| In Troubled Times, Hedge Funds Go Macro (New York Times)
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| Hedge fund managers are looking to global macro funds to try to steer clear of the mess created by the credit crisis, while cautiously dipping into a small pool of more risky assets, a Reuters poll found.
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| (AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-24 09:56 UPDATE 1-Singapore fund management assets up on hedge funds (Interactive Investor)
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SINGAPORE, July 24 (Reuters) - Assets handled by fund managers in Singapore grew 32 percent to S$1.173 trillion ($860 billion) last year, bolstered by a doubling in assets held by hedge funds, the central bank said on Thursday.
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| Hedge funds are betting on baby boomer deaths (Asbury Park Press)
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Service Corp. International, the biggest U.S. funeral-home and cemetery owner, is becoming a magnet for hedge funds which see the rising death rate among baby boomers as the surest way to resurrect the company's shares.
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| Hedge fund chiefs look to global macro funds in difficult market (International Herald Tribune)
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Most hedge funds, even amid stormy markets, have still managed to keep well ahead of the severe double-digit losses suffered by global stock markets in the first half of the year.
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| HBOS Woes May Signal Payday for Hedge Funds (New York Times)
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HBOS ‘ woes may have reaped hedge funds with short positions in the lender more than 1 billion pounds ($2 billion), The Independent estimated.
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| CSX, hedge funds still fighting over vote (The Business Journal of Jacksonville)
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CSX Corp. is still bickering with the activist hedge funds that claim to have won four seats on the company's board of directors.
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| HFN Launches Quantitative Tool for Ranking Hedge Funds and Funds of Funds (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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NEW YORK----HedgeFund.net has launched the HFN Multi-Factor Ranking Model to allow hedge fund investors to screen for the best relative ranked funds in the HFN database of 8,300+ hedge funds, funds of funds and CTA/managed futures products.
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| Paulson Eyes Sickly Hedge Funds (Forbes)
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U.S. Treasury secretary wants a way to close them down.
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| Hedge Funds: New Paulson fund may invest in banks that need capital (Market Watch)
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Paulson & Co. is considering launching a new hedge fund that will invest in capital-hungry banks and brokers, less than a year after the firm made billions of dollars betting against subprime-mortgage securities.
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| The pension scheme of UK publisher Newsquest Media Group has invested 10% of its assets into hedge funds, more than ... (eFinancial News)
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The pension scheme of UK publisher Newsquest Media Group has invested 10% of its assets into hedge funds, more than five times the average of UK pension funds, which tend to still largely invest in long-only equities.
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