New
Exotic Focus For Hedge Funds: Uranium Market
WSJ
In a new type of nuclear-arms race, hedge funds and other
institutional investors in search of higher returns are competing
with energy companies to amass scarce fuel-grade uranium,
hoping to profit from revived interest in nuclear power.
Carbon
funds eye U.S. market, risks too Reuters
Carbon trading under the Kyoto Protocol, worth $3 billion
(1.54 billion pounds) last year, allows rich countries to
buy permits called carbon credits to emit greenhouse gases
from poor nations, and is attracting investors eyeing fat
margins.
Lose
Your Home, Hedge Funds Win CNBC
Hedge funds profit by speculating on asset backed indexes.
When homeowners default on mortgages or are delinquent on
payments, prices of mortgage backed securities fall, but a
short position in the asset backed securities index gains
value. Due to leverage, huge gains have been made using this
strategy.
Goldman
fund takes bet on catastrophes eFinancialNews
Goldman Sachs’ $10bn (€7.7bn) internal hedge fund
has started trading in catastrophe risk, a growing market
that is attracting new investors because of the high insurance
premiums triggered by Hurricane Katrina. Hedge funds like
reinsurance risk because it is almost uncorrelated to equity
markets. Last year investors bought about $9bn of disaster-related
instruments to bet on there being fewer catastrophes.
A
New Hedge Fund Strategy--Art The Stalwart
Just when you thought that hedge funds had run out of ideas
and arbitrage opportunities, managers are finding new areas
to speculate in.
Aircraft
Leasing Ezinearticles
Leasing has become a common technique to acquire an aircraft,
since this asset has become expensive and always subject to
a variety of laws and regulations.
Startup
firm allows homeowners to tap equity without payments Investmentnews
The firm will give a consumer cash representing up to 15%
of their home’s value in exchange for a cut of up to
52.5% of the capital appreciation when the property is sold.
CME
to launch hurricane futures The Associated Press
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest derivatives exchange
in the United States, announced Wednesday that it is launching
contracts that will allow insurers and others to hedge risk
against hurricane damage.
As
Investors Covet Ethanol, Farmers Resist The New York Times
Farmers do not see fast money very often. But with big profits
gushing forth from ethanol plants, dozens of Wall Street bankers,
in loafers and suits, have been descending on the cornfields
of the Midwest promising to make thousands of farmers rich
overnight.
Hedge
fund firm Aramid eyes European films Reuters
Hedge funds, which together run up to $1.7 trillion (860 billion
pounds) of assets around the world, have been branching out
into new areas like movie-making, moving beyond their traditional
strongholds of trading securities and betting on economic
trends. List of Hedge
Funds Financing Films
Currency
Trading By Hedge Funds Booming
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Currency trading by hedge funds is set
to push overall daily turnover in global foreign exchange
as high as $4 trillion within the next two to three years,
according to a report by research and consultancy firm Celent.
List of Forex Hedge Funds
Hedge
bets on DVD distribution Variety's Festivals & Markets
London-based hedge fund Marwyn Investment Management said
it wants to set up a distribution company spanning Europe
and North America, kicking off with a $160 million deal to
acquire Toronto-based DVD distribber Entertainment One.
Hedge
Funds Seen Targeting Restaurants Associated Press
Applebee's International Inc.'s announcement that it will
consider a sale of the company highlights the growing influence
hedge funds are having on the restaurant industry.
Convertible
arbitrage top hedge fund strategy in 2006 Globe and Mail
Convertible arbitrage -- the simultaneous purchase of a portfolio
of convertible bonds, while selling short the corresponding
equity shares -- was a strategy out of favour and cheaply
priced early in 2006.
Insight
into biggest and riskiest of hedge-fund strategies The Financial Times Ltd
Brevan Howard's attempt to raise up to €1.5bn (£1bn)
for the first hedge fund to list on London's main market has
given investors an unprecedented view of the inner workings
of one of the biggest and riskiest strategies followed by
hedge funds. The London-based Brevan Howard invests mainly
in a "global macro" style, where managers take huge
bets on the movements of interest rates and foreign exchange.
CDO
Surge Squeezes Deutsche Bank, Vanguard Bond Funds Bloomberg
Credit derivatives, the fastest- growing business on Wall
Street, are squeezing returns for bondholders to an all-time
low. Contracts that protect investors against defaults are
being sold in record numbers and then bundled into securities
known as collateralized debt obligations. CDOs are driving
down the cost to protect against non-payment so much that
even the government of Argentina, which reneged on $95 billion
of debt five years ago, is paying less than ever to borrow.
Another
hedge fund edges down the private equity route AltAssets
The TriAlpha Oceana Concentrated Opportunities Fund will invest
in both public and private global equities with individual
investments accounting for as much as 25 per cent of the fund’s
capital. A maximum of 50 per cent will be invested in private
or illiquid investments and the fund is expected to have a
seven-year life.
Private
funds eyed for WTC site CNN Money
Report says government agency is talking to private equity
firms, hedge funds to take stake in $3 billion 'Freedom Tower'
that will replace twin towers.
Wine
and Hedge Funds wine-community
Aside from the hedge fund millionaires investing in the land
rich wine making lifestyle, a new trend is now being seen
among hedge fund investors in the buying of premium wines.
Real
estate investors branch into hedge funds Christine Haughney
Unable to expand their holdings by purchasing increasingly
expensive office buildings, traditional buyers of Manhattan
real estate are launching hedge funds to invest in publicly
held real estate-related companies. List of Real
Estate Hedge Funds
Hedge
Funds & Loan Markets SS&C Technologies
At one time all the lending business was dominated by the
big banks, which have always been highly regulated with special
care taken in separating the different lines of businesses
they participated in. On the other hand hedge funds, which
typically do not encounter such strict regulatory management,
are generally smaller than banks and thus have fewer information
barriers in place.
US
Fund To Invest $35M In Brazil Biodiesel Project Dow Jones
U.S. farmland investment group Global Ag Investments LLC is
getting in on the biodiesel fever in Brazil by investing $35
million in a biodiesel plant targeting the European alternative
fuels markets.
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