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Hedge Fund Activity In a Bidder
On my final exam last semester the students were asked to advise a hedge fund that has purchased shares of a bidder in a control acquisition of a third party target. The hedge fund wants leverage to break up the...

Paying for failure, TCI edition
Tom Cahill , June 24: Christopher Cooper-Hohn?s $9.5 billion hedge fund proposed cutting fees and easing withdrawal limits to retain clients after top executives quit and it lost 43 percent last year, according to three investors...

Hedge Fund Losses, Layoffs, Closures, and Fee Cuts
Hedge funds, like other market participants, are both victim and, to some, creators, of the current market crisis. In September, hedge fund investors redeemed an estimated $43 billion of approximately $1...

Investing in a Hedge Fund is Like Joining the Country Club
Yes, "successful" mutual fund and hedge fund managers are just lucky. Here is the math. Why they don't people invest in a boring fund like Vanguard's S&P 500 Index, or PIMCO Total Return? Because then you don't get to say, "I invest with [insert prestigious hedge fund]...

SEC May Seek Hedge Fund Registration
Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Schapiro on Thursday told the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs that the SEC may soon push for the registration of hedge funds...

The value of hedge-fund experience
A lot of asset-management professionals dream of one day running a hedge fund. But in the case of Maxime Carmignac, it looks more like it's the other way around: the heir apparent to the $48 billion Carmignac Gestion fund-management empire is now running an internal $100 million hedge fund as part of her preparations for taking over from her father as CEO, CIO, or both.

Hedge Funds
alleging companies involved in mortgage fraud.

Ariel Fund
ARGFX

Ariel Fund
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

The Reserve Fund's Primary Fund
RFIXX

Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund
OPCHX

Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund
OPCAX