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ETFS JUL 30, 2007
Claymore launches upscale ETF

Claymore Securities Inc. has launched an exchange traded fund designed to profit off of companies in the luxury goods-and-services market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ETFS JUL 26, 2007
Vanguard creates MSCI EAFE-based ETF

The new ETF tracks the Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe, Australasia and Far East index.

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.

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.

FIXED INCOME JUL 26, 2007
Cox calls for muni securities upgrades

SEC chairman Christopher L. Cox delivered Congress a "white paper" calling for upgrades to accounting and disclosure in the municipal securities market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 23, 2007
Morningstar reverses stance on board governance

PHILADELPHIA — Morningstar Inc., the mutual fund research company, is backing off its long-held position that fund boards that oversee multiple funds are less effective stewards than those responsible for just a few funds.

MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 23, 2007
Sentinel’s changing of the guard a way to get distributors’ attention

BOSTON — Say goodbye to the Green Mountain Boy. As part of an ambitious growth strategy designed to get its mutual funds noticed by distributors, Montpelier, Vt.-based Sentinel Asset Management Inc. is retiring its decades-old icon.

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.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2007
Hedge index revises its numbers

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

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.