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Name: Dave Tug
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Hedge funds have been around since the fifties but only grew in popularity in the 1960s. With big names like George Soros and Michael Steinhardt, fund management gained a high profile within the investment community and beyond. During this time, what didn’t gain quite the exposure was what a hedge fund actually did.
Hedge funds are [...]
Hedge funds are very similar to mutual funds except for fewer regulations and therefore can invest in a broad range of investments including shares, debt, commodities and so forth. Hedge funds have the freedom to seek to offset potential losses in the principal markets invested in by hedging their investments using a variety of methods, [...]
Florida not only hosted four PGA tour events in 2009 -the Players Championship, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and the World Golf Championships-CA Champsionship; the sunshine state is also the home of Tiger Woods -current number one, Arnold Palmer and even the Golf Channel. Apart from that, there are several courses which have been [...]
General Growth Properties (GGP), America’s second-largest mall owner, shut it’s doors because it could not refinance it’s short term debt. Many other property owners are in negative equity or have insufficient positive equity to meet banks tougher criteria for refinancing, if their bank has the capital.
GGP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 16th. [...]
Miami is one the most flamboyant and seductively interesting areas in Florida. It is located on the edge of the Caribbean, with palm trees and fountains around every corner; it is easy to find your way around Miami when you are visiting. If you are on a family holiday, a week would probably be the [...]
It was thanks to the cinema and the music how t-shirts became a main item amongst youngsters’ fashion. Marlon Brando and James Dean introduced this trend back in the sixties, with a defiant, rebel and aggressive attitude which clashed with formalities of the age.
The t-shirt itself was considered until the earliest ’20s an underwear piece [...]
Chancellor Alistair Darling bowed to pressure last night and cut the planned 5% rise in business rates that was threatening to cripple many small firms.
In a last-minute reprieve, Darling said that the rate rise, which applies only in England at present, would be scaled back to 2% this year, and that businesses could spread payments [...]
Commercial Property Funds see rich pickings from the carnage in commercial real estate, stockpiling cash to buy discounted loans that may cost banks billions of pounds in the coming years.
Mortgages supporting high-profile office or shopping mall deals are in dire need of refinancing after a record crash in prices in 2008 that has hit commercial [...]
MS Oasis of the Seas
Currently under construction, SM Oasis of the Seas is called to be the largest passenger cruise ship in the world. She will have 16 passenger decks, with 2,700 rooms and 28 state-of-the-art loft suits, which will host around 5,400 passengers. She also introduces the neighbourhood concept, similar to a theme park [...]
PFI now means Public Finance Initiative as Treasury directly supports stalled projects with £2 billion
The government said today it would support public building projects worth billions of pounds at risk of being stalled by the credit crisis.
“The action will ensure that crucial and valuable public investment will not be disrupted by problems in the financial [...]