Bedrock Rolls Out Multi-Strat Fund of Funds
FINalternatives- Bedrock Alternative Asset Management in May launched its Global Diversified Fund, a fund of funds covering private equity, hedge funds, real estate and commodities, combined with...
View ArticleMorningstar Hedge Fund Report, July 2008
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Hedge funds saw their worst monthly performance in the history of the Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index. The index returned a negative 3.07% in July 2008, an eventful...
View ArticleHedge funds Down in August
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index lost 3.12% in August, significantly underperforming U.S. and global equity and bond markets. August, like July, was characterized...
View ArticleHedge Fund Performance for the Third-Quarter Lowest Since 2003
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morningstar, Inc. reported that hedge funds reported the worst losses in the Morningstar Hedge Fund Index’s history, which began in January 2003. In September, the...
View ArticleInvestors Flee Boone Pickens’ Hedge Fund: Report
CNBC – About half of the investors in T. Boone Pickens’ energy-oriented equity hedge fund have asked to withdraw their money on the heels of losses of about 60 percent this year, the Wall Street...
View ArticleCopycat Selling Maroons Investors as Hedge Funds Cash In
Motley Fool – What does the turmoil in the hedge fund world mean to most investors? Losses and more losses. Over the past few weeks, the forced deleveraging of the industry, combined with redemptions...
View ArticleMorningstar Hedge Fund Analysis For November
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Morningstar presented their monthly analysis of hedge fund performance for November and asset flows through October. "Hedge funds have a long path to recovery ahead of...
View ArticleIsrael Girlfriend Pleads Not Guilty to Aiding Escape
Bloomberg - Debra Ryan, the girlfriend of Samuel Israel, the convicted founder of hedge-fund firm Bayou Group LLC charged with bail jumping, pleaded not guilty to helping him escape. Israel, 49, is...
View ArticleGirlfriend of hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel, accused of trying to send...
Union-News & Sunday Republican – The girlfriend of hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III, already accused of helping him skip out on a prison sentence, tried to send him $300 in jail, officials...
View ArticleLehman judge, James Peck, charged with hitting wife gets lawyer
New York Daily News – A federal judge charged with slapping his wife hired a big shot defense attorney as he faces a misdemeanor charge that could land him in the clink. James Peck, 63, the bankruptcy...
View ArticleHedge funds manager’s girlfriend pleads guilty to helping him flee
CNN.com – The girlfriend of a convicted hedge fund manager who disappeared last year, leading to speculation that he had committed suicide rather than report to prison, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to...
View ArticleSamuel Israel Competent to Plead Guilty
HedgeFund.Net – Samuel Israel III, the Bayou Group founder who led the FBI on a merry chase after failing to show up to serve his prison term, has recovered sufficiently to plead guilty to escape, a...
View ArticleU.S. Fund Swindler Pleads Guilty to Jumping Bail
Reuters – Jailed Bayou hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel pleaded guilty on Monday to jumping bail in an episode in which he faked his own suicide last year in an attempt to avoid going to prison....
View ArticleIOSCO to outline new role of regulators at conference
Jerusalem Post – While the recent G-20 summit in London provided world financial leaders with the opportunity to begin charting a path of recovery for the ailing global economy, the work to build the...
View ArticleBayou Hedge Fund Exec Sentenced
North Country Gazette – The brother of the former chief financial officer of the bankrupt hedge fund firm Bayou Group LLC has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison of his role in concealing a...
View ArticleHedge funds to face more scrutiny after Europe squeeze
Wealth Bulletin – Regulators will this week agree broad principles for clamping down further on hedge fund managers, after the European Commission proposed more draconian constraints on their...
View ArticleIsrael’s girlfriend sentenced to 3 years probation
Stamford Advocate – Debra Ryan, the girlfriend of Samuel Israel, convicted for his role in a $400 million fraud involving the collapse of Stamford-based hedge-fund firm Bayou Group LLC, was sentenced...
View ArticleJudge could give hedge swindler more than 18 months for skipping out on prison
Chicago Tribune – The judge who is sentencing hedge-fund swindler Samuel Israel III for skipping out on prison may want to make an example of him. Israel admitted in March that he faked his suicide and...
View ArticleSwindler pays for faking death
The London Free Press – A hedge-fund swindler who faked his own death in an effort to skip out on a 20-year prison term was sentenced yesterday to two extra years. Federal Judge Kenneth Karas said...
View ArticleBedrock Rolls Out Multi-Strat Fund of Funds
FINalternatives- Bedrock Alternative Asset Management in May launched its Global Diversified Fund, a fund of funds covering private equity, hedge funds, real estate and commodities, combined with...
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