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  • Trade Like A Hedge Fund
    By: ameen kamadia | - Unless you have several hundred thousand dollars to invest, you can't get into a hedge fund. But there are ways that you can trade like a hedge fund and use the same tricks and strategies they use.

    The largest tool of the hedge fund is leverage. As individual investors we have the ability to have margin in our accounts. And with margin, we can buy $100 worth of stock with only $50. Hedge funds can buy $200-300 and more of stock for the same $50. That is how they are able to make t ...

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  • Cheyne Capital Appoints New Head Of International Sales And Distribution
    By: M Communications | - London based Hedge Fund Cheyne Capital, one of the largest alternative asset managers in Europe today announces the appointment of Max Nardulli as Head of International Sales and Distribution. In this newly created position, Nardulli will be responsible for the marketing of Cheynes diverse and expanding range of products globally including Cheynes new real estate debt, European event driven and equity macro offerings, excluding the United Kingdom.

    Nardulli joins Cheyne Capit ...

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  • What Is A Hedge Fund, Anyway?
    By: marciano guerrero | - What is a hedge fund?

    A hedge fund is an aggressively managed portfolio of securities set up for investors who have a net worth of over one million dollars. Investors who participate in a hedge fund must sign a letter of agreement specifying that they are knowledgeable investors and that they are aware of the risks.

    The hedge fund managers use advanced strategies to maximize the return on investment to the fund. The strategies employ highly leveraged positions inlong a ...

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  • Up Your Trading Iq Via Investing Courses
    By: Matt kaldor | - Investors who watched their portfolios, pension funds, and mutual funds dwindle, with no ability to protect themselves, are turning in masses to stock market education providers to up their trading IQ.

    Individual investors who had previously invested their money with financial organizations like hedge funds and mutual funds are increasingly looking to manage their own money. Investors who are looking to manage their own investments can take courses on the stock market to become t ...

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  • How To Get Started Investing With A Long Short Fund
    By: Jamie Hanson | - Are you ready to make some money in the stock market? If so, you may want to consider investing in a long short fund rather than a traditional mutual fund. The reason why is because you will be better protected through the bull and bear markets not to mention you will likely have a better return on your investment over the long run. If you have heard about the benefits of a long short fund then you may want to invest in one but are wondering how to get started. There are actually several options ...
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  • Long Short Fund Overview
    By: Jamie Hanson | - Are you an investor interested in diversifying your portfolio? If so, then perhaps you will want to consider adding a long short fund to your investments. Basically, the long short fund is a mix between a mutual fund and hedge fund. The biggest difference is that the long short fund mutual fund offers daily liquidity and charges no performance fee. The use of short positions, leverage, and derivatives give the long short fund an advantage over other types of investments.

    Of course, ...

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  • What's The Long Short Fund All About?
    By: Jamie Hanson | - If you are an investor you may have heard about the long short fund and are wondering what it's all about. It's natural you would be interested because it is being touted as the new way to invest in the stock market. So far, the long short fund method of investment has been successful and many investors are pleased with this method. However, there are no guarantees when it comes to investing and investors should not get confused with the potential success of this fund with "guaranteed" success. ...
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  • Long Short Fund Description
    By: Jamie Hanson | - It's always interesting to learn more about new investing strategies and to give various methods a try to see their returns. One particular strategy is the long short fund strategy. This particular strategy is one that combines two types of investments, both long and short, to limit exposure and risk. The goal involves picking a variety of stocks with both long and short positions to include in the fund. The long positions are expected to improve their value while the short positions are expecte ...
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  • Long Short Fund Basics
    By: Jamie Hanson | - The long short fund is simply a mutual fund that uses hedge fund trading strategies. The difference of long short funds versus the average mutual fund is that they use short positions to maximize returns no matter what the market conditions are. There are laws that control how many short positions and derivatives may be used in a long short fund, so there are controls governing how successful these funds can be. The majority of investments in a long short fund are in stocks so there are certainl ...
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  • The Successful Long Short Fund
    By: Jamie Hanson | - The success of the long short fund is not guaranteed however knowing what the overall objective is and how to gauge its success is very important. There are three basic goals that any long short fund should have. Those include making the fund less volatile with fewer overall fluctuations than other mutual funds. The next goal is for the long short fund to have a better rate of return than other stocks have historically had. The last goal is to provide investors with capital preservation as well ...
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  • What Are Your Etf Trading Strategies ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - ETF Trading , just like any other form of trading requires few skills and knowledge. But your trading experience can also be improved with a good strategy. Here are few ETF strategies you may or not know about.

