This is a syndicated repost courtesy of Sober Look. To view original, click here. Reposted with permission. In spite of improved hedge fund performance during Q3-2012, hedge funds with Macro strategy focus continued to struggle (as discussed earlier). HedgeWeek: – Macro hedge funds detracted from industry wide gains on weakness in trend following and commodity…
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JPMorgan’s top hedge fund liaison out – CNNMoney
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CNNMoneyJPMorgan's top hedge fund liaison outCNNMoneyBy Maureen Farrell May 29, 2012: 1:23 PM ET There are more changes afoot at JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and this time, they are spreading beyond the bank's chief investment office, the unit respons…
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The Natural Gas Massacre Gets Bloodier
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The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for CEO McClendon. He lost his chairmanship after his conflicted entanglements and an in-house hedge fund had seeped out. The company announced it may run out of cash…
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The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren’t Invited to the Real Party | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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A suit has been filed by Facebook shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Morgan Stanley and others. It’s based on a very simple concept: when internal analysts learned that Facebook’s numbers were going to be worse than expected, the company and its bankers didn’t tell everyone, but just “selectively disclosed” information to a small group of…
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Fund managers reveal "best ideas" at Ira Sohn event – Reuters
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Business InsiderFund managers reveal "best ideas" at Ira Sohn eventReutersBy Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Katya Wachtel NEW YORK May 16 (Reuters) – David Einhorn, who runs hedge fund Greenlight Capital, said at a popular investor conference on Wed…
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Einhorn cuts stake in Microsoft – Reuters
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Business InsiderEinhorn cuts stake in MicrosoftReuters| BOSTON (Reuters) – A year ago hedge fund investor David Einhorn very publicly urged Microsoft to get rid of its chief executive. Now he has dramatically gotten rid of more than half of his stake i…
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JPMorgan’s New CIO Tied to Madoff, U.S. Treasury, LTCM – TheStreet
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Matt Zames, the executive tapped to take over management of JPMorgan Chase(JPM_)’s chief investment office (CIO), has a controversial resume… Zames allegedly told a colleague about suspicions regarding Bernie Madoff some 18 months before his Ponzi scheme was revealed to the public. He also worked at Long Term Capital Management, the now-infamous hedge fund comprised…
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JPM Appoints Former LTCM Trader And Chairman Of TBAC As Replacement | ZeroHedge
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Now… Matt Zames… Matt Zames… where have we heard that name before… OH YES: he just happens to be the Chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, aka the TBAC, aka the Superommittee that Really Runs America. The Matt Zames who… “previously worked at hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management LP, may have benefited as the…
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FT Alphaville » The “other reportables” oil mystery
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From John Kemp at Reuters on Monday (our emphasis): Hedge funds and other money managers reduced their long position in U.S. crude by the equivalent of nearly 54 million barrels of oil, the largest one-week decline since at least June 2006, according to data released by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.…
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Treasury Market Panic Reversal Due To Little Known Forces Called Supply and Demand
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The Treasury market panic saw a bit of a reversal this week, partly due to an unexpected, large increase in supply because of a sharp drop in Federal tax revenues over the past couple of weeks, and partly due to the market misunderstanding of Thursday morning’s news. The “better than expected” weekly unemployment claims data…
