fund Focus 22-06-09

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:36 -0700

Hedge Fund Focus 12-06-09

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:02:22 -0700

Profile - Elliott Associates, Hollywood Power Player

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:04:32 -0700

He is hardly your average movie investor. He cultivates his privacy, and he heads a $13 billion hedge fund that, unlike those run by Carl Icahn and others, rarely mounts a proxy fight. But while most Hollywood bankers have turned off the money spigot, billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Associates appears to be stepping up its investments. Last year the firm lent money to film investor Ryan...

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Hedge Funds are changing the way they look at risk

Fri, 29 May 2009 04:44:10 -0700

Hedge-fund managers are prioritizing risk management like never before. Before the 2008 meltdown, portfolio managers used risk management to satisfy institutional investors' due-diligence requirements. Some managers were less averse to risk than others, but generally speaking risk management wasn't a top-line issue for hedge funds. Now, as investors clamor for more transparency, risk management...

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Hedge Fund Links: An Introduction to Hedge Funds

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:02:51 -0700

This report by Sovan Mitra was originally written as an industry white paper and gives an overview of Hedge Funds, with a focus on risk management issues.

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Hedge Fund Links: Hedge Funds - Risk and Return (2005, pdf)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:34:41 -0800

Constructing a data base that is relatively free of bias, this paper by Burton G. Malkiel and Atanu Saha provides adjusted measures of the returns and risk of hedge funds.

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Hedge Fund Links: The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:54:54 -0800

The EDHEC-Risk web site is based on a simple idea but one which provides a structure for all of EDHEC's financial research activities.

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Hedge Fund Links: The Pros and Cons of Passive Hedge Fund Regulation (pdf, Oct 2008)

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:52:52 -0800

A report by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre has carried out extensive research on asset allocation involving alternative investments in general, and hedge funds in particular

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Hedge Fund Links: The Lucrative World of Third Party Marketing

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:19:32 -0800

An interesting article by Richard Wilson over at investopedia.

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Hedge Fund Links: List of Third Party Marketing Firms

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:16:21 -0800

Compiled in the MoneyScience Hedge Fund Service Providers Directory.

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Hedge Fund Links: Third Party Marketing Blog

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:08:22 -0800

Plenty of links, articles and resources here.

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Hedge Fund Links: Thne Third Party Marketing Association

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:03:37 -0800

The Third Party Marketers Association was formed in 1998 with the aim of cultivating relationships and business opportunities among members and to provide information and education about the industry.

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hedge fund tweets: Book Excerpt: ‘Hedge Fund Wives’ - http://bit.ly/ICHah

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:11:12 -0700

hedgefundfocus: Book Excerpt: ‘Hedge Fund Wives’ - http://bit.ly/ICHah

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hedge fund tweets: Tonnes of Hedge Fund Launch announcements this week: http://bit.ly/pJyty

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:15:40 -0700

hedgefundfocus: Tonnes of Hedge Fund Launch announcements this week: http://bit.ly/pJyty

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hedge fund tweets: James Montier, has resigned from French bank Societe Generale to join a hedge fund - http://bit.ly/OIcK

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:20:07 -0700

hedgefundfocus: James Montier, has resigned from French bank Societe Generale to join a hedge fund - http://bit.ly/OIcK

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hedge fund tweets: Michael Jackson had a few scraps with the alternative investments industry. http://www.finalternatives.com/node/8351 - #michaeljackson

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:13:01 -0700

hedgefundfocus: Michael Jackson had a few scraps with the alternative investments industry. http://www.finalternatives.com/node/8351 - #michaeljackson

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hedge fund tweets: Plan for OTC Derivatives Clearinghouse opens new doors for Fund Managers - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124603134121861335.html

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:10:53 -0700

hedgefundfocus: Plan for OTC Derivatives Clearinghouse opens new doors for Fund Managers - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124603134121861335.html

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hedge fund tweets: Secondary Market Thrives for Hedge Fund Shares - http://bit.ly/bHRau

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:25:37 -0700

hedgefundfocus: Secondary Market Thrives for Hedge Fund Shares - http://bit.ly/bHRau

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Service Provider: Tomlinson Investment Consulting

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:59:25 -0700

London, GB - A specialist provider of consultancy services to the investment management industry.