    An Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) is a form of investment portfolio made up of many investments that characteristically trade like stocks. The American stock exchange is where ETFs are mainly found to be traded on.

    It holds an assortment of securities that are intend ...

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  • Get The Most Out Of Portfolios With Investing And Commodities Trading
    By: Jay Ramey | - Alternative Investments, also known as Hedge Funds , were originally developed to allow an investor to both purchase and short sell equities. There are many categories of alternative investments to include managed futures. Finding and researching alternative investments, like managed futures, is a challenge for investors because it is difficult to determine precise returns, and it is also difficult to assess the returns, even when alternative investments are entirely transparent.
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  • Consider A Cta Managed Fund For Balanced Asset Allocation
    By: Dwayne Strocen | - You might be wondering what a CTA is. A CTA is a Portfolio Manager for derivative products such as foreign exchange, commodities or futures. If you're familiar with traditional mutual funds or hedge funds, you'll know the investment decisions are made by a specialist in stocks or bonds. These are also called equity and fixed income products.

    An equity fund is managed by an equity Portfolio Manager known as a CFA and a bond fund is managed by a fixed income Portfolio Manager also ...

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  • Smart Exchange Traded Fund (etf) Strategies
    By: Ted Brumby | - Different investment strategies for ETFs that involve being bundled, shorted, optioned, hedged or otherwise can be utilised when including them in your investment portfolio. In short, Exchange-Traded Funds trade in the same manner as shares, but are built like a managed fund. ETFs can be an excellent addition to individual portfolios for long-term gains by generally following the simplest investment strategies.

    ETFs were introduced into the Australian market in 2001 and after years ...

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  • A New Anthem Of The Investors!
    By: Dealer Dan | - Latest evidence explains that more and more corporations are understanding the magnitude and inevitability of quality management if they are to subsist domestic and world wide competition. It is very true that no quality improvement can thrive without managements attachment and commitment. Anything that puts an end to the bothering is a welcome change. A change that can revolutionize the entire prospective of the organization is most welcome.

    Now, this is where the express ...

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  • Hedge Fund News: Positive December for Equities and Hedge Funds Shared By: amaniMONEY - Hedgeco Archives – Hedge funds and equity markets are likely to continue their momentum heading into the end of the year and lead to additional gains...

  • Archstone appoints SS&C Fund Services for fund administration | Hedgeweek Shared By: offshorelawfirm - “SS&C welcomes Archstone to our significant and growing list of fund of hedge funds administration clients,” chairman and chief...

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  • Top 10 Hedge Fund Marketing Mistakes Shared By: imakewebsiteswk - Our team provides over 1,600 hedge funds a year with capital raising advice, resources and products. Our team has also helped raise hundreds of...

  • Long/short equity hedge fund sector fell short in November | Hedgeweek Shared By: HedgeFundRisk - Long/short equity hedge funds underperformed most global equity markets as managers maintained relatively neutral exposure to equity markets and many...

  • StreetInsider.com - The Archstone Partnerships Appoints SS&C Fund Services Shared By: HedgeFundRisk - WINDSOR,... services, today announced The Archstone Partnerships, a multi-strategy funds of hedge funds manager with US$ 4.7 billion in assets under...

  • Adviser focus: Andy Gadd | News | Fund Strategy Shared By: fundstrategy - “Certain funds can use derivatives and can short markets to hedge and/or make money from falling markets, but who says that these trades will actually...

  • Hennessee: Hedge Funds Up 1.8% In Nov. | FINalternatives Shared By: offshorelawfirm - “We believe the... rather than multiple expansion,” the Hennessee Group’s Charles Gradante said. “This would be a better environment for hedge funds,...

