Archive - Mar 18, 2009

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2008 Hedge Fund Liquidations Reach All Time High

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2009 11:54 -0500



According to Hedge Fund Research, that homeless person sleeping on sewer vent could easily have been a 2008 special situations portfolio manager. Of the record 1,461 hedge funds that closed in 2008, more than half or 775 shut their doors in Q4.

 
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Frontrunning: March 18

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2009 11:31 -0500



  • Another bogus econ datapoint: CPI ex food and energy at 1.8%
  • UK Unemployment rises at fastest pace since 1971 (Bloomberg)
  • The disastrous January TIC data (Brad Setser)
  • AIG furor shifting to Goldman Sachs (Reuters)
  • The joke that are retention bonuses (
 
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