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Entry Level Hedge Fund Jobs 2008-03-08 20:15:08 Entry Level Hedge
Fund JobsHere is an article I wrote for Fin Alternatives on the 6 Steps to Getting Your First Hedge Fund
Job- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSRelated Articles:1. What is a Hedge Fund?2. Available Hedge Fund Employees3. Hedge Fund Recruiters4. Hedge Fund Books5. Multi-Family OfficesPermanent Link: Entry Level Hedge Fund JobsRelated Terms: Entry-level hedge fund jobs, entry level hedge fund jobs, first hedge fund job
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Hedge Funds Risk Management 2008-03-08 15:05:19 Hedge Funds
Risk Management
A Short Review of Hedge Fund Risk ManagementWhen trying to maximize absolute returns, the importance of assessing and mitigating risk shouldn't be underestimated. Some memorable examples like LTCM and Tiger Fund not only show how heavy losses can be for some participants of the hedge fund industry, but also reinforce the perception that a good record of high absolute returns can mean absolutely nothing in an environment of improperly managed risk. The most important lesson in terms of Hedge Fund Risk Management comes from the improper name of this kind of alternative investment: The idea that all systematic risks are diversified away is not applicable here, with the Hedge Fund returns, in reality, representing a combination of superior management of market ine Read more:Hedge
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Hedge Funds Distressed Debt Securities 2008-03-08 10:25:02 Hedge Funds
& Distressed DebtHedge Funds
& Distressed Debt Securities
A company on the verge of declaring bankruptcy doesn’t sound like a great investment opportunity, does it? Hedge fund portfolio managers who know the ins and outs of distressed securities investing can make out money from the decimated portfolios. The idea is to purchase distressed securities at deep discounts in anticipation that the investment will be worth much more after a turnaround or change in market conditions. It has been noticed that in the recent years, many hedge funds have invested in distressed debt market securities. Much of the distressed debts consist of commercial and real estate loans originally made by companies, banks and other financial institutions, which are now in default, under ban Read more:Hedge
Hedge Fund Recruiters - Recruitment 2008-03-08 08:00:27 Hedge Fund RecruitersHedge Fund Recruitment
- A listing of Hedge Fund RecruitersI get emails each week from hedge fund professionals looking for new employment opportunities, and many of these are interested in contacting hedge fund recruiters who are focused on hedge funds. Below are my efforts towards compiling a list of top hedge fund recruiters that are dedicated to working with hedge fund professionals and alternative investment clients in general. If you are one of these please send me an email at Richard@RichardCWilson.com. If you need a hedge fund recruiter please choose one from the list below. I will be adding more hedge fund recruiters here each month.Top Hedge Fund Industry Recruiters:Marc Goormastic (President of Goormastic Executive Search, United States) - I recruit Sales Read more:Hedge
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Hedge Fund Investing 2008-03-07 05:19:44 Hedge Fund Investing
7 Tips for Successful Hedge Fund InvestingI just read an article a couple days ago that sounded like a similar one of mine you might have read called "How to Invest in Hedge Funds." This article was by Scott Frush and it covers the seven strategies for successful hedge fund investing. Here is his 7 tips for investing in hedge funds. None of the tips below are financial advice from myself or from the author of the article that I am summarizing below. 1. Do Your HomeworkSince hedge funds are not regulated by the SEC or government, it's up to you to research and evaluate a hedge fund before investing in it.2. Invest In Proven ManagersAlthough investing in a manager with an impressive past performance will not guarantee the same results, it is a good rule of thumb to fol Read more:Hedge