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  • Headstart Settles 2003 Dispute With The Sec
    By: M Communications | - Headstart Fund Ltd, Headstart Advisers Ltd, an FSA-regulated hedge fund adviser and Mr Najy Nasser, its Chief Investment Officer, today announces they have settled their dispute with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to Headstart's historic involvement in market-timing from which it disengaged in September 2003 prior to re-focusing on its other trading strategies. This will allow Headstart to concentrate on its core business as an investment adviser to offshore hedge ...
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  • Basic Constituent Parts Of Hedge Funds
    By: Anna Stenning | - As in the gambling term 'hedging', the financial investment class of hedge funds aim to spread the risk of investing by buying up assets in a broad range of areas. By careful selection of appropriate assets, if one asset dips in value, another rising asset should make up for the loss and more). Of course, it doesn't always turn out that way - but hedge funds have been a profitable investment method since they came about in 1949.

    This article looks at the various features of hedge ...

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  • Would You Be Able To Trade As A Hedge Fund Manager Does?
    By: Robert Shime | - Amateur traders do not have the skills like a professional trader does. Amatuers trade on emotions, while professionals avoid it. Hedge fund managers are professionals, learn from them if you want to follow in their footsteps. You see hedge fund managers have to show good results to their investors for getting investments into their funds. Hedge fund managers have to convince their clients with a battle tested strategy.

    As singular traders, our $30,000 trading financial credit is ...

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  • Hedge Funds. What Are They?
    By: Tug Search | - Hedge funds have been around since the fifties but only grew in popularity in the 1960s. With big names like George Soros and Michael Steinhardt, fund management gained a high profile within the investment community and beyond. During this time, what didn't gain quite the exposure was what a hedge fund actually did.

    Hedge funds are very similar to mutual funds except for fewer regulations and therefore can invest in a broad range of investments including shares, debt, commodities ...

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  • Hedge Funds: An Under The Radar Crisis
    By: Steve Selengut | - The other day, with the market giving up about a third of its March gain in DJIA points, I went looking through my favorite market stats to see if any remaining profits could be pounced upon. Typically, profit possibilities can be identified quickly on NYSE lists of the largest dollar and percent gainers.

    Alarmingly, 75% of the largest percent gainers were ETFs, and many of those operate using the same strategies as classic hedge funds--- most owned no common stock at all! At the ...

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  • High Risk Investment Pool For Wealthy Professionals
    By: Anna Stenning | - Dictionary definitions of a hedge fund include; a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is 1 million dollars); can use high-risk techniques or A hedge fund is a private, largely unregulated pool of capital whose managers can buy or sell any assets, bet on falling as well as rising assets, and participate substantially in profits from money invested. It charges both a performance fee and a management fee.

    I have no prior k ...

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  • Your Personal Guide To Mutual Funds Investing
    By: Jeffrey Fang | - A mutual fund is, in essence, a pool of money from several investors that is managed by a professional money manager or "Fund Manager" for a fee. Granted, that's a simplistic description for a complex type of security but from an investor's perspective, it's a pretty accurate definition. By investing in mutual funds, you can put expert money managers to work to help you achieve your financial goals, whether you're saving for retirement, planning for your children's education or saving for any s ...
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  • Automated Trading Systems & Automated Trading Strategies
    By: Mira Williams | - Dealing in foreign currency is not a static indulgence but the most dynamic trading business that will need you to understand, appreciate and be aware of even the smallest changes that seem to keep happening all the time.
    The rate of a particular foreign currency is a direct reflection of the economic well being of that country. Obviously, this is again dependent on hundreds of different regional, political, and geographical factors. Practically, it is not possible to keep a track of ever ...

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  • Algorithmic Trading Systems
    By: Mira Williams | - Algorithmic trading essentially involves breaking up of different trading orders, and these are processed by software robots. The processing of the trade orders by the software can vary as per requirement of the user, or according to the complexity of the process. This could be as simple as allocating pre-determined order status to certain trade orders, or even taking a decision on a particular situation, as per preset sequential data. For instance, a trading decision of selling or buying may be ...
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  • How Should Hedge Funds Be Allocated In Todays Market
    By: Tom Burroughes | - And acccording to Ted Wilson, consultant at Scorpio Partnership, as hedge funds become more commoditised as an asset class, net of fees they often do not provide a better return than more conventional investments:

    The high net worth herd has in some ways moved on from hedge funds, although they still have a place in a balanced portfolio. Family offices are now looking to tracker-type investments for beta and to smaller, limited access long-only investments for alpha, which althoug ...

