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’Japan’s hedgie trap
Some more insights into the (financial) traps and machinations of Japan’s post-March 11 markets and their impact on investors — this time from the FT’s Sam Jones, formerly of the FT Alphaville’s parish.
[Modern Football Finance] Something rotten in British football
A speech by Paul Marshall, the co-founder of Marshall Wace, (and Manchester United fan) to the Liberal Democrat autumn party conference on Monday night.
(Warning — it’s long.)
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We are convening in the home town of one of the greatest English football clubs – in fact I would go as far as to say the second greatest.
Marshall Wace set to pursue financials
Marshall Wace, the $15bn London hedge fund, has poached Morgan Stanley’s head of Asian proprietary trading to set up a financials fund as hedge funds seek bargains amid bombed-out bank shares. Amit Rajpal,
Marshall Wace heads east
Marshall Wace is expanding into Asia in a joint venture with GaveKal Holdings, the researcher and money manager co-founded by Times columnist Anatole Kaletsky and investors Charles and Louis-Vincent Gave in 1998,
Marshall Wace raises €2bn for new fund
Marshall Wace, the London hedge fund manager, has raised €2bn ($3bn) for a new hedge fund despite market turmoil and uncertainty. The new, market-neutral global Tops fund is thought to be the biggest new fund of the year so far,
Hedge funds finding their feet onshore
“Hedge funds are going mainstream”, so says James Mackintosh in Tuesday’s FT. Some big name hedge funds appear to be escaping the Caribbean tax-friendly sun in order to cash in on the slightly more risk averse investor and the moneyed big name investment banks,
If Blackstone is selling, why are you buying?
One by one, the big companies of the alternative investment industry are selling – but this may well be a trend to sit out, says Matthew Lynn in his Bloomberg column.
Blackstone, which has spent $160bn taking companies private in the past two decades,
Defensive stance helps shield hedge funds
Many of the world’s biggest hedge funds have emerged largely unscathed from this week’s turmoil in the markets, with well-known managers such as Paul Tudor Jones’ Tudor Investments, Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital,
Marshall Wace co-founder defends methodology
Paul Marshall, the multimillionaire co-founder of hedge fund Marshall Wace, has defended its controversial methodology, which relies on investment ideas supplied by City stockbrokers, in an interview with the Times.