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Big baby faces teething troubles
Suddenly, every one seems to be a hedge fund expert. Fund of funds managers, hedge fund analysts and new hedge fund managers have sprung up like mushrooms, drawn by the inexorable emergence of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that some believe seems set to evolve overnight. The omens are indeed promising. But, ...
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IMF taps hedge barometer
Hedge funds recorded on average modest returns on capital under management during 2000, outperforming most major market indexes. The number of hedge funds and, to a lesser extent, total capital under management has rebounded from the contraction of late 1998 and 1999. The limited available information suggests that the main ...
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Hedge behind a shelter
European companies doing business in the US have a fresh incentive to fund the supplemental pensions and deferred compensation promised to key employees while they are still working. Advance funding of these obligations has been unattractive to many corporate financial officers because the net investment returns, even if sheltered under ...
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Smaller cap fund's style
Every month in IPE we analyse the portfolio style of a fund using the return-based Portfolio Analyser developed by London-based firm Style Research. For this issue we have chosen the CCF/Fram Euro Smaller Companies fund, managed by Paris-based managers Framlington Unit Management. The fund invests in smaller companies in continental ...
