Hedge funds grew in popularity in the years after the Enron Scandal (2002) raising record amounts of capital and all purporting to have that special trading methodology or investment discipline that would score higher than average returns based on their posted or stated benchmark indicator. Endowments, insurance companies, institutions, municipalities were all clamoring to make [...]
Entries from June 2009
Hedge Fund Outlook for 2009
January 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: Private Equity
The Other Shoe
January 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The new regime is now taking over and what a job Obama has in store for him. In fact, this is probably one of the most volatile handovers of power we have seen in our recent history. Having said that, what happens in Obama’s first 100 days of office will set the tone for the [...]
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2008 - Glad That is Over!
January 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This has been a decade of triumph, tragedy, happiness, sadness, glory and ruin. The decade is not over with and we have had more news worthy and momentous news items than the last 100 years put together. That is a bold statement but the millennium started off with a quick bang or better stated “pop” [...]
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