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The assets of oil-rich countries, Asian central banks, hedge funds, and private-equity firms have tripled since 2000 which make them the world's new financial power brokers. This group controls $8.5 trillion in assets which is about five percent of total global financial assets. The growth of this group's influence will be unaffected by the rise of interest rates and a drop in the price of oil.

Stories of distressed investing can be traced back in history to the moneychangers in the Bible, who were able to arbitrage the value of the half shekel in Jewish temples. [...]

While a news anchor with NBC, Bryant Gumbel remarked, 'Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways.' By extension, a company experiences can affect its culture. This [...]

Stephen Gordon is the kind of shareholder who gives bank and thrift managers fits. Gordon, a 33-year-old former New York investment banker who moved last summer to Newport Beach, CA, [...]

The start of the financial crisis is discussed in relation to Wachovia Corp.'s $10 million bet with a small hedge fund, a credit-default swap that led to a $1.5 billion collateralized default obligation that involves other big players, such as Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. Other details about the interconnectedness of such events leading to the 2008 economic crisis are discussed.

Some investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) blame problems in the sector on hedge funds that short the CMBX - an index series that allows investors to take a position [...]

As lenders hoard capital in these uncertain times, debt financing for commercial real estate investments has nearly come to an abrupt halt. But Matthew Hoffman, chief investment officer of Weston [...]

The one consistency the markets have been showing in recent months is volatility. Where there is movement, the investment sector finds opportunity and in recent years volatility trading has found [...]

Largely because of volatile market conditions and the credit crisis, the number of hedge funds launched in the first quarter was the lowest for a quarter since 2000, while fund [...]

The hedge fund industry needs to be more transparent and two landmark initiatives, one in the US and one in the United Kingdom aim to help the market shed its [...]

Hedge funds and private-equity firms dominate commercial real estate and play a significant role with residential space as well. However, when these funds appear in headlines involving a real estate [...]

Will the clouds over the market disperse or are we in for a storm? During the summer months, the market's attention has been on the unfolding story of the US […]

The size of offerings for commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations has been growing by leaps and bounds during the last year. Until mid-2006, the average offering ranged between [...]

Dan Hoffman, president and CEO of M5 Networks, likes the way hedge funds and other financial services firms are making telecommunications decisions these days. 'Basically, they just don't want to [...]

Large redemptions and the closing of a few well-known hedge funds have had minimal impact on U.S. institutional investors and their favored hedge fund-of-funds managers. Sources said that's because outflows [...]

A new type of investor smells opportunity in the struggling auto-supply industry, one willing to put money at risk but expecting quick and high returns: hedge funds. These funds are [...]

At nearly the midpoint of 2005, the distressed debt market seems remarkably undistressed. Still, given the regular presence in the debt capital markets of troubled issuers that have been on [...]

While some increases in fees can be justified, there is sometimes a hint at profiteering at investors' expense Any discussion between those born in Yorkshire or Scotland will include a […]

Hedge funds can play a valuable role in futures markets by providing additional liquidity to the market, which benefits all market participants, argues a New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) study [...]

The recent collapse of Florida hedge fund KL Financial reveals the story of a hedge fund that, far from stalking investors from the fringes of the industry, conducted its business [...]

If the Takeover Panel has its way the mystery surrounding hedge funds will soon be explained, but then the City will just have to find some other imaginary force to [...]

Companies wanting to tap the markets know that hedge funds with convertible arbitrage strategies are some of the few active players these days. But while the convert money entices companies [...]

Hedge funds, unregulated investment pools that often take contrarian bets on the market, are growing like weeds, and their managers are wielding the kind of clout that can give public [...]

Hedge funds are luring compliance officers away from broker/dealers and investment advisers with higher salaries and bonuses that are twice or four times as high. Hedge funds are looking for [...]