Rising US Dollar Strengthening Real Estate Market in Dubai
Rising US dollar combined with world class infrastructure and high quality of life are strengthening real estate market in Dubai which is competing with other global cities such as Paris and London, according to a report...
Investor Requests to Withdraw From Hedge Funds Soared This Month
Investor requests to withdraw money from hedge funds rose this month compared with February 2014, data from SS&C portfolios showed on Friday....
Hedge Fund Manager Fakes Death to Avoid Redemptions
A New York hedge fund manager who was running an alleged fraud went to great lengths to avoid giving investors their money back, including telling an investor he had died of a heart attack, the authorities said on Friday...
$1T for Infrastructure, But Where's the Money?
Two high-powered senators have upped the ante in the drive to boost spending for highways, bridges, power grids and other job-generating infrastructure. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the ranking member...
Meredith Whitney’s Hedge Fund is Supposedly in Turmoil
The hedge fund Meredith Whitney started last year after she became one of Wall Street’s best-known analysts is in turmoil. Her biggest investor demanded his money back and two executives left in the ...
How a $600M Hedge Fund Disappeared
In the run-up to the financial crisis a hedge fund took in hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy investors. Now the money is gone—and the man who ran it has disappeared from their sights....
Annual Return of 5-6% From Investing Exclusively in Deprived Areas
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">They have been called everything from locusts to barbarians – but one </span><a href="http://www.ft.com/topics/themes/Private_equity">private equity</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> fund says it has evidence it is capable of doing social good as well as making money...</span>
Goldman Sachs Sells $285M in Hedge Fund Holdings
The Volcker Rule, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, bars banks from several types of investing and trading with their own money, the sort of work that has long been a big profit maker f...
Pimco will lose billions from Gross' departure
Pimco could lose 10% to 30% of its assets in the wake of the departure of its founder and star manager, Bill Gross.
Are Hedge Fund Alpha Trades Really Losing Money?
Investors have piled into hedge funds for years because they supposedly possess the holy grail of investing—the ability to make money through their own skillful trades, regardless of the direction of...