Christine Williamson

Christine Williamson is a senior reporter at sister publication Pensions & Investments with a focus on money management and hedge funds. She tweets at: @Williamson_PI

Christine Williamson
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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES NOV 08, 2010
Hedge funds depend on beta as they ride careening equities

Hedge fund managers are having a hard time making a buck this year, unless they get a boost from a whole lot of market beta

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 04, 2010
Investors: One-in-three chance of a double-dip

The U.S. economy stands a 31% chance of double-dipping into recession in the next year.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS SEP 23, 2010
Experts see nearly 1-in-3 chance of double-dip recession

The U.S. economy stands a 31% chance of double-dipping into recession in the next year.

NEWS RIAS JUN 24, 2010
Investors in Gundlach's old TCW funds given choice of sticking or kicking

TCW Asset Management has given investors in its Special Mortgage Credits Fund I and II until Feb. 19 to decide whether to liquidate their investments.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES APR 11, 2010
Ivy Asset employees sensed end was near

The demise of Ivy Asset Management apparently had been anticipated for some months by its employees.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES MAR 08, 2010
J.P. Morgan tops rankings of largest hedge fund managers

A ranking of the world's largest hedge fund managers sharply illustrates the ravages the financial crisis wreaked on firms in the past two years

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES FEB 16, 2010
Hedge funds have best year since 1999

Hedge fund industry performance in 2009 was the best in a decade, according to Hedge Fund Research. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returned 20.04% for the year ended Dec. 31, the industry's highest since the 31.29% return of the index in 1999.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES OCT 08, 2009
Hedge funds on seven-month win streak, says HFR

Hedge funds produced positive returns for the seventh consecutive month in September, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index gaining 3.02% for the month, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 27, 2009
Funds of hedge funds are under the microscope

Institutional investors are examining every aspect of their fund-of-hedge-funds portfolios and the managers in charge of them in the wake of the performance debacle of 2008, liquidity problems and the seismic shock of Bernard L. Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 13, 2009
Renaissance may lift veil - a bit

Highly secretive Renaissance Technologies Corp., hit by performance problems and huge redemptions in its largest open hedge fund, may concede greater transparency in the strategy for large institutional investors.