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Banks Hurting 2008-03-06 15:47:08 Banks HurtingBloomberg's list of banks who have written down assets through Q4 of 2007 and Q1 of 2008:1. Merrill Lynch - $24.5bn in write downs and credit losses2. Citi - $22.4bn3. UBS - $18.1bn4. HSBC - $17.2bn5. Morgan Stanley - $9.4bn6. IKB - $8.7bn7. Bank of America - $7.9bn8. Credit Agricole - $5.1bn9. Credit Suisse - $4.8bn10. Wachovia - $4.7bn11. CIBC - $4.2bn12. SocGen - $3.7bn13. Barclays - $3.2bn14. Mizuho Financial - $3.3bn15. JPMorgan Chase - $3.2bn16. Royal Bank of Scotland - $3.1bn17. Bayerische Landesbank - $2.9bn18. Dresdner - $2.7bn19. Bear Stearns - $2.6bn20. Deutsche Bank - $2.4bn21. Natixis - $1.8bn22. Fortis - $1.8bn23. Lehman Brothers - $1.5bn24. DZ Bank - $1.5bn 25. BNP Paribas - $1.2bn26. Nomura Holdings - $1bn- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email Or RSSRelated
Hedge Fund Speculation 2008-03-05 18:23:48 Hedge Fund SpeculationAre Hedge Funds Becoming More Speculative?Here is a question I recently received: "I recently heard that Hedge Funds have become so common of a financial instrument for institutions that they might not be providing the desired speculation. So the next generation of hedge funds must have to be more speculative, like a spec fund."There are a of hedge fund managers in the industry now, over 15,000. This means that average returns will fall a bit and the quality of managers overall will have a lower mean...but I do not think it forces most hedge fund managers to be more speculative, in fact I think it has the opposite effect. There is so much competition now among hedge funds that institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy are becoming more picky wanting to work with Read more:Hedge
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Largest Hedge Funds 2008-03-05 08:20:26 Largest HedgeFunds
The largest 2.3% hedge funds make up almost 50% of total hedge fund assetsA recent article by the FT noted that the top 350 hedge funds make up almost half of the $2 Trillion hedge fund industry. With 15,000 hedge funds in existence this means that 2.3% of all hedge funds make up almost 50% of total assets in hedge fund investments. At the same time almost 40% of all hedge funds have under $25 Million under management.Meredith Jones, managing director, said the slowdown in launches was a sign of the industry maturing. "In addition, the decrease in new fund launches reflects the asset flow trends in the industry since, in many cases, assets flow to larger established hedge funds and funds of funds, which is somewhat of a deterrent for new entrants into the marketplace."De Read more:Largest
Hedge Fund BullDog Fund Sues SEC 2008-03-04 06:19:33 Bulldog Sues SECPhil Goldstein of the Hedge
Fund, Bulldog Investors is suing the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) for its ban on hedge fund marketing and advertising.Phil Goldstein told the Financial Times: "We want to be able to have a website like any other business. The only websites required to pre-qualify people are hedge funds and pornography . . . gun shops are allowed to advertise, the Massachusetts state lottery is allowed to have a website. We want to be treated like any other business." "We are not asking regulators to be allowed to sell to unqualified investors. We are simply saying that they are not going to be harmed by getting the information," Mr. Goldstein said about his plan to make fund web sites available to all. "We have three options and suing the U.S. Securiti Read more:Hedge Fund
FSA Hedge Fund Investors 2008-03-01 16:05:35 FSA & Hedge
FundsFSA clears way for small investors - Telegraph: "The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to clear a path for widespread retail investment in hedge funds with a key policy statement expected as early as today."I'm hoping this decision does clear the way for small investors, as it may increase the pressure on the SEC to allow more individuals in the United States to invest in hedge funds.Don't know what the FSA is? Here is a short history of the FSA.- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSRelated Articles:1. Hedge Fund Strategies2. Hedge Fund Managers & Pedigree3. Hedge Fund Investments4. Download Hedge Fund Blog Book5. Multi-Family OfficesPermanent Link: FSA & Hedge Fund Investors
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Hurdle Rates Definition What is a Hurdle Rate? 2008-02-28 19:48:56 Hurdle Rate Definition
