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January 23, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

Hedge Fund Regulation Trends

Hedge funds are pools of money invested by individuals or groups of qualified investors who met federal requirements, which are determined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) in the United States. Today, there is much talk about regulations in the hedge fund market. The two leading financial market regulators, the SEC, and Financial Services Authority (FSA) seem to be slowly but steadily moving in direction of controlled regulation.

As hedge funds popularity grows year after year, the major concern is how such growth would impact broader markets in unforeseen ways. According to Richard Herring, finance professor at Wharton and co-director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, "The important issue that has not been much discussed publicly is the potential implications for the industryif hedge funds do reach a broader market."Herring argues that regulation of hedge funds would be an irrevocable mistake, explaining further that "[r]egulation is in some sense is not compatible with the fundamental role and character of hedge funds", adding that "hedge funds are designed by law with maximum flexibility."

Recent trends in the hedge fund industry indicate continual improvements in their ability to cope up with systemic risk and reflect a much larger movement towards stability throughout global financial markets. Policymakers must keep in mind the fact such trends because the history of financial markets regulation reveals that financial and technological innovations often render regulations obsolete, requiring them to be restructured or either repealed. The hedge fund industry’s constantly and rapidly changing structure and practices almost guarantee that new regulation would at best be redundant and might even obliterate further developments.

The hedge fund industry has done a commendable job for the most part regulating itself. Hedge fund current regulations have served its purpose well, hedge funds are moving forward: current hedge fund assets are in excess of US$ 800 billion. In the first half of 2010, the United States witnessed a fundamental shift in the global hedge fund industry as it enters a period of significant growth set against financial recovery and increasing scrutiny from regulators and institutional investors. The recent pace has carried industry assets across the 1.5 trillion USD mark, with sentiment aimed for continued growth. The "renaissance"can be attributed majorly to strong performance in end of 2009, but net inflows have also steadily risen. Further testimony to the industry’s dramatic resurrection can be seen in the increasing number of hedge fund managers who are now closing their funds to new investors. Anticipated regulation, driven by external factors, is predicted to be injurious to the hedge fund industry on a global
level. But, if there is not a globally coordinated and managed regulatory effort, it is likely that some funds may choose exploit potential loop holes.

Investors are now focusing more than ever on liquidity and transparency. With these principles in place, investors have more control and are able to dictate terms of the fund to a greater scale. Additionally, the level and quality of investor due diligence has been continually rising. Also, an increase in managed accounts, single investor funds, distressed asset funds and funds investing in emerging markets has been noticed in the later months of 2010.

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January 12, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

Understanding Hedge Funds

All investors are looking for the most time efficient ways to make the most money. For those individuals who have a bit of extra money to spend, hedge funds may be just the way to make money fast.

The establishment of hedge funds date back to the late 1940s and were developed by Alfred Jones who was the father of unorthodox investment techniques.

One of his most successful techniques was selling short stocks while buying long stocks. This is the basis for how a hedge fund operates. Due to the number of guidelines associated with Hedge Funds it requires much more money then normal stock vehicles.

Hedge Funds guide investors in making a profit in high risk investments. Hedge Funds use technique called leverage. This is when the capital from a company's investors is combined with borrowed money from a bank.

The fee associated with Hedge Funds is called a incentive fee. This is a fee based on a portion, instead of a percentage, of the clients profits. The fee is actually re-invested in hopes of making the company even more money.

For the most part companies own Hedge Funds. Most people do not have enough money to meet the minimum initial investment to have their own Hedge Fund. In 2004 alone Hedge Fund investments passed one trillion dollars. By the middle of 2004, 39 companies held 1.1 trillion dollars in their Hedge Fund.

Making a profit from a Hedge Fund is all about the timing. The best time to invest in a Hedge Fund is when a company that owns one is merging with another company.

If you know a merger is going to take place, buy a large amount of shares in the company that is going to merge. Once the merge takes place the values in these stocks increase dramatically.

This is an extremely high risk investment because mergers that are often rumored to happen never do. The activities of companies are often unpredictable.

Selling short is another great way to turn a profit on merging companies. This takes advantage of the difference between present market price and the high purchase price in the event that mergers does take place.

Hedge Funds are extremely beneficial because of their level of security. Hedge Funds that belong to companies are kept private. This type of investment takes place between a company and individual - the government and other companies are not involved.

Hedge Funds do not need to file with the SEC and are usually based in place that have less regulations like the Cayman or Virgin Islands. Due to the secrecy Hedge Funds are often believed to be illegal and unethical.

However, this is simply not true. Hedge Funds are a legal way to make a great profit. Remember investing in Hedge Funds takes a great deal of money and it is an extremely risky investments. However, the immense pay off can change your life forever, and certainly it is a risk that many people are willing to take to be financial secure.

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November 14, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Latest Hedge Fund Corruption News

Decades after famed heist, a 'Goodfella' goes on trial
While the case is a throwback to the great gangster trials decades ago involving La Cosa Nostra, the techniques prosecutors used to ensnare mobsters are now at the forefront of the fight against white-collar perpetrators like Rajaratnam, the hedge-fund ...
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Crossed fingers on a bad, necessary budget deal
Clearly, the corruption of Persia with our gadgets, blue jeans, media and hedge fund operators will not happen overnight. Similarly, this two-year agreement, seen by True Believers as dead-Speaker-walking John Boehner's parting MIRV-in-the-eye to ...
Read more on TBO.com (blog)

Video: Juan González Speech on Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis
... a friend of Hillary Clinton, has also been apparently hired as a lobbyist for a lot of these hedge funds. There were all kinds of people in Fortuño's party who benefited from the UBS pension bond deal, that got cuts in one way or another. So, there ...
Read more on Democracy Now! (blog)

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November 1, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Venezuelan hedge fund manager gets 13 years for fraud scheme

Venezuelan hedge fund manager gets 13 years for fraud scheme
Over time, the fraud ballooned exponentially as Illarramendi used his Stamford-based hedge funds to try to cover up losses exceeding a half billion dollars. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice ...
Read more on Yahoo News UK

Supreme Court Denies Request to Hear Newman Case
... Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson were convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to prison after their trades in certain stocks, allegedly based on a chain of material non-public information, resulted in over $ 70 million in gains for their hedge ...
Read more on HedgeCo.net (blog)

Having Surged In The Past Week, Are Casino Stocks A Good Buy Now?
In fact, the 15 most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds have returned 118% since the end of August 2012 and beaten the S&P 500 Index by some 60 percentage points (see more details here). Macau gaming revenues have been atrocious for some time ...
Read more on Insider Monkey (blog)

Controversial pharma CEO Martin Shkreli bails on Valeant bet
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The one-time hedge fund executive now running a biotech firm at the center of a drug-pricing controversy on Monday said he has bailed from a losing bet he made on another contentious drug maker: Valeant Pharmaceuticals ...
Read more on GlobalPost

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