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TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group has agreed to buy hedge fund research firm Eurekahedge for about $25 million, in the latest move by Japan's second-largest bank to bolster its asset management business. Faced with weak loan demand in their home market, Mizuho and other Japanese banks have been trying to expand beyond commercial banking and into overseas markets, where they trail far behind Western rivals.
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NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC today released a new research paper, "Staying the Course: Q1 2010 Hedge Fund Update," that examines the current market environment and its effect on hedge fund returns in the first quarter. The hedge fund industry (as measured by the Credit Suisse/ Tremont Hedge Fund Index, the "Broad Index") continued its positive performance into 2010, returning 3.1% in the first quarter and outperforming equity and bond indices on a risk-adjusted basis. The report examines the current return drivers in the industry and explores some of the noteworthy trends that have characterized markets in recent months.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. settled legal disputes with a leading hedge fund and a research firm stemming from "regrettable" lawsuits by the drug maker claiming it suffered from a stock manipulation scheme. Canadian drug maker Valeant, which recently merged with Biovail Corp, agreed to pay, one of the world's largest hedge funds, $10 million plus some legal costs.
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LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - Lipper, a provider of investment research, data and information and the parent of Lipper HedgeWorld, has made a series of appointments to boost the company's overall research capability, steering it towards more customer-tailored research and the development of new research areas such as hedge fund and multi-asset research. The appointments follow the hiring of Gabriel Burstein, an ex-HSBC, Daiwa, and Goldman Sachs global macro, multi-asset, and hedge fund investment strategist, as Lipper's global head of research. I'm very much looking forward to working with my new colleagues," said Mr. Burstein. "Lipper has access to a treasure trove of fund data, and we shall be working closely with our clients to provide them with exclusive and distinctive research on mut...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The first half of 2011 has been humbling for many of the $2 trillion hedge fund industry's biggest stars, with the likes of,, andlosing money for their investors money while underperforming the major U.S. stock market indexes. At the year's half-way point, the average hedge fund was off 2.12 percent, preliminary data from Hedge Fund Research show. By contrast, the Standard & Poor's 500 gained 6 percent.
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DENVER (HedgeWorld.com) - The risk associated with hedge funds and hedge fundlike mutual funds - those using long/short or equity market neutral strategies - can in some cases be substantially lower than that attached to common types of mutual funds. That, at least, is the conclusion of a recent Lipper Research Series report into the role of hedge funds and hedge fund-like mutual funds in a portfolio. In order to examine how these types of funds compare with other traditional mutual funds as portfolio diversifiers, the research focused on their risk-measurement properties rather than on their activities or investing methods. The research uses the value-at- risk (VaR) measure, rather than standard deviation, to measure risk, considering the former as a superior measure where the main obj...
