Energy Hedge Fund Center Announces New Online Seminar: Investment Opportunities in the Energy & Environmental Value Chain: Hedge Funds, VC and Private Equity
Houston, TX (ContentDesk) March 14, 2006 -- The energy hedge fund center, LLC (EHFC) is to conduct a new online seminar on April 18th, 2006 on Investment opportunities in the energy and environmental value chain: hedge funds, VC and private equity. The seminar will take place at 1pm EDT.Over the last two years, the energy industry has literally been transformed into the hot investment sector. Today, with high and volatile energy commodity prices impacting everyone, energy is in the news headlines 24/7. On a daily basis, new investment opportunities in the energy industry are offered in the form of energy or natural resource-specific mutual funds, electronically traded funds (ETFs), income and royalty trusts, Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and, other vehicles. Yet these new vehicles only scratch the surface of the potential returns available in the alternative investment universe via energy and environmental hedge funds.
In this Phone & Web seminar, the authors of the new John Wiley book Energy and Environment Hedge Funds: The New Investment Paradigm, Peter C. Fusaro and Dr. Gary M. Vasey, will reveal several of these overlooked opportunities Todays investment opportunities reveal an energy value chain that is overlaid with an environmental value chain driven by higher energy prices, said Mr. Peter C.
Fusaro, co-principal, EHFC. In this seminar we will discuss the investment opportunities across the value chain and the various investment vehicles that are available. To register for this seminar, visit PGS Energy at www.pgsenergy.com/online/f201.html or contact the energy hedge fund center at info @ energyhedgefunds.com.About Energy Hedge Fund Center, LLCEnergy Hedge Fund Center, LLC maintains a free on-line community (www.energyhedgefunds.com) providing news, articles and general information about the nexus of energy, environment and hedge funds. It also publishes a subscription based electronic newsletter Energy Hedge and the directory of energy hedge funds..
Smarsh Inc. Introduces Hedge Fund Email/IM Archiving Solution, Archive InSite?
Smarsh Inc., a privately held global provider of technology solutions for the financial services industry, announces the launch of a new version of its archiving solution designed specifically for small to mid-sized hedge funds, Archive InSite. The new solution satisfies the need for hedge fund managers to follow future hedge fund record retention requirements. A bundled package of services, Archive InSite allows compliance officers, and other authorized administrators to utilize all products in the Smarsh Inc. Web Compliance Toolkit. Administrators will now have access to Email and IM archiving, anti-spam and virus protection, encryption, and a host of other provisions which have been designed specifically for hedge fund compliance.
Financial managers now have a definite digital trail of all electronic communication, providing a fail safe and fully searchable archive which complies with new hedge fund regulations. Furthermore, Archive InSite has also been engineered to easily...
Smarsh Inc. Introduces Hedge Fund Email/IM Archiving Solution, Archive InSite?
Hedge funds > Smarsh Inc. Introduces Hedge Fund Email/IM Archiving Solution, Archive InSite?
THE BIG SECRET THE MUTUAL FUNDS DON?T WANT YOU TO KNOW?INDEXING!
Non-indexed mutual funds try to keep it secret that actively managed mutual very funds rarely do better stock market indexes. The higher fees of the managed funds really make it hard for these funds to out compete indexed funds. Smart financial journalists occasionally rat out fund managers for not educating the public in this regard. When this happens the mutual fund managers make a feeble attempt at self defense by pointing to something called the 5% rule. This rule says that for a fund to market itself as diversified it cannot have more than 5% of 75% of the funds total assets in a single stock.
In other words, a fund can have 25% of its holdings in a single stock, but the remaining 75% must follow the 5% rule. The 5% rule was created by the Investment Company Act Requirement. Fund managers claim that this hampers their performance instead of admitting that they are in the business just to clip you for high fees while the mutual fund under-performs the general market. The truth...
THE BIG SECRET THE MUTUAL FUNDS DON?T WANT YOU TO KNOW?INDEXING!
Hedge funds > THE BIG SECRET THE MUTUAL FUNDS DON?T WANT YOU TO KNOW?INDEXING!
Energy Hedge Fund Center Now Tracking 330 Funds in Energy - New Trend is Emergence of Natural Resources Fund of Funds
The Energy Hedge Fund Center (EHFC) reports that it now lists more than 330 hedge funds active in the energy and energy-related industries with two to three new funds in formation each week. The Energy Hedge Fund Directory lists hedge funds that are either specialist energy funds or more diversified funds that have exposed more of their assets under management to the energy industry. The directory is actively maintained by EHFC staff and subscribers receive monthly updates.Currently, EHFC has identified more than 100 hedge funds active in energy commodities markets and more than 70 that are pursuing energy focused equity long/short strategies. Additionally, the directory now lists a growing number of alternative energy and environmental or ?green' hedge funds. About 90 of the listed hedge funds have a 100% focus on the energy industry while many more are active across commodities including electric power, natural gas, refined products, crude oil, metals and agricultural commodities....
Energy Hedge Fund Center Now Tracking 330 Funds in Energy - New Trend is Emergence of Natural Resources Fund of Funds
Hedge funds > Energy Hedge Fund Center Now Tracking 330 Funds in Energy - New Trend is Emergence of Natural Resources Fund of Funds