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What's more, it's not just no-name investors who are suffering the losses. Many of the industry's biggest stars are licking their wounds this year. Last week, Tontine Partners, a formerly $10 billion hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn., told investors it had lost 65% of their money. Tontine's manager, Jeffrey Gendell, made Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2008 with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which became one of the first hedge-fund companies to go public last November, recently reported that its Asia fund had fallen nearly...
...what makes the hedge-fund losses notable is the outsize fees that many investors are willing to pay in the belief that these funds will do well in good times and bad. That's where the name "hedge" comes from. Indeed, by some measures, hedge funds as a group have never had a down year before...
...situation is particularly critical in Europe, where national economies were slowing markedly even before the financial crisis exploded. Most economic statistics in the U.K. and around the Continent already look awful, but the turmoil of the last few weeks will likely make the downturn longer and more painful. "You name it, it's falling," says George Buckley, a London-based economist for Deutsche Bank...
...think it’s more likely that Palin will have a stormy affair with Obama, get pregnant, and name the child Al Gore before deciding to abort it, than that you will pass this class...
...what’s behind this rise in B. Good goodness? Co-founder Jon Olinto says it’s all about getting out the B. Good name and encouraging real face-to-face interaction. “Our whole idea is real food,” Olinto says. “I’d rather spend 500 dollars giving away free mango shakes knowing my cashier Mike is handling each one, than getting a big billboard in Harvard Square...