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HFRX Monthly Indices – December 2011 Performance

The December 2011 performance of the HFRX Monthly Indices has been published at www.hfrx.com

UTI: Does top job have to go only to a finmin favourite?

What’s so special about the top job in a public sector fund like UTI Mutual Fund that ministry advisors are willing to wait for more than a year to secure it for their favoured nominees? One answer is the profile – which faceless bureaucrats crave. And the other aspect in money.

Changes in fund management responsibilities- Tata MF

Tata Mutual Fund has announced changes in the fund management responsibilities

Total Stock Market Index Funds

What are total stock market index funds? Find out how to use total stock market index funds, which ones are the best and if you should use them.

Franklin Templeton MF declares dividend under two schemes

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund declared dividend under two open ended schemes Franklin India Bluechip Fund and FT India Dynamic PE Ratio Fund of Funds, the record date for whcih has been fixed on January 27, 2012.

Draghi Makes Euro Carry Trade Favorite!

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Draghi Makes Euro Carry Trade Favorite!| Mario Draghi

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi

Borrowing in euros and investing in the currencies of Australia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea has returned 7.8 percent since the European Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Nov. 3 for the first time in more than two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. So- called carry trades funded with yen have lost 0.3 percent and gained 1 percent when financed with dollars.

While a debt crisis entering its third year has driven the region’s shares to the cheapest levels since 2004 compared with the U.S. and the sovereign-bond market posted its biggest rally on record last month, euro bears say the currency won’t rebound anytime soon to wreck carry-trade profits. With government austerity measures threatening growth, ECB President Mario Draghi may have to cut rates to prop up an economy the World Bank expects to contract.

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Noam Gottesman Appointed Non-Executive Chairman of GLG (US)

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Noam Gottesman Appointed Non-Executive Chairman of GLG (US)|On 17 January 2012, Noam Gottesman, a founding partner and Principal of GLG Partners, Inc., stood down as co-CEO of GLG and has taken on the role of non-executive…

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Barry Rosenstein’s Jana Partners buys 5.5% stake in Marathon Petroleum

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Barry Rosenstein’s Jana Partners buys 5.5% stake in Marathon Petroleum|Activist hedge fund manager Jana Partners LLC revealed this week that it owns a 5.5% stake in Marathon Petroleum Corp. According to a filing with the…

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Snowmen and Shovels: Investing Lessons?

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Snowmen and Shovels: Investing Lessons?|I live near New York and woke up this morning to our first snowstorm of the winter (we had a freak one in the fall but no snow in November and December)….

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Bob Treue’s Barnegat Fund up 462.41% since Launch

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Bob Treue’s Barnegat Fund up 462.41% since Launch|Barnegat Fund Management Inc, a Hoboken-based Hedge Fund Manager, has revealed that its flagship Barnegat Fund was up +11.13% in 2011, outperforming Global…

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New York City retains crown as Hedge Fund Hub of the World; Top 100 oversee $350 Billion

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|New York City retains crown as Hedge Fund Hub of the World; Top 100 oversee $350 Billion|The list of the Top 100 U.S. Equity Hedge Funds from the greater New York City area has been released, revealing that the top hedge funds oversee a combined…

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Mount Lucas Sues Rival Over Quant Model

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|Mount Lucas Sues Rival Over Quant Model|Mount Lucas Management, well known for its quantitative approach to futures
trading, has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against rival quant manager
Alpha Financial Technologies. In a complaint filed last month in New York,
the Newtown, Pa., firm accuses Alpha Financial of using a Mount Lucas program
to manage a proprietary index called ATF Diversified Trends Indicator. Both
Mount Lucas and Alpha Financial, a Grapevine, Texas, firm headed by famed
futures trader Victor Sperandeo, manage hedge funds based on proprietary
indexes that track commodity and financial futures. Im comfortable were in
the right, said Sperandeo, better known as Trader Vic. His firm has yet to
file a formal response. What prompted the lawsuit A routine review of
competitors funds by Mount Lucas law firm, Leason Ellis of White Plains, N.Y.
Lawyer David Leason insists Mount Lucas isnt out to damage Alpha
Financials business. Mount Lucas interest is that it receives a fair
royalty, he said. Although Mount Lucas has been in business for 25 years,
its patent was filed three years later than a similar patent held by Alpha
Financial, founded in 2000. But patent law can be counter-intuitive, said
Bernard Rhee, a patent attorney at Technology and Business Law Advisors of
Baltimore. If someone builds a better mousetrap, he said, the newer patent can
nullify the effect of an earlier one. But when the patents involve an idea
such as an investment process, disputes are notoriously hard to resolve. Th…

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HFRX Monthly Indices – December 2011 Performance

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|HFRX Monthly Indices – December 2011 Performance|The December 2011 performance of the HFRX Monthly Indices has been published at www.hfrx.com

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HFR, Inc. releases HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report for Year End 2011

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

|HFR, Inc. releases HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report for Year End 2011|HEDGE FUND INVESTORS ROTATE INTO MACRO, ARBITRAGE STRATEGIES FOR 2012.
Performance gains in 4Q offset modest net outflow as total hedge fund assets retake $2 Trillion mark;
Net Inflows for 2011 exceed $70 Billion, highest since 2007.

CHICAGO (January 19, 2012) – Total capital invested in the hedge fund industry regained the $2 trillion milestone to conclude 2011, according to data released today by HFR (Hedge Fund Research, Inc.), the leading provider of data, indices and analysis of hedge funds. The industry originally eclipsed $2 trillion in AUM in 1Q11 and peaked at $2.04 trillion at mid-year before declining to $1.97 trillion to end the volatile 3Q11. Total hedge fund AUM finished the year at $2.01 trillion, as 4Q11 performance gains offset a nominal net capital outflow of $127 million, a figure representing approximately 0.007% of total industry AUM. For the full year 2011, investors allocated $70 billion of net new capital to hedge funds, a volatile performance year in which the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index declined by -5.0 percent, only the 3rd calendar year decline since 1990.

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Calculate your home loan with calculators

Posted by managedfx on January 23rd, 2012

The banking sectors in India have developed at a very fast rate and it continue growing every year. The best part is that these banks enhance themselves according to the dynamic changes in the technology; drastic trends of lifestyles; regional developments; national induction of rules and regulations, etc…

If you visit any bank’s official website, then you can see an advanced usage of technology and dynamic varieties of options to choose from; for example, the options are categorized under various sections, such as, first time home buyers; buyers living in a rented house currently; non-resident options; home loan insurance; supporting documents for citizens, NRI people, etc… There are also various options available nowadays to calculate the EMI (monthly payment) for the desired loan amount; banks such as HDFC, Bank of Baroda, etc… are providing such options in their official website.

You could use the options to roughly figure out the EMI amount for the desired type of loan amount.

These calculations differ from one bank to the other; hence the options available would also differ. In general the calculators are with the options like, number of years, constituting the loan period; Return on Investments (ROI); interest rates; equated monthly installments, i.e. EMI, etc… there are plenty of such options available in the online, but these options would definitely help in figuring out your capacity in getting loans; your capability of paying it back; it would also give you an idea about the housing finance industries; type of banks, etc… these calculators would give a fine picture, regarding your investments and the amount that has to be paid back to the bank, but remember, these calculations need not be accurate (not necessarily).

But doing homework with these calculators would definitely help in your conversation with the bank officials/executives at the later stages. It is definitely true that these calculators provide an exposure regarding the current scenarios of the housing finance sectors!

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