News Report: Netherlands’ health and social sector Pension Plan to “eradicate” Hedge Funds from portfolio First it was the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, and the trend has now extended to the Netherlands. Hedge...
Depending on your news source, this is either a rosy or horrible time to raise new debt for your mid-large sized company. The publicly-traded high yield debt market has taken a pasting this summer,...
Would it surprise you that the disclosure rules for a $300 million closed end fund Initial Public Offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange are more lax than for a $30 million company IPO? Investment...
The list of the Top 10 hedge fund earners is out, and the fellow on the bottom of the list raked in US$350 million in 2009. Risk / Reward, that’s the nature of the...
As we spread the good word in the U.S.A. about Wellington Financial, I’ve come to appreciate just how differently various venture debt firms approach the same deal opportunity. CFOs try to find similiar threads...
It is a familiar refrain: “the hedge fund industry is dead as it is currently known”. For institutional investors who thought hedge fund managers would make money in both good times and bad, and...
Traders gossip with clients? Send in the Feds! The Globe’s story about the suspension of four TD Securities employees will send a chiver down the spines of thousands of brokerage firm staffers this morning....
I don’t count myself as a believer in the theory that the economy is already recovering, but I may well be wrong. If you read the tea leaves this week, many equity portfolio managers...
O’Leary Facts & Figures Week Part Three There are various schools of thought about active investing. Do you buy good companies and hold their shares for a long time, or do you move about...
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