Hurdle Rate Definition: The minimum return necessary for a hedge fund manager to start collecting incentive fees. The hurdle is usually tied to a benchmark rate such as Libor or the one-year Treasury bill rate plus a spread. If, for example, the manager sets a hurdle rate equal to 5%, and the fund returns 15%, incentive fees would only apply to the 10% above the hurdle rate.Definition courtesy of HedgeCoAdditional Outside Hurdle Rate Resources:Hedge Fund Management and Performance Fees White PaperA Hedge Fund Primer (Includes details on Hurdle Rates
)Hedge Fund Overview - Includes Hurdle Rate Discussion- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSInternal Articles Related to "Definition of Hurdle Rate":1. Global Macro2. Alternative Investments Outperform3. Hedg Read more:Hurdle
Top 10 Most Influential Hedge Fund Leaders in 2008 2008-02-27 19:13:41 Top 10 Hedge
Fund Leaders
Who are the most powerful hedge fund professionals in the industry?I am currently my 1st annual poll to come up with a list of the top 10 most influential professionals within the hedge fund industry.These could be hedge fund managers, regulatory professionals, consultants, fund of hedge fund leaders, etc. Please send me your suggestions on who you think should be on this top 10 list and I'll re-publish this post next quarter with the results of votes I receive through this hedge fund blog, my hedge fund forum (HedgeFundMessageBoard.com) and the Hedge Fund
Group (HFG).To nominate or vote for your top 10 selections please send an email to Richard@RichardCWilson.com with your list of names and 1 sentence on why you think they deserve to be included within the list.
Hedge Fund Interviews - Interview Questions 2008-02-23 12:11:32 Hedge Fund InterviewHedge Fund Interviews
- Interview QuestionsEvery couple of months I do a short interview with a investment blog. It usually involves a short phone call or email exchange over some take out rather than the type of hype seen here in the picture to the left, but it is fun none the less. Thanks to TheAge for the picture. Here is the interview: Thank you for participating in the 2nd “insider’s” interview. The goal of this series is to pick the brains of insiders who deal with the business of money and to try to dig beyond the headlines. Tell me a little about yourself and what you do? My name is Richard Wilson and I am a hedge fund consultant and founder of the Hedge Fund Group (HFG). I work for a third party marketing firm and our job is to find new investors Read more:Hedge
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Advertise On This Hedge Fund Blog 2008-02-22 21:08:50 Advertise Here!Blog Traffic Statistics: During the last couple of months I have seen my hits to this blog content increase from only 1,500-2,000 visitors a day to now over 5,000 a day. Most of my website visitors find me through Google, the articles I write for other websites or the 1,600 person Hedge
Fund Group (HFG) that I started this last December. I plan on growing the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) to 15,000 members by the end of 2008. I have had fun networking and spending several hundred hours building the content for this blog and I will continue to do so until I have at least 3,000 articles completed (As of 2.22.08 I'm at 275 articles). I would like to find someone who finds my focus on hedge funds valuable and would be willing to advertise on my website.Why would I do this? To see Read more:Advertise
Hedge Fund Listings 2008-02-21 17:48:35 Hedge Fund ListingsImportant Note: This is not a up-to-date list, complete list or recommended list of hedge funds. It is simply a list put together by Investment Seek that I would like to reference here in hopes of aggregating these types of publicly available listings of hedge funds. AAbante Capital (South Africa) Abria Financial Group (Canada)Abria Trust, Abria A.G.A.I.N., Abria AACORN, Abria Notes Absolute Value Capital ManagementAbsolute Value Fund Adage Capital ManagementLaunched by Robert Atchinson and Phil Gross in 2001. Adam Smith Arbitrage and Venture Capital Hedge Fund Adelphi Management (United Kingdom) Advent Capital Management Advocate Asset Management Aequilibirum Investments (United Kingdom) Alliance Capital ManagementBernstein advanced value, Bernstein global diversified, Read more:Hedge
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New Hedge Funds: Hedge Fund Startups 2008-02-20 15:48:41 New HedgeFunds
