The Edge

Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

Archive for the ‘Hedge Funds’ category

What happens when it’s time to sell the cocoa beans?

The first rule of cornering a market – cocoa beans or anything else – is not to take delivery. It means the speculator has to pay in full and then pay again to store the commodity in warehouses. And a soft commodity such as cocoa beans deteriorates.
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Government and investment don’t mix

Fancy that: governments are poor at picking winners! Why then do they keep trying? Even now, a fund manager is being sought to invest another £150m of taxpayers’ money.
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Criticism begins at home for FSA

Light-touch regulation is about to be axed but self-regulation still exists in one quarter of Canary Wharf. The Financial Services Authority has been allowed to identify its own deficiencies and remedy them. Again.
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TV show makes hedge funds a loser

A reality television show based on hedge funds looks as mis-timed as all those property programmes that are beyond their show-by dates. But is BBC2’s Million Dollar Traders intended to make us envy hedge dealers or hate them?
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