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Credit Suisse puts twist on hedge indexing

... weeks ago, provides retail investors with access to the Credit Suisse/Tremont hedge fund index of more than 5,000 hedge funds, and offers an option of daily investments and withdrawals, subject to maintaining the minimum balance of $25,000. The underlying ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... shares of Bear Stearns Cos and Goldman Sachs Group. Shares of Bear Stearns Cos, which last week bailed out one of its hedge funds that is heavily invested in subprime mortgages, dropped more than 3 per cent after a Merrill Lynch analyst said the brokerage ...

Economic round-up: Market shivers

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... high risk, mortgage market in the US hit a low last week as a group of Wall Street banks attempted to bail-out two hedge funds that suffered severe losses. Bear Stearns who is managing both funds will commit more of its own capital to try and recoup ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... Friday, wrapping up their worst week since a global sell-off in February amid fears that trouble at two Bear Stearns hedge funds may signal worse problems ahead for credit markets. Investors were rattled, also, by news that Democrats in the US Congress ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... yields sparked concerns about interest rates, a falling oil price struck energy stocks and the possible collapse of two hedge funds hit investment banks, overshadowing a robust profit from Morgan Stanley. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 146.00 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... yields sparked concerns about interest rates, a falling oil price struck energy stocks and the possible collapse of two hedge funds hit investment banks, overshadowing a robust profit from Morgan Stanley. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 146.00 ...

Investors extending their investment edge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... reflects the more lateral approach to investing now being adopted by fund trustees, following their wide adoption of hedge funds into mainstream investment thinking, said Craig Scholl, vice president of State Street Global Advisors. Conversely, said ...

Westpac structured equities team moves over to CommSec

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... four years and had helped the bank establish a strong presence in the market for protected loans, capital protected hedge funds and guaranteed portfolio investments. CommSec has a similar range of products but has not achieved much market penetration. ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... investors are slowly adapting the investment style of hedge fund managers to generate returns. "They are saying 'why have hedge funds done well?' and that's because they have fewer constraints, they use leverage cleverly and they constantly look for ...

Grange grows equities team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... of the Lehman Brothers group, has announced two senior equities appointments in a push to extend its equities and hedge funds capabilities. Paul Davenport joins Grange as managing director and head of equities hedge fund sales, Australia. He will primarily ...