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HEDGE FUND ADVERTISING Have you seen all those big full page adsfor hedge funds in the Wall Street Journal, theFinancial Times, Investors Business Daily? Youhaven't. Maybe they are being drowned out by theregular mutual funds who continually tell youhow great they are. Shucks! I forgot. Hedge funds are not allowed to advertise. I wonder why.
Maybe they thinkthat their potential customers are too dumb toknow that hedge funds are a poor investment. Could be. The Securities and Exchange Commissionis trying to protect investors ? I think? To be able to buy into a hedge fund thesmallest investor must have a net worth of$1,000,000 and an income of more than $200,000per year. Maybe the SEC doesn't think thesefolks are bright enough to know a good thingwhen they see it. There are other groups that are major investors with the hedge funds.
Literally billionsof dollars are invested by university endowments,charitable trusts, state and corporate pensionplans. Could it be that they have a betterreturn than regular mutual funds? Naw! The mediawould tell you wouldn't they? The media is there to report the facts. It is hard to believe that just because a largeportion of their income is from advertisingrevenues of mutual funds that they would be laxabout this. If you were a fund manager and your fund was under performing and it was reported in thelocal paper, TV, or radio would you pay them tocarry your advertising? You sure would not wantto be compared with performance of a hedge fund. What is it that makes the difference of astandard mutual fund with a hedge fund? Why doesthe smart money gravitate to them? One word.Performance.
A regular hedge fund manager ispaid on HOW MUCH money he has in his fund andnot on how much he makes for the investor. Thehedge fund manager is paid a percentage of thePROFITS he makes for the investors. No profitmeans no bonus so he better do the job or hewill be out of a job. Smart money moves. Itmoves to where the profit is being made.
The SEC will not allow standard mutual fundmanagers to be compensated in this manner. Theirclaim is that it will be too dangerous for thesmall investor. Hog wash! If a fund is losingmoney the little guy should be selling hiscurrent funds like the smart money and finding abetter performing fund. None of the mediarecommend this to the little guy. My guess is there are enough intelligent fund managers who would like to be paid forperformance and would set up no-load funds toattract investors.
The SEC seems to think moreof the funds than they do of the smallerinvestors. It is a shame you can't check the advertisingclaims of standard mutual funds against the returns of hedge funds..
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All investors are looking to find the top mutual funds for investing their money. We all want to know where our money will grow the fastest and be the safest. But sometimes it can seem overwhelming to sort through all the options available to sort out which are really the top mutual funds for us.
The first step in sorting out the top mutual funds and determining the best place to put your money is to identify your investment goals. This includes assessing the level of risk you're comfortable with as well as how you need your money to work for you. For example, if you're getting close to retirement, you probably are not comfortable with a highly aggressive and risky mutual fund, even if it is one of the top mutual funds in terms of performance.
Instead, you'll be likely to want to find one of the top mutual funds that are low risk and safe; even if that means that you may earn a lower rate of return on your money.
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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
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Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was a pioneer of non-traditional investment strategies. "Non-traditional" categorizes hedge funds quite accurately. Hedge funds have the potential to make an investor quite a bit of money, but many do not understand the nature of hedge funds. Hedge funds have undergone skepticism because they do not have to disclose their activities to third parties.Hedge funds can be quite profitable if an investor uses the best techniques.
One technique is risk arbitrage. Basically, buying stocks in a company that is in the process of a merger and acquisition. Companies announce a specific price the day of the merger, so if the stock is under the stated value before the day of the merger, it is a relatively safe plan to buy and wait. This does pose some risk, because some mergers do not go through. Hedge funds are very secretive and do not have to disclose their activities to third parties.
This allows hedge funds to be free from the...
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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The Broader Impact of Hedge Funds On Energy Markets
(ContentDesk) November 19, 2005 -- The co-founders of the Energy Hedge Fund Center present a new program on their ongoing research and advisory on energy and environmental hedge funds on Wednesday Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. EST.
Peter C. Fusaro and Dr.
Gary Vasey have written the first two reports on energy hedge funds, and launched the online community, Energy Hedge Fund Center website (www.energyhedgefunds.com). They sell and maintain the only Energy Hedge Fund Directory and publish the newsletter Energy Hedge. They are advisors to several energy and environmental hedge funds in the North America and Europe.Based in the twin capitals of U.S. energy trading, New York and Houston, Peter and Gary have called the new factors in energy trading and markets early and correctly. Todays energy trading has shifted with the influence of both energy hedge funds and investment banks leading to...
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FinLab SA and Barclay Group Join Forces
FinLab SA and The Barclay Group recently signed a Data License Agreement, allowing user's of FinLab's PackHedge? software to seamlessly retrieve data from Barclay's suite of hedge fund and managed futures databases. "Combining the PackHedge set of tools with timely and accurate hedge fund data from The Barclay Group creates a powerful solution for the growing and dynamic hedge fund sector," says Mr. Denis de Penthney O'Kelly CEO of FinLab SA.Sol Waksman, president of The Barclay Group, adds, "We're delighted to offer PackHedge subscribers direct access to our databases. We continually strive to increase the scope of our databases and improve data quality. FinLab clients can feel confident they have the best possible data for investment analysis and portfolio construction."FinLab SA provides advanced software products and services to investment professionals making asset allocation decisions on both hedge funds and traditional funds.
The Barclay Group compiles alternative investment...
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The Hedge Fund Headache
The Hedge Fund HeadacheByHedge Funds are dangerous. They play with the D-bomb and Hedge Fund managersdon't know what they are doing. They are like children playing with alandmine in a sandbox. It's fun and exciting until the darn thing goes off.A D-bomb explosion would have the same impact on the global financialmarket, as an H-bomb would have denoted over Salt Lake City. The resultwould be a multi-century wasteland after the explosion.
A D-bomb explosionmeans that our Civilization will be facing a new multi-century Dark Age.The D-bomb is the Derivatives Market. In theory, derivatives are balancedrisk investments that allow Hedge Funds, banks, insurance companies andothers to profit from the spread created by the bet. The three designproblems with D-bombs are that the risk is usually an either or option thatdoesn't factor in a third alternative. Many bundled derivatives havecomponents that don't represent outside financial instruments that mighthave value after a D-bomb explosion....
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17 Extraordinary Human Capacities
People have a tremendous capacity for outstanding achievement. There are also many extraordinary capacities that allow them to become high achievers.Here are seventeen extraordinary capacities that make human beings remarkable. When we recognize and use these capacities, the quality of our lives can become more joyful than ever before.1. Helping someone in their time of tragedy or need shows the capacity for human goodness.2. Listening closely to another's words and experience shows the capacity...
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Jetworx Uses Blog To Show Off Hot Legs
Livingston, NJ (PREB) September 19, 2005 ? Taking its blog (www.jetworx.com/blog) to new heights, Jetworx now publishes a daily list of available one-way private charter flights. Dubbed "On The Fly," Jetworx originally distributed its list by email but felt the time was right to offer people added convenience."Consumer awareness of blogs has really taken off this year. We felt strongly that On The Fly was a perfect fit for our blog," said Andy Nardone, President of Jetworx. "The one-way flights,...
Jetworx Uses Blog To Show Off Hot Legs
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Womens health - What is Thrush?
Among the many organisms that live in the human body is the yeast Candida albicans, which lives in 80 percent of the human population at anyone time . Candida can found on the skin, in the stomach, colon, vagina, rectum, mouth, and throat. Under normal circumstances Candida has no harmful effects but can cause problems when an overgrowth appears in one of the areas mentioned,
an overgrowth of this yeast is called Thrush and the medical name for Thrush is candidiasis
Thrush...
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