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BusinessWeek
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Meet the champs of the 2007 Standard & Poor's/BusinessWeek Excellence in Fund Management Awards
There are more than 6,000 mutual funds, but, hey, how many can you name? Chances are the ones you know are offered by giants such as Fidelity, T. Rowe Price..
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BusinessWeek
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Prosecutors are probing whether two hedge fund managers misled banks as well as investors
Federal prosecutors may not be done with former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who were charged on June 18 with lying to invest..
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BusinessWeek
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The recent stream of implosions is the least of the big banks' worries. Money still seems to be pouring into such investment channels
Large hedge funds at prestigious global banks seem to be blowing up routinely. But that doesn't mean the world's large..
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BusinessWeek
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It takes an experienced hand to navigate today's turbulent markets. But if you're looking for a mutual fund that will see you through the morass, don't just look at funds with long track records. Often these are victims of their own success, having become..
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MSNBC
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The top hedge fund managers took home dizzying sums last year, fed by a bull market in commodities and investors’ willingness to pay up for proven track records.
Institutional Investor’s Alpha reported Wednesday the top 50 hedge fund managers earne..
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BusinessWeek
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Prominent investor Joseph Umbach is suing hedge fund Carrington Investment and its manager for putting a freeze on redemptions
Lately it has become quite common for hedge fund managers to slam shut the exit doors—tying up their investors' money for m..
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BusinessWeek
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Hermitage Capital Management alleges that a massive fraud attempt in Russia, which even included the police, nearly made off with hundreds of millions
Corruption, intimidation, robbery, violent assault, forgery, large-scale fraud. No, not the subject o..
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BusinessWeek
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A report from S&P said an end to subprime pain "is now in sight," even as a Carlyle fund collapsed. Gold topped $1,000 per ounce
Despite a wave of bad news on the credit markets and economy, stocks bounced back Thursday on hopes that the end of the cre..
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BusinessWeek
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The fund world buzzed when the Fidelity Magellan Fund (FMAGX), at $45 billion, recently reopened to investors after a 10-year hiatus. Lost in the noise was the sound of many other smaller funds also throwing open their doors—funds led by managers who do..
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BusinessWeek
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When Bruce Bent created the first money market fund in 1970, the prevailing attitude was that any idiot could master cash management. But that was before some of the ultraconservative funds were caught with their hands in higher-yielding short-term securi..
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BusinessWeek
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The first U.S. venture capital fund to be operated from within South Korea sees opportunities in the country's booming, high-tech economy
IDG Ventures, a network of venture capital funds spanning North America and Asia, is embarking on what it consider..
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BusinessWeek
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The SEC is inquiring into the near-collapse of its fund, and Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne's reputation may be on the line
Bear Stearns (BSC) may have a lot of explaining to do about a big restatement of losses at one of its troubled hedge funds—and n..
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BusinessWeek
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GM, Ford, and Chrysler could create a workers' health-care fund in a cost-saving move—and the UAW may well go along
Detroit is at a crossroads. The Big Three carmakers and the United Auto Workers can bargain this summer for a new, four-year labor dea..
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BusinessWeek
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Global investing is hot, and finding a good foreign mutual fund is tough. Of the 16 diversified funds rated "A" in the foreign category by BusinessWeek, only these five are still open to new investors
COLUMBIA ACORN INTERNATIONAL FUND Z (ACINX)5-yr. av..
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BusinessWeek
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The second-largest shareholder in Acxiom plans to fight a proposed buyout by another hedge fund
It's no longer surprising when hedge funds do battle with a company's management, agitating for everything from a board seat to the outright sale of the bus..
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BusinessWeek
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After the average hedge fund failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 in 2006, big investors like CalPERS are starting to complain about fees
The top-performing hedge funds and private equity firms have generated annual returns in excess of 50% during the..
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BusinessWeek
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They encourage frequent trading, which helps Wall Street more than investors, says the father of the index fund
Since he founded Vanguard Group Inc. in 1974, John C. "Jack" Bogle has used his position as a bully pulpit for low-cost investing. But in th..
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BusinessWeek
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Thomas Brown's fund had stellar performance last year. But this year is a different story, thanks to a few big bets on subprime lenders
The reversal of fortune at Thomas Brown's Second Curve Capital hedge fund is stunning.
Last year, the New York-ba..
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CNN
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The U.S. economic slowdown is still being driven largely by a cooling housing market, but any spillover into the rest of the world should be limited as European economies are strengthening, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
However, if..
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ABC News
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Jim Cramer may still be yelling "booyah" on the set of his CNBC program, but a recent confession that surfaced this week on YouTube sounded more like "fooled ya."
Cramer, who co-founded TheStreet.com, made comments in a Wall Street Confidential intervi..
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