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’DE Shaw and other hedgies look to Asia
While hedge funds have been virtually stampeding out of Japan for the last few years, DE Shaw, the $24bn hedge fund founded by computer scientist David Shaw, is set to open offices in Tokyo as well as Shanghai,
Coming next for hedge funds: the Greek inquisition
Life can be so unfair for hedge funds. It seems you can’t even make a buck kicking a faltering eurozone economy when it’s down, as the FT reported on Wednesday. But you can short the whole eurozone.
Amid growing fears of a regulatory backlash against hedge funds’ trading positions on specific sovereign debt of Greece and other weak eurozone economies,
Hedge funds hit by August losses
Some of the grandest names in the hedge fund world suffered last month having failed to anticipate market turmoil and failing to produce the absolute returns they promise investors. The list of badly-hit hedge funds in August reads like a “Who’s Who”