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Service Provider: Guidepoint Global

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:48:58 -0700

New York, GB - Guidepoint Global is a primary research firm that provides investors and business decision-makers with on-demand access to its worldwide network of industry experts.

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Service Provider: Abbaye & Lloyd

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:33:02 -0700

Esher, GB - Working together makes us who we are. We provide some of the most experienced and dedicated minds in risk analysis and business management. Together with our key partners we individually and collectively provide you with a comprehensive and wide ranging skills base to understand and improve your business structure and apply this to whatever sector you operate in, however specialised....

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Service Provider: Pershing LLC

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:26:56 -0700

Jersey City, US -

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Service Provider: Lighthouse Prime

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:54:34 -0700

New York, US - Lighthouse Prime Services, a division of Lighthouse Financial Group, specializes in hedge fund brokerage and high velocity trading.

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Event: Alternative Investments and Hedge Funds

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:10:48 -0700

Location: Geneva, Switzerland. Date:2009-09-21 00:00:00. Professor Thomas Schneeweis and Mr. Giovanni Beliossi The course will present both academic/professional research as well as operational overviews on the use of alternative investments including hedge funds, managed futures, commodities, private equity, real estate and hybrid funds as stand alone investments as well as investments in a...

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Event: Pricing exotic interest rate derivatives - The LIBOR Market Model in QuantLib with Mark Joshi

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:23:57 -0700

Location: The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, UK. Date:2010-06-02 00:00:00. Request a Brochure 2-4 June , 2010 The Institute of Physics 76 Portland Place, London, UK This three-day course will be led by an international expert who played a large role in the coding of the LIBOR market model in the QuantLib C++ open-source project. He will examine the practical problems that arise...

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Event: The Heston Stochastic Volatility Model - Pricing, Calibration and Monte Carlo Simulation with Wim Schoutens

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:07:49 -0700

Location: The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, UK. Date:2009-11-09 00:00:00. This course introduces and applies the advanced stochastic volatility model of Heston with a focus on the pricing of equity derivatives. The objective of this workshop is to develop a solid understanding of the model and to give participants the mathematical and practical background necessary to apply the...

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Event: Volatility and Correlation

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:16:30 -0700

Location: Geneva, Switzerland. Date:2009-11-09 00:00:00. Professor Tim Bollerslev The past year has seen some unprecedented changes in day-to-day asset prices within and across most financial markets, clearly highlighting the need for accurate and reliable volatility and correlation measurement, modeling, and forecasting procedures. This course surveys the most prominent volatility and...

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Event: Modern Equity Portfolio Management

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:12:45 -0700

Location: Geneva, Switzerland. Date:2009-09-28 00:00:00. Professor François-Serge Lhabitant The course focuses on fundamental quantitative concepts in equity portfolio management. Participants will gain a clearer and more extensive understanding of how to determine the investment style of both long only and long/short equity portfolios. Participants will also learn how to analyze the...

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Event: Summer School - Monte Carlo Methods and Applications in Finance and Insurance Models

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:10:43 -0700

Location: University of Lausanne, Switzerland . Date:2009-08-10 00:00:00. Monte Carlo Methods are often the only way to deal with high-dimensional computational problems. Examples are the valuation of complex (interest rate) derivatives, the simulation of assets and asset-liability-management. But the simple Monte Carlo method is often extremely slow. In this course we present new efficient Monte...

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Event: 33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:08:31 -0700

Location: Berlin, Germany. Date:2009-07-27 00:00:00. This conference is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It is the major annual meeting for researchers working in the field of Stochastic Processes and their Applications. The conference covers a wide range of active...

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Event: MathFinance Seminar on Foreign Exchange Exotic Options

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:46:02 -0700

Location: Lisbon, Portugal. Date:2009-07-14 00:00:00. This practical two-day course covers the pricing, hedging and application of FX exotics for use in trading, risk management, financial engineering and structured products. Presented by Prof. Dr. Uwe Wystup. FURTHER information THE COURSE FX exotics are becoming increasingly commonplace in today's capital markets. The objective of this workshop...

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