Apr

22

Hedge Fund Launch.com Sees Rocky Road for Start-Up Hedge Funds in Months Ahead

April 22, 2008 | 5 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 22, 2008 — Hedge Fund Launch.com sees a difficult environment for start up and emerging hedge funds over the next several months. Fall out from the U.S. credit crisis, losses from “blue chip” hedge funds […]

Apr

20

Hedge Fund/PE Basketball Game; Entire Event Raises Over $700K for NYC Youth

April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

This is good stuff and the kind of thing the mainstream press should note about the hedge fund industry: there is a lot of philanthropy and generosity!
 Last night, corporate sponsors, New York Knicks alumni and NYC high school basketball players came together for a night of basketball at the 2008 11th Annual Net Gain Tournament […]

Apr

20

Weekly Economic & Investment Recap: 4.18.08

April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was, the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended April 18, 2008. Enough with the negativity. No more “gloom and doom”.It’s time for a newattitude. Bring back the bulls.  Apparently folks simply have had enough (at least, for one week that is).  While this week’s […]

Apr

15

New Family Office Association Launches

April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

If you have your own family office or you work for one, I think you should take notice of this new association.  Not only is it very timely, I think their web site is very informative and well laid out.  In corresponding with the founder and CEO, Angelo Robles, he let me know that  The […]

Apr

14

Weekly Investmtent & Economic Recap: 4.11.08

April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was, the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended April 11, 2008. Welcome to 1st quarter 2008 earnings season and consider yourself warned by Thomson Financial (and virtually everyone else) not to expect much.  (And with those low expectations, Alcoa, UPS, and GE did not […]

Apr

7

Weekly Investmtent & Economic Recap: 4.4.08

April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was, the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended April 4, 2008.  So the books on the dismal 1st quarter 2008 are officially closed (and not soon enough) and investors seem intent on moving past the recent negativity. Though financial (more write-downs) and economic (weak […]

Apr

4

Owning a Piece of the American Dream?

April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations John and Suzy Taxpayer, you are now the proud owners of Bear Stearns.  Yes, this could be you should Bear end up filing for Chapter 11 over the next couple of days.  This looks likely as the heroics by JP Morgan and the Federal government has not been able to completely stop the bleeding.  […]

Apr

3

And That’s The Quarter That Was

April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached (linked) please find And That’s The ‘Quarter’ That Was, the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the period just ended March 31, 2008.  As go the first five trading days, so goes the entire year. (Hopefully that is not true this year.)  As goes January, so goes the entire year.  (Hopefully that is not […]

Apr

2

Most Investors Will Miss This Chance

April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Financial Times recently ran a story titled “‘Unbelievable’ chance for hedge funds” and opened with:
“Hedge funds and institutional investors are starting to launch distressed mortgage funds to take advantage of an “unbelievable” buying opportunity, but they say they are running into resistance from risk-averse prime brokers”.
From where I’m sitting, the prime brokers are only […]

Apr

2

Hedge Funds to the Rescue … You Expected Differently?

April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment

It should come as no surprise that the likes of Blackrock and Highfields have stepped in to lend a hand to the stumbling sub-prime mortgage market. They’re hedge funds, that’s what they do.  Government and corporate interventions are slow and laden with bureaucratic red tape.  And when they try to move quickly, mistakes are made […]

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