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  • Forex Trading - What Is It All About
    By: Ranju Kumar | - Forex Trading is nothing but earning huge money. As the forex market changes daily, some investors have found it quite easy to make a big money from it. Foreign exchange market is also called as Forex. Forex Market is also referred as FX in online and offline business. Often, you will be able to purchase different types of stocks, bonds and investments through a broker or a financial institution. So, forex trading always takes place through brokers or a financial institution.

    Th ...

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  • What Are Hedge Funds?
    By: Nicholas Swezey | - Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds but with several important differences. First, hedge funds are private funds that are typically only open to wealthy, experienced investors. Second, these funds generally take on higher risk using a variety of strategies with the goal of gaining a higher return than mutual funds. Third, hedge funds are not regulated by the U.S. government, giving them more flexibility but less transparency to the public.

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  • Running Multi Strategies In A Macro Trading Portfolio
    By: David Taggart | - Macro trading is one of the most flexible trading styles in existence. As a macro trader your job is to focus on the best risk to reward opportunities you can find regardless of whether that opportunity is in domestic fertilizer companies or in Namibia government bonds. The idea is that it is important to cast a wide net so that you can find the best opportunity.

    This of course brings us to running multiple strategies. This benefits you in several different ways. Using multiple ...

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  • A Unique Investment Strategy For Mutual Fund Investors
    By: brain strom | - Hedge funds are becoming very popular in the news with the gurus clamoring for increased regulation and the chicken littles sounding the market crash alarm. Hedge funds are private investment organizations that uses a different strategies protecting wealth from risks of volatile markets. It uses an unconventional investments to makeup losses when the market turns sour. They generally have a very different investment policies as compared to any mutual fund. Hedge funds tend to be more philosop ...
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  • Hedge Funds In India
    By: bharat book bureau | - Bharatbook.com added a new report on "Hedge Funds in India" (http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=81429)

    It focuses in detail about the global hedge fund market, the types of hedge funds prevalent in the industry and the size and growth of it. Additionally, the report covers the opportunities and challenges faced by the industry.

    The report will enumerate the industry regulations followed in different countries and its effects on the hedge fund industry. This is ...

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  • Hedge Fund Marketing
    By: Redalkemi Syndicate | - A hedge fund manager and/or any person acting on its behalf may not solicit an investment into a hedge fund through any type of general solicitation" or general advertisement" under Section (c) of Regulation D.

    Therefore hedge fund managers rely upon hedge fund advisory services to introduce capital and distribute hedge funds directly to qualified clients. The methods vary by which information can be disseminated. Traditionally, networking was the preferred means of doing busine ...

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  • Hedge Fund Jobs Hiring Trends Spring 2008
    By: IC | - There are many hedge funds that are continuing to look for great people and hiring due to the overall uncertainty in the larger market hedge funds by their very nature are constantly dealing with variables in the market place and leveraging these discontinuities to find valuable deals. So, tough or difficult markets are not always bad for them, as there are still great deals to be found. Meaning, many of these firms are looking for hedge fund candidates who can work in a very vibrant market. ...
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  • Great Rewards With Hedge Fund Investments
    By: Jona | - A hedge fund investment offers an alternative strategy for the more aggressive investor to branch out on the road to untold wealth. In order to amass huge fortunes, the savvy hedge fund investor may risk considerable losses. Hedge funds use flexible strategies to create lucrative returns from pooled resources.

    Hedge funds trade and invest in a variety of markets including currency, securities, and commodities. A hedge fund investment earned its name from safe guarding your investm ...

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  • Making Exchange Traded Funds (etfs) Work For You
    By: Bill Byrnes | - Exchange traded funds are index funds which have advantages over open-end index mutual funds. ETFs trade all day long on the stock exchanges, may be purchased through any broker, have lower fund expenses than mutual funds, and have less likelihood of generating unwanted taxable gains than mutual funds.

    There are a number of reasons, which we'll discuss, for investing in index funds (Exchange Traded Funds or mutual funds) but let's start with the fact that the S&P 500 index beat ...

