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August was rotten for many hedge managers
BOSTON (Reuters) - August was a rotten month for stocks and it wasn't much kinder to some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers, early returns show.
G20 task force steps up work on shadow bank rules
LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Stability Board, a task force set up by world leaders to strengthen regulation, will step up work on new rules to supervise the multi-trillion dollar "shadow banking" sector.
Hedge funds shift target after short-selling bans
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds have raised their bets against financial stocks in the UK, United States and Germany as a short-selling ban in four euro zone countries prompted them to focus elsewhere for ways to profit from the banking sector's difficulties.
Chicago hedge fund manager pleads guilty to fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philip Baker, former managing director of the collapsed Chicago hedge fund Lake Shore Asset Management, pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in what prosecutors called a $291.8 million worldwide fraud.
"Black box" hedge funds profit in volatile markets
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds run by sophisticated computer programs are profiting from large falls in stock markets and a rocketing gold price this month, even as funds managed by human beings struggle to cope with high market volatility.
Investors back hedge funds amid turbulence
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors are largely sticking with hedge funds to guide them through the summer's highly volatile markets, data showed on Thursday, despite lacklustre performances so far this year from these freewheeling portfolios.
The bonds that turned to dust
LONDON (Reuters) - Treasure seekers have trekked into Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of a lost gold mine for more than a century. Three years ago, Italian economics professor Alberto Micalizzi, whose hedge fund was on the verge of collapse, looked to the nearby town of Apache Junction to shore up his own fortune.
Special report - The perils of Paulson
By Matthew Goldstein, Jennifer Ablan and Svea Herbst-Bayliss
Paulson's search for greener pastures
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In April, John Paulson told some of his investors during a conference he held at the Aria hotel and casino in Las Vegas that he had been too optimistic about the timing of a rebound in the U.S. housing market.
Man Group executives strike share-buying spree
LONDON (Reuters) - Man Group's three highest profile directors have spent almost 300,000 pounds on the hedge fund manager's flagging stock after a steep decline in UK equities slashed the value of Britain's biggest companies.
Getting there from here
There is a danger sometimes in allowing the calendar to dictate your interpretation of financial market behaviour
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