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11/4/2008 The Hedge Fund Handcuff Premium you’re supposed to be able to withdraw money from Hedge Funds, but a growing number are locking down redemptions. Will this just make things worse for the industry down the road?

10/24/2008 Hedge Fund Withdrawals Rise, Put Pressure on Market as much as 25% of assets being managed by hedge funds may be pulled by year end, adding to the downward spiral of asset prices.

9/10/2008 2008 Hedge Fund 100 ranks the top 100 firms by assets under management and provides returns, where available. JP Morgan, Bridgewater Associates. and Farallon Capital Management take the top three spots.

8/29/2008 Hedge Funds Step in to Help the Hexion-Huntsman Deal covers DE Shaw & Co ‘s offer of $500 million if the deal goes through. This is similar to Highfields Capital ‘s offer to underwrite $400 million in the Clear Channel merger to protect their investment.

8/27/2008 Most Hedge Funds Don’t Plan Ahead on Management A study says that 70% are lacking plans for senior management transitions

8/23/2008 Volatility has come back to bite hedge funds where it hurts Average hedge fund down 5.5% YTD, August is said to be worse than July when financials rose (and everyone was short) and commodities fell (and everyone was long).

7/28/2008 European hedge fund launches fall to six-year low down 45% to just 106 in the first half of the year

6/10/2008 Hedge fund managers bounce back talks about how easy it is for a manager to blow up and then raise capital again for another fund. Peloton’s Geoff Grant, Amaranth’s Brian Hunter, LTCM’s Meriwether and Scholes.

4/22/2008 Equity hedge funds see assets drop $30 bln; distressed debt funds get inflows Although hedge fund assets are relatively unchanged, money has shifted out of equity/macro funds and into credit opportunity funds.

4/15/2008 Best-Paid Hedge Fund Managers everyone’s favorite gossip, Paulson tops the list at $3.7 billion last year, with Soros and James Simons falling behind at $2.9 billion and $2.8 billion.

3/27/2008 Hedge funds: the return of risk argues that some funds are returning to their roots by betting big, and even though they may blow up, some investors look for this.

3/17/2008 Are Hedge Funds Behind Bear Stearn’s Demise? Quite possibly, by taking their cash away from fear of counterparty risk as well as reputational issues.

3/6/2008 Hedge funds spark fixed income stress led by Peloton blowing up and Carlyle missing margin calls

3/6/2008 Hedge Funds Frozen Shut withdrawals blocked to prevent losses, or just postponing the inevitable?

3/5/2008 Big US hedge funds expand assets by a third so is the US somehow more resillient than Europe (see below)

2/8/2008 Hedge funds flex political muscle in U.S. election A quick rundown of who’s backing who for those interested in politics.

2/5/2008 Investors flee Japanese hedge funds $7.7 billion pulled out in one year — that’s over 20% of assets!

2/1/2008 ETFs, Indexation Threaten Mutual, Hedge Funds Many hedge funds are actually happy to see ETFs replace hedge funds that simply pursue well established strategies. There are many great managers out there, and this should help them differentiate themselves above the rest.

1/29/2008 Hedge funds demonstrate resilience in thorny times talks about how Hedge Funds, who were supposed to bring down the financial system escaped most of the pain that big wall st. banks faced.

1/23/2008 Prominent hedge funds nurse heavy losses in 2008 Down 7% or more in just the first couple weeks? I guess my 401k isn’t the only one hurting.

1/22/2008 Distressed gets dressed for success Can there be any more talk of distressed debt? Three out of four hedge funds polled last year by DebtWire were readying funds that invest in distressed situations. And they had high expectations for returns. The poll found hedge funds looking to invest in distressed situations are expecting returns this year to exceed 15% to 20%

1/22/2008 Hedge Funds see big gains in distressed investing as the the debt and equity markets both plummet world-wide, there will be many opportunities for big winners in 2008.

1/21/2008 Hedge Fund Fraud Insurance is available from Protean Investment Risks. It will cost in the low tens of basis points. What else could you possibly buy protection on for that cheap right now?

1/8/2008 Bloomberg’s 2007 returns of many major funds from Paulson Credit Opportunities being up 589% on subprime bets to Goldman Sachs’ Global Alpha fund down 38%.