News tagged with hedges
Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth
There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Nearly half of hedge funds' voluntary disclosures are 'unreliable'
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Oxford University and Duke University suggests that voluntary disclosures by hedge funds about their monthly investment performance are unreliable. The researchers tracked changes to statements ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Hedge fund share restrictions favor managers over investors
Armed with insider knowledge, managers of share-restricted hedge funds sell off their own holdings ahead of their investors in order to avoid low returns produced by an outflow of shareholder dollars, according to a new study ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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New research counters risky image of popular financial investments
(PhysOrg.com) -- They have been called "financial weapons of mass destruction" and blamed for a number of catastrophic losses and bankruptcies. New research by a finance professor at Virginia Tech's Pamplin ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO (Update 4)
(AP) -- Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.
May 14, 2012 |
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Study reveals who profits and who incur losses from provision of immediacy in the stock market
While mutual funds and issue of stocks cause price impact, hedge funds and repurchase of shares decrease this. The doctoral dissertation by Kalle Rinne, M. Sc. (Econ.), studies how demand and provision of immediacy affects ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 24, 2012 |
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Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual fund investors suffered larger losses during crisis
A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 25, 2011 |
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