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  • What Is The Forex Market?
    By: Andrew Daigle | - The Forex market, established in 1971, was created when floating exchange rates started to materialize. It relates to the foreign exchange market, where brokerage firms and banks are linked over an electronic network that allows them to exchange the currencies of countries around the globe. The Forex market is not centralized, like in currency, futures or stock markets. Trading occurs over computers and phones at thousands of locations globally.

    The Foreign Exchange market, usuall ...

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  • Indexing For Passive Aggressive Investors
    By: Bill Byrnes | - Let's dispel the notion once and for all that index funds are only for passive investors. Sure, the original index funds tracked the S&P and were meant for investors who either believed you couldn't beat the market or didn't want to try.

    Since their beginning, index funds have expanded their breath. You can find a fund which tracks any of the major indices and most industry sectors, such as health care and technology. The first cousin of index funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETF ...

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  • Hedge Funds Under Increasing Scrutiny In The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
    By: Robert Masud | - The hedge fund industry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will come under greater regulatory scrutiny according to Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is the chief securities regulatory. This past January Glavin filed a civil complaint against Bulldog Investors and Phillip Goldstein, among other connected parties (collectively, the Respondents'). The civil complaint alleges Respondents failed to adequately restrict online access to information about the Respondents hedge fund ...
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  • How To Profit From A Market Correction: Diversified Trading Strategies
    By: Richard Cochrane | - What happened to the stock markets these past two weeks?

    Anyone at all involved in investing or trading no doubt personally experienced it- the stock markets went through a major correction! And in these days of the "World Economy" such a correction can be triggered by news from anywhere in the world. As it did this time. Poor economic news from China prompted a sharp world decline in stock prices in just a few days.

    And many investors, especially long term invest ...

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  • Stock Research Hedge Fund Fraud Leads To $160 Million Bear Stearns Settlement
    By: Richard Stoyeck | - It was announced recently that a Federal Bankruptcy court judge ordered Bear Stearns, one of America's top tier trading firms to pay $160 million to investors who lost money with a hedge fund that cleared through Bear Stearns. While doing stock research on publicly traded brokerage corporations, we came across the settlement. This spurred us on to thinking, what does this mean for the everyday investor, and what does it mean for stock research in general. Here's the real story.

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  • What Are Hedge Funds?
    By: Ken Charnly | - Hedge funds can be described as pooled investment vehicles that use flexible strategies in order to generate returns while at the same time, preserving capital by hedging against market declines. Considered an alternative investment fund, a hedge fund trades and invests in various assets such as securities, currency, commodities and derivatives on behalf of its clients who are typically wealthy individuals.

    Hedge funds are normally set up as limited partnerships where the fund man ...

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  • Comparing Hedge Funds
    By: Ken Charnly | - There are many choices to consider when you are planning on investing your money. In years past, hedge funds were reserved for wealthy and sophisticated investors. Now almost anyone can buy into the hedge fund type of investment opportunities. The choices you have available in hedge funds are as diverse as those in other types of investments.

    Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds; however they are restricted to the private sector. They do not include any publicly offered s ...

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  • Which Hedge Funds
    By: Ken Charnly | - In years past hedge funds were primarily reserved for sophisticated and wealthy investors. Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds because they are both pooled investment strategies that collect money from a group of investors that then invest that money collectively. Hedge funds do not have to register with the SEC because they only take investments from private parties, and the money collected is not invested in publicly offered securities.

    To take advantage of hedge funds, fi ...

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  • Suitable Hedge Funds
    By: Ken Charnly | - Hedge funds are ways in which individuals can invest money in untraditional and alternative methods with the hopes of getting a high return. Figuring out if hedge funds are a good idea for individuals can be a tricky matter for a number of people. The suitable hedge funds for one person might be different when it comes to another, so it is important to determine the qualities of an individual, as this will be most imperative when it comes to finding the best types of hedge funds for them.

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  • Hedge Fund Advisers Will Continue To Register Despite Court Decision To Strike Down Sec Rule
    By: Stephen Furnari | - Copyright 2006 Stephen Furnari

    Small, independent hedge funds were given a boost on Friday by a favorable court decision that struck down a controversial rule requiring hedge funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Notwithstanding the decision, many fund advisers are expected to continue to register voluntarily in order to attract and retain institutional investors.

    In 2004, the SEC amended one of the key exemptions fund advisers relied on to ...

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