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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 30, 2007
Hedge fund registrants on decline

Hedge fund advisers opting to register with the SEC increased by only 1.5% this year.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 30, 2007
Citadel acquires Sowood portfolio

Citadel Investment Group LLC, one of the world's largest hedge funds, agreed to take over the credit portfolio of Sowood Capital Management LP.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2007
Fortress shares fall below IPO price

Shares of Fortress Investment Group LLC today dipped below the price at which the hedge fund and private-equity manager filed its initial public offering in February.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2007
Bear cashes out failed fund

Bear Stearns has seized the assets from one of its troubled hedge funds, according to published reports.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 27, 2007
Agus to helm Goldman's hedge fund

The head of Goldman Sachs’s equity proprietary trading desk will start a hedge fund inside the firm, said a report.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2007
Apollo founder looking at $3B stake

Leon Black could hold a stake worth $3 billion once the private equity firm sells part of itself to investors, the New York Post reported.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2007
Fortress closes two funds

Fortress Investment Group today closed a pair of funds with a final total of $5 billion in third-party commitments.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2007
FERC floats fines for Amaranth and traders

Amaranth Advisors LLC and a pair of its traders face $291 million in penalties for price manipulation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2007
Hedge fund manager pleads guilty

Former hedge fund trader Mark Lenowitz pleaded guilty to profiting from inside tips allegedly leaked by a former UBS executive.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2007
SAC considers stake sale

The $14 billion hedge fund manager run by billionaire Steven Cohen is considering selling up to 20% of itself in a private offering.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2007
Hunter faces heat from Amaranth mess

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed civil charges against Amaranth Advisors LLC and its ex-head energy trader Brian Hunter.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 23, 2007
Hedge funds inflows dip below 1Q

Hedge funds pulled in $58.7 billion in new flows during the second quarter, according to Hedge Fund Research.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 23, 2007
Correction

An article about Credit Suisse/Tremont hedge fund indexes revising performance data did not include a correct comparison of indexes.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 20, 2007
Robin Hood stops investing in rich

The Robin Hood Foundation said it would stop investing in its donors’ and board members’ hedge funds.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2007
Hedge index revises its numbers

The failing subprime mortgage market caused a hedge fund index to revise its performance returns.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2007
HFR unveils Asian indicies

Hedge Fund Research Inc. today introduced five new indices to track hedge fund performance in Asian markets.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 18, 2007
Bear Stearns hedge funds tapped out

Investors in Bear Stearns’ two failed hedge funds have lost their money and will probably not get it back, according to published reports.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 18, 2007
Downturn feared for credit derivatives

Global credit derivatives totals spiked 113% in 2006, but that streak is threatened by recent hedge fund disasters.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 16, 2007
Henderson sinks $1B into Asian real estate

London's Henderson Global Investors will launch a $1 billion fund focused on Asian real estate, according to a Financial Times report.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 16, 2007
Blackstone: Loophole report a 'myth'

Blackstone has slammed a story saying the private equity giant is using a loophole to get millions back in taxes.