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	<title>FT Alphaville</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How many hedge fund managers does it take..?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of Friday levity, courtesy McSweeney's.

Word problems for future hedge fund managers: Elementary (AGES 5-10)

	Dick has $1m. Jane has $1m. If Dick and Jane both give their $1m to T. Boone, how many millions will he claim he can turn it into?
	Among those earning 10-figure incomes, Mr Soros's total annual compensation is greater than Mr Falcone's....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hedgies face the music - for a good cause</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, this is a charity plug.&nbsp; 


The annual May-Fair event happens this year at the Cafe de Paris in London. But you will have to be quick since it takes place next Thursday, May 15, getting underway at 6.30.&nbsp; 


The line-up: The Subscribers, The Hypothecators, Hicksville 6, Pinstripe Hype,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Friday: 

What do you get when you cross good, thematic long-term investors and stock pickers with quarterly or annual redemptions? Perverse decision-making and style drift. Or a portfolio manager with an ulcer.

Inflation is like the boor who goes to the hottest restaurant in town without a reservation,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hedge funds: (Some) losers become winners</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is still too early for hedge-fund honchos to celebrate, the biggest winners so far this year are some of the funds that had the biggest losses over the brutal summer of 2007, reports the WSJ. Last summer, losses by some quantitative funds, which rely on computer models, forced them to do some selling,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A real chance to be a trader</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/08/12890/a-real-chance-to-be-a-trader/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you wondered what it is like to be a real stock market trader? Have you been secretly memorising ticker symbols? If you happen to live in the UK, here is that once-in-a-lifetime chance: via hereisthecity.com, Century Films and the BBC are looking for 5 non-City types to take part in a trading experiment:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Thursday,

- "No-one in the City feels the need to change his underpants. After all, what chance do public sector workers have of ever recognizing a well-informed decision?"

- "Nearly 80% of affluent Americans believe a recession has already hit the US and optimism about the US is at a record low among the well-to-do."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pink Picks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News and analysis from the FT:

Martin Feldstein: Why prepositions matter
A misstatement (due to a misleading preposition) that the US economy expanded in the first quarter creates an inappropriately sanguine view of the months ahead and therefore reduces the prospect of strong action to prevent the deep decline that may otherwise occur,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 06:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Resignation casts shadow on GLG</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unexpected resignation of a star hedge fund manager, poor performance and the forced restatement of costs overshadowed GLG Partners' Q1 results. Noam Gottesman, chairman and chief executive, said the group that listed in New York in November was "facing cross-currents near-term". After a “disappointing” performance for the group's 40-plus funds in the quarter,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/05/07/12838/further-reading-22/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Wednesday,

- Do contracts matter any more?

- You say tomato....Saudi's "investment company", "not a sovereign fund"

- "It isn’t unrealistic to think the Saudis oil export revenue could approach $400 billion a year if oil stays above $120."

- "We're losing money, cutting the dividend,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Icap founder launches Africa fund</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Spencer, founder of inter-dealer broker Icap, is ploughing tens of millions of dollars into a new hedge fund to profit from frontier markets in Africa and the Middle East amid a rush of money into the region. IPGL, Spencer’s family investment vehicle, is teaming up with a US financial consultant to put $125m of seed capital into Insparo Asset Management’s first fund,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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