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Hedge funds face light redemption requests
As performance wavered, recent conventional wisdom has been that hedge funds are taking a close look at investment, pondering whether they should pull the redemption trigger as deadlines for such requests loom. But there are signs that the hedge fund industry dodged a bullet this year.
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Gundlach trail end with mixed verdict
The normally genteel world of mutual funds was shaken by the courtroom showdown pitting star fixed income manager Jeffrey Gundlach against his former employer Trust Company of the West.
The decision Friday allows both sides to claim victory. Gundlach and three other co-defendants were awarded
Witch hunt ends at Eliot Management
This story is fraught with PR lessons. Recall that hedge fund Eliot Management, run by Paul Singer, embarked on a widely publicized, self-described "witch hunt" in search of the employee, investor or whoever it was that leaked a memo containing confidential performance numbers to the hedge fund ma
Power shifts to private equity LPs
When it comes to alternative investing, we've been talking for a while now about how the power pendulum has swung to limited partners, but the discussion has been heavily focused on hedge funds. However, the same trend holds generally true for private equity funds, according to a report by Preqin,
Endowments setting the trend these days?
So-called super endowments, epitomized by the Harvard and Yale endowments, have really turned heads in the asset management world as of late. Super endowments have bet big on alternative assets to spectacular results. Harvard's endowment is up 20 percent from the start of 2007. Yale's endowment ro
