Friday, 12 December 2008

Climate-proofing Alpine options



Those investing in Alpine property in France will tend to do so with the aim of getting good rental returns from wint...
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Rating the prospects
France contains many attractive reasons that have brought in British buyers down the years. Whether they are looking ...
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Citadel Suspends Withdrawals in Two Hedge Funds After 50% Drop - Bloomberg

Citadel Suspends Withdrawals in Two Hedge Funds After 50% Drop
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
Citadel joins hedge funds including Fortress Investment Group LLC and Tudor Investment Corp. in limiting withdrawals as hedge funds head for their biggest ...
Hedge Funds: November Performance Update Seeking Alpha
Citadel to cover operating expenses Chicago Tribune
Citadel's Blood in the Street BusinessWeek
New York Times Blogs - Chicago Tribune
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The Lowdown on Leveraged Loans - MSNBC

The Lowdown on Leveraged Loans
MSNBC - 9 hours ago
The discounts have little to do with questions of fundamental value and more to do with the sheer volume of selling by hedge funds and other owners who need ...

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New investment tactics for Cyprus?



Those who have been investing in Cyprus in recent years have been enjoying a number of advantageous circumstances. Th...
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Rating the prospects
France contains many attractive reasons that have brought in British buyers down the years. Whether they are looking ...
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How Hedge Funds and Private Equity Hurt Us - The Nation.

How Hedge Funds and Private Equity Hurt Us
The Nation., NY - 2 hours ago
Nicholas von Hoffman: College endowments and workers bear the brunt of hedge fund managers' gambles and private equity takeovers. ...

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Investors Who Entrusted Funds to Firm Are Shaken by Arrest - Wall Street Journal



Wall Street Journal - 12 hours ago
Many investors gained exposure to Mr. Madoff through hedge fund of funds, including Tremont Capital Management, a major distributor of Mr. Madoff's fund, ...
Bernie Madoff's arrest sent tremors into Palm Beach Palm Beach Daily News
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Madoff World Conde Nast Portfolio
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Metrovacesa offers to sell HSBC tower for £300m loss (Daily Telegraph)
Troubled Spanish property group offers HSBC the chance to buy back their headquarters in Canary Wharf writes Graham Ruddick.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Dreier Jailed Without Bail for Alleged Fraud Targeting Hedge Funds - HedgeCo.net

Canada.com

Dreier Jailed Without Bail for Alleged Fraud Targeting Hedge Funds
HedgeCo.net, FL - 17 hours ago
While it was first believed that only a few prominent big-name hedge funds were targeted, new evidence supports the theory that Dreier may have targeted ...
Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (Update1) Bloomberg
Feds Now Say Dreier Bilked Investors Of $380 Million Forbes
New York lawyer charged with stealing millions from hedge funds Telegraph.co.uk
Forbes - Bloomberg
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All about location
If 'Location Location Location' sounds like not just a TV programme title but a hackneyed phrase, tha...
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Brent Sheather: Local funds need narrower spread - New Zealand Herald



Brent Sheather: Local funds need narrower spread
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour ago
Passively managed funds have had a real boost of late with the advent of exchange traded funds, or ETFs, as they are commonly known. ETFs and hedge funds ...
Tax-Loss Harvesting Trickier In Volatile Times IndexUniverse.com
The instant diversifier - why every stock picker should know about ... CompareShares
Short ETFs May Pose Huge Tax-Liability ETFguide
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Citadel to cover operating expenses - Chicago Tribune

Citadel to cover operating expenses
Chicago Tribune, United States - 9 hours ago
Hedge funds typically finance operations by taking 2 percent of assets, then retaining 20 percent of profits to pay employee performance bonuses. ...
Citadel's Blood in the Street BusinessWeek
Citadel to Cover Its Own Operating Expenses New York Times Blogs
Citadel to cover much of its own operating expenses Chicago Tribune
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Hedge Funds Shrink by $64 Billion, Eurekahedge Says (Update2) - Bloomberg

Hedge Funds Shrink by $64 Billion, Eurekahedge Says (Update2)
Bloomberg - Dec 10, 2008
It said hedge-fund assets shrank by $110 billion to $1.65 trillion in October. The slump takes declines to 13 percent this year as hedge funds accelerate ...
Citadel forced to rein in its Asia ambitions Financial Times
Och-Ziff Cuts About 10 Jobs in Asia Wall Street Journal
Citadel Is On Top Of The World* DealBreaker.Com
RTT News - International Herald Tribune
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Layoffs as property slowdown increases (Tiscali)
LONDON (Reuters) - In a sign of the increasingly acute contraction of the worldwide property market, building supplies company Wolseley announced a slew of layoffs and store closures, sending its shares tumbling as much as 8 percent in early trading.
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No sitting down on the investment job



Those keen on investing in property and unfamiliar with the trade may have illusions that the business does not requi...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-27 10:35 UPDATE 2-Quintain says outlook challenging, NAV down 37 pct (Interactive Investor)
By Farah Master
Source: www.iii.co.uk

Not the last cut
For some investors in property, yesterday's Bank of England decision to trim the base rate by one per cent to...
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Tug of war - InsideHousing
‘The government needs to decide on its key priority,’ says CML director-general Michael Coogan. ‘The tug of war with lenders being pulled in every direction at once needs to ...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-25 10:57 UPDATE 1-Russia LSR 9-mth profit falls on portfolio revaluation (Interactive Investor)
MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Shares in Russian construction and real estate company LSR Group fell as much as 65 percent after the company said its nine-month earnings collapsed due to a portfolio revaluation. Net profit fell 82 percent to $44 million, from $249 million in the first nine months of 2007, the company said in a statement. Normalised net profit, which excludes the effect of the ...
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A base rate of zero?



The last few months has brought enough gloomy economy news to prompt waves of speculation over the sort of action tha...
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Bargain USA
When it comes to investing in US property, the name of the game seems to be bargain hunting just now. The land of the...
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Developers Deals Galore For Group Bids By Investors
Our new online property auction division launched this week at www.assetz.co.uk/auction and it has been a stunning su...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008

Worst Year Ever For Canyon Hedge Funds - FINalternatives



FINalternatives, NY - 8 hours ago
In fact, the $19 billion hedge fund, founded by Drexel Burnham Lambert veterans Joshua Friedman and Mitchell Julis, is having its worst year ever, ...

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Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (Update1) - Bloomberg

New York Magazine

Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (Update1)
Bloomberg - Dec 10, 2008
Dreier faces criminal and civil allegations that he cheated hedge funds out of more than $100 million. The US Securities and Exchange Commission added the ...
The Dreier Case: Where's All The Money? Forbes
New York lawyer charged with stealing millions from hedge funds Telegraph.co.uk
Big Time NYC Lawyer Accused of Scheming Hedge Funds HedgeCo.net
Wall Street Journal Blogs - Bloomberg
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Losses widen at McKay Securities (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
real estate investment trust McKay Securities saw its net asset value per share dive in the first half of its financial year, as the commercial property sector’s slump worsened.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com