There are somewhere between 15,000 and 19,000 hedge funds now in existence. Hundreds of new hedge funds are started each year and at least 10,000 are large enough to officially be noted within major databases and formal tracking systems."The hedge fund industry remains a very exciting space, and professionals that want to be in an autonomous environment are still very attracted to hedge funds," says Marc Bender, chief operating officer of EFX Capital.HFR data indicates that over 900 hedge funds were launched in 2007 alone while around 500 were liquidated. IDD notes that "This compares to 1,518 new funds in 2006 with 717 liquidations, and 2,073 launches and 848 liquidations in 2005, a record year. The pool of hedge funds in the almost-$2 trillion industry is around 10,000.""T Read more:Hedge Fund
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Institutional Investors Affected by Microsofts Bid for Yahoo 2008-02-19 16:56:49 MSFT > YHOOInstitutionalInvestors
Affected by Microsofts
Bid for Yahoo
I did an interview today with an editor from the E-Commerce Times, who was writing up a piece on how some institutional investors including hedge funds could be hurt by an ongoing battle by Microsoft to take over Yahoo. I never like to talk about individual securities within my hedge fund blog but this case the conversation related more to the realities of some arbitrage investment strategies than anything else. Before you build large positions within two leaders within an industry it is routine to consider any inter-firm or sector risk created by your choice of securities. "Microsoft may have confidence that some number of institutional shareholders with a stake in Yahoo want the bid to succeed but not at a higher pric
Hedge Fund Events, Seminars and Conferences 2008-02-19 10:23:05 Hedge Fund EventsUpcoming Hedge Fund Conferences
, Seminars
,Training Sessions and Non-Profit EventsI will be updating this page once a month with upcoming hedge fund seminars, training sessions, conferences and non-profit events. If you run a hedge fund conference or series of training or seminar sessions and are interesting in getting more exposure for your events please email me at Richard@RichardCWilson.com. In the near future there will also be opportunities to promote your hedge fund networking or training events through the growing Hedge Fund Group (HFG) and the monthly or quarterly announcements that will be going out to that group of hedge fund professionals, investors and consultants.Upcoming Hedge Fund Events (Updated 2.18.08)PEAK PERFORMANCE 2008: An exclusive trading psychology Read more:Hedge
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Banks More Risky Than Hedge Funds? 2008-02-18 16:13:19 Hedge Funds
or Banks?Recently some investors have been asking themselves which is more risky, hedge funds or banks? While hedge funds are sometimes define using the works "risky" and "highly leveraged" many are now making sure their prime brokerage business partners have enough cash on hand to do their job.“It is quite paradoxical,” said Angelos Metaxa, a director of CM Advisors, a $3bn [€2.05bn] Geneva-based fund of hedge funds. “In August, everyone was worried about a hedge fund blowing up, but now they are worried about a bank blowing up and taking a few hedge funds with it.”Here is the full article on this.- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSRelated Articles:1. Prime Brokers2. Hedge Fund Investments3. Fund of Hedge Funds
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Fund of Hedge Funds Trend 2008-02-15 05:47:18 Fund of Funds
On FireHFR reports that Fund of hedge funds now manage $1.3 trillion. This is up over 30% from last year defying skeptics and now accounting for half of the total hedge fund industry. In my fund of hedge funds article last October I talked about why this trend is still growing and probably won't stop any time soon. - RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email Or RSSArticles Related to "Fund of Hedge
Funds on Fire":1. Fund of Hedge Funds
2. Hedge Fund Prime Brokers3. 9 Hedge Fund Database Tips4. Hedge Fund Seed Capital5. Multi-Family / Family OfficesPermanent Link: Fund of Hedge Funds on Fire!Related Terms: Fund of Hedge Fund Asset Growth, Hedge Fund of Fund Industry Growth, Fund of fund growth rate, 2007 Hedge Fund of Funds
Hedge Funds Care 2008-03-12 18:50:50 Hedge Funds
Care Hedge Funds
