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Madoff "Feeder Funds" Tremont, FGG, et al, Toast clusterstock.alleyinsider.com - Dec 17, 2008   The supposedly sophisticated fund-of-fund firms that just vaporized tens of billions of dollars in the Madoff ponzi scheme--Fairfield Greenwich Group, Tremont, et al--are violently protesting their innocence: There was no way they could have known. That this defense is patently false (other people k... add a comment   |

Madoff: The 0-and-0 Hedge Fund Manager portfolio.com - Dec 12, 2008   Reading Michael Ocrant's 2001 profile of Bernie Madoff (via Greg Newton), one can see why fund-of-funds loved him so much: they got to keep all the associated fees! Madoff himself charged nothing: The acknowledged Madoff feeder funds -- New York-based Fairfield Sentry and Tremont Advisors' B... add a comment   |

Size Really Does Matter fool.com - Dec 10, 2008   How much should you pay for a mutual fund? add a comment   |

Uber-Bear Shuts It Down runningofthebulls.typepad.com - Dec 08, 2008   Bill Fleckenstein is shutting down his short fund.  From Calculated Risk."After considerable thought and deliberation I have decided to make a major change in my life: I am going to close my hedge fund. I have several reasons for no longer wishing to run a short-only fund as I have for the past 12 y... add a comment   |

Tribune Files for Bankruptcy fundmymutualfund.com - Dec 08, 2008   Sam Zell is not having a good year. There was an excellent article on this summer in BusinessWeek on Zell's "Deal from Hell" in regards to his purchase of Tribune. [Jul 30 BusinessWeek: Sam Zell's Deal from Hell] (a great read if you want to learn about this sort of thing)Well today, hell arrived... add a comment   |

How To Start Your Own Hedge Fund fwallstreet.com - Dec 08, 2008   What does it take to start a hedge fund? The scary truth is that virtually anyone can start a hedge fund; and, it can be fairly inexpensive and easy to do. Why is this so scary? Among other reasons, hedge funds can attract investors while providing very little information; so, investors may not be a... add a comment   |

Hedge Fund Roach Motels tbm.thebigmoney.com - Dec 08, 2008     read more add a comment   |

Bloomberg: Soros and Citadel Building up Coal Stakes fundmymutualfund.com - Nov 26, 2008   I'm still a fan of coal - this is why as I've dumped much of my global growth/commodity plays as hedge funds collapse - I've keep fertilizer and coal since they should be the LEAST economically sensitive. In theory you'd want your home heated or the ability to eat food even in a Great Depression -... add a comment   |

Hedge fund investors of the world unite! dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - Nov 25, 2008   By Katie Benner As the founder of Tremont Capital Management, Sandra Manzke has been in the hedge fund business for more than two decades. So when a veteran like her calls for hedge fund investors to unite and protect themselves against “egregious hedge fund managers,” you know there’s been a tecton... add a comment   |

Did Asset Allocation Work? fool.com - Nov 25, 2008   Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? add a comment   |

Why 'Powerful' Rally Won't Last: 'A Lot of People Still Have to Deleverage' finance.yahoo.com - Nov 24, 2008   Picking up where they left of Friday afternoon, major averages rallied sharply Monday morning on a combination of factors:Relief over the Citigroup rescue package (imperfect, but something's better than nothing). ... add a comment   |

BEP Avenue Freezeout adamsoptions.blogspot.com - Nov 24, 2008   about  BEP Remember BEP? It's a closed end fund that replicates the Buy-Write Index in the S&P (BX). We discussed it several times in this space. And determined (unscientifically) that it did not have an awful lot of predictive power in terms of either volatility or market action.One of the big mysteries t... add a comment   |

Funds' Big Test: The Great Redemption Rush businessweek.com - Nov 23, 2008   add a comment   |

Eddie Lampert's Troubles: It's Not Just Sears bespokeinvest.typepad.com - Nov 21, 2008   about  SHLD Yesterday, we highlighted the miserable performance of Sears Holdings (SHLD) over the last several weeks. Since SHLD is most often associated with Eddie Lampert, we looked to see how the rest of the stocks in his portfolio have been doing. Lampert's hedge fund is called RBS Partners, and based on it... add a comment   |

Invest at a Double Discount fool.com - Nov 20, 2008   about  ADX, PEO Closed-end funds have amazing opportunities right now. add a comment   |

Hedge Fund Selling has been Intense runningofthebulls.typepad.com - Nov 19, 2008   From Vince Farrell at RealMoney. A report making the rounds today detailed managers' Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or... add a comment   |

Managers In A Recessionary Foxhole investors.com - Nov 19, 2008   add a comment   |

Citigroup proves it can do little right; closes another hedge fund bloggingstocks.com - Nov 19, 2008   about  C Filed under: Press releases, Marketing and advertising, Citigroup Inc. (C)For Citigroup (NYSE: C) to regain the confidence of Wall Street it will have to start doing a few things right. Firing 53,000 people probably does not qualify. After that news, Citi hit another 52-week low at $7.80, down from... add a comment   |

Why Should I Care: Hedge Funds minyanville.com - Nov 19, 2008   Oreos oatmeal toilet paper tinfoil light bulbs hammers coffee sliced meat - is there anything these New York delis don’t have? And where on earth do they get the cash to buy all this stuff? It’s not like those hammers are flying off the shelves.Thank god for hedge funds.That’s right friend. The line... add a comment   |

Icahn's Next Biotech Adventure fool.com - Nov 18, 2008   about  BIIB, AMLN, EXEL With ImClone done, he's got his eye focused elsewhere. add a comment   |

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