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Hedge Funds Only Halfway Finished Dumping Assets

December 4, 2008

Hedge funds have a way to go before they’re finished unwinding positions, de-leveraging and freeing up enough cash to meet redemption requests, according to survey conducted by wealth management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. The survey, reported by FIN Alternatives, mentions that of 65 hedge fund managers overseeing $100 billion, 63% felt that the […]

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Hedge Fund Job Earnings Vary Significantly By Title

December 1, 2008

Compensation and bonus percentages for hedge fund professionals vary greatly depending on job title, responsibilities and experience, according to the just-published 2008 JobSearchDigest Hedge Fund Compensation Report. The highest earnings by title included Partner or Principal, Director, Portfolio Manager and CFO. We also heard from many respondents that their compensation is disconnected from their individual […]

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Russia Aiming to Be a Global Hedge Fund Center

November 27, 2008

We’ve written before about the influx of companies establishing offices in the Middle East, and how that region presents one of the few growth opportunities around the world in the current economic environment. Now, Reuters reports that one of Russia’s top performing hedge funds, Pharos Financial Group, has opened an office in the Dubai International […]

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Grateful to Have Hedge Fund Jobs

November 24, 2008

Given the current state of the economy and financial markets, many hedge fund professionals are pleased to still be in the business and generally satisfied with their overall compensation. That’s one of the findings revealed by our recently completed 2008 Hedge Fund Jobs Digest Compensation Survey. We received hedge fund compensation data directly from hundreds […]

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Experts Weigh in on Hedge Fund Job Hunting Advice

November 12, 2008

New York Magazine sent three candidates to recruitment experts for advice on landing a new job. One of them, Piyush Bhargava, was recently let go from Bear Stearns where he was on the firm’s credit-trading desk. He has a four-year engineering degree from India and a master’s degree in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon. His […]

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Hedge Funds Trying to Limit Redemptions

November 3, 2008

Dozens of hedge funds that once set the price of entry at $1 million to limit the number of investors participating in their funds are now trying to limit redemptions to keep their funds afloat, reports Reuters. Managers are looking at so-called “gate provisions” that limit withdrawals in an effort to stop the flood of […]

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Hedge Fund Squeeze Make VW Largest Company in World

November 3, 2008

In yet another anomaly of the current financial crisis, shares in Volkswagen more than quadrupled in a matter of days after automaker Porsche announced it had secretly acquired 7.41% of the company through a series of cash-settled options with a group of investment banks. With less than 6% of outstanding shares left in the market, […]

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