Care Non-Profit OrganizationHedge Funds Care, a nonprofit organization, is one of the feel good stories in the investment world. Founded in 1998 by Rob Davis, Hedge Funds Care has the goal of helping prevent and treat child abuse. With the help of others in the hedge fund industry, the very first Open Your Heart to the Children benefit took place in February 1999 in New York. This initial benefit raised a whopping $542,000. Since that day, Hedge Funds Care has transformed into an internationally recognized organization raising as much as $24 million/year. In addition to events in New York, annual benefits will happen in San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Toronto, London, and the Cayman Islands to name a few.If you are interested in learni Read more:Hedge
Hedge Fund Training 2008-03-12 15:10:29 Hedge Fund Training
Hedge Fund Training OptionsThis page will be used to list online and in-person hedge fund training opportunities. Hedge Fund Training Option #1: Fitch Training - Hedge Funds A Credit PerspectiveComing Soon...Hedge Fund Training GuidesIf you are a a hedge fund training professional or are looking for something specific please send me an email at Richard@RichardCWilson.com- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email Or RSSArticles Related to "Hedge Fund Training"1. Risk Arbitrage Hedge Fund Strategy2. Hedge Fund Industry White Papers3. Benefits of Hedge Fund Investing4. Mechanism Design Theory5. Fund of Hedge FundsPermanent Link: Hedge Fund TrainingRelated Terms: Hedge Fund Training, Hedge Fund Training Videos, Hedge Fund Training Seminars, Hedge Fund Training Classes, Online Read more:Hedge
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Hedge Fund Movie 2008-03-12 06:13:35 Hedge Fund MovieHedge Fund Movie OpportunityI first connected with Laurence (that is Chris Gardner on the left) a few weeks ago and he told me about this opportunity for a hedge fund manager to be featured within a documentary. His group is looking for a hedge fund manager that invests in art or outperformed the market in 2007 using a contrarian long/short investing strategy. Please click on the image below for the full details, or send an email to Laurence.Crot@sagaproduction.ch.- RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSRelated Articles:1. Hedge Fund Performance - Finance Sector2. Family Offices Group3. Hedge Fund Managers4. Hedge Fund Industry White Papers5. Hedge Fund TrainingPermanent Link: Hedge Fund MovieRelated Terms: Hedge Fund Documentary, Hedge Fund Movie, Hedge Fund Vi Read more:Hedge
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Family Offices Group 2008-03-10 22:41:18 Family OfficesGroup
A bit after I started the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) i started the Family Offices Group. This is a network of single and multi-family offices and consultants who share resources, refer business and eventually will plan networking events surrounding the family offices and ultra high net worth advisers.Join The Family Offices GroupThe Family Offices Group website is FamilyOfficesGroup.com. The group is free to join and as of 3.10.08 has around 225 members. If you work directly for or with a family office of any type please join us by clicking on this link: - RichardSubscribe To this Blog via Email | Or RSSRelated Family Office Articles:1. Multi-Family Offices2. Family Office Hedge Fund3. Family Office Wealth Management4. What Are Family Offices?5. Hedge Fund ManagersPer Read more:Family
Hedge Fund Performance - Finance Sector 2008-03-09 10:10:37 Hedge Fund Performance
Hedge Fund Performance - Finance SectorHedge funds in the finance sector have performed dismally as one of only two hedge fund benchmarks to have a negative performance. A recent report by Hedge Fund Net shows that although finance sector hedge funds have not shown great numbers when compared to other hedge funds, they have “outperformed their closest benchmark by more percentage points than any other equity related hedge fund sector in the last twelve months.” Also, if you take into consideration the harsh conditions that exist in the finance sector—the housing bubble and the looming economic recession—these hedge funds have performed relatively well.The HFN data demonstrates that finance sector hedge funds have showed signs of improvement. Total assets have Read more:Hedge
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