Interest Rates Top Swiss DMX Alternative Investment Indice
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- The DMX, Directional Markets Index, heads the list of investable Alternative Investment Indices provided by Alternative-Index Ltd, with a month-to-date performance of...
View ArticleSalus Alpha offers a fund based on hedge fund index to investors
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Because of investors’ demand Salus Alpha decided to make the Salus Alpha Directional Market accessible as a fund. This way Salus Alpha continues to launch tracker funds...
View ArticleTreasury Select Committee turns the spotlight on hedge funds
Times Online – They are the financial world’s most secretive and unaccountable men — but also among its wealthiest and most influential. Today, four of the sharpest speculators in the hedge fund...
View ArticleBrown wants more scrutiny of hedge funds
Reuters UK – Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Thursday for greater regulation of hedge funds. Speaking in Rome after a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ahead of April’s G20...
View ArticleDummys View of the Global Crisis
Given the string of problems created by hedge funds, derivatives, investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds, mortgage securities and hairy bank loans over these few years, it is becoming...
View ArticleFinancial watchdog out to clip the hedge funds
Times Online – Secretive hedge funds will eventually be subject to the same supervisory rules as banks, under a tightening of Britain’s system of regulation. The changes, which will require banks and...
View ArticleDarling Predicts Agreement on Hedge Funds, IMF at G-20 Summit
Bloomberg – The Group of 20 leaders will agree on new rules to rein in hedge funds and may more than double the resources of the International Monetary Fund, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair...
View ArticleG-20 Nations OK $1.1 Tril. in Emergency Loans
The Ledger – Anxiously assembled at the most perilous moment for the global economy since the Great Depression, the world’s financial powers pledged more than $1 trillion Thursday for emergency loans...
View ArticlePound extends losses vs dollar after Europe election
guardian.co.uk – Sterling fell against the dollar to near a two-week low on Monday after a collapse of support for the UK’s ruling Labour Party in the European election raised the chances of further...
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