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Journalists caught in dispute between hedge fund and insurer
Like all other journalists, financial reporters have to be wary that they are not being used. Everyone feeding them information has an agenda, and hedge funds have perfected the art of getting their message out via the press.
That brings us to the nasty dispute between Fairfax Financial, a Can
Some hedge funds buck trend, fare well
While the main hedge fund indexes are lagging the S&P 500 or running roughly even with it, some hedge funds have managed to differentiate themselves. A true accomplishment in a highly correlated environment. Reuters reports that Dan Loeb, Ray Dalio and Michael Hintze each have a fund that
Big challenge looms for Bair
The imminent collapse of Guaranty Bank, which will be the largest failure this year, is shaping up as a huge regulatory nightmare. Given its far flung operations and big balance sheet woes, a buyer is not likely to emerge.
Fortune says the clean up will be costly for the FDIC and it will n
Hedge fund turnarounds
We've noted the woes of James Simon's ailing RIEF recently. But for every story of a poorly performing fund, this year, there seems to be a success story. From a performance perspective, hedge funds fared better than most gave them credit for in 2008. Still, there are some who posted losses that h
Hedge funds line up behind Icahn on Yahoo
Yahoo may have been able to stare down Microsoft at the bargaining table, but we may yet see big M&A fees from a deal. The catalyst in all this remains Carl Icahn. Following his lead, an all-star cast of hedge funds managers have aligned themselves against Jerry Yang and Yahoo, which likel
