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Grannies zimmer on.......
We are pleased to announce that the following 5 Grannies were won at Hedgestock last week:
Lifetime Achievement Award : won by Art Samberg of Pequot Capital Management
Star of NETFEST – Fund : won by BlueCrest Capital Management Limited.
Star of NETFEST – Investor : won by Hermes Pensions Management Limited
The Jimi Award for outstanding contribution to Hedgestock – Founding Sponsor category : won by Bear Stearns International Limited
The Jimi Award for outstanding contribution to Hedgestock: won by Winton Capital
We congratulate all of the above winners for entering so fully into the spirit of Hedgestock.
Please note that voting on all other Granny categories will be determined via a wider poll of qualified residents of Albourne Village. This poll will commence on Friday June 30th.
Watch this space ...
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Hedgestock tickets available at the door after 10 AM
It will be possible to purchase Hedgestock tickets at the door, but only after 10 AM.
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If you think you're coming to Hedgestock, but haven't got your e-ticket yet, please call 0870 350 0269
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Radio Hedgestock - don't forget to tune in on 87.7FM
Radio Hedgestock will be broadcasting at the event on 87.7FM. Be sure to turn on, tune in....and chill out.....
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Ever danced badly in slow motion? - try Tai Chi at Hedgestock
Discover your Inner-bitions....
Fall flat on Mother Earth.....
Give that tree a rest......
Tai Chi at Tent.Albourne, 5.15pm Wednesday June 7th
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Over 4,000 to attend Hedgestock, but licensed for 5,000 - so still a chance to buy tickets
If you register online by the end of the day, you should still receive your e-ticket in time to guarantee access to the hedge fund event of the year......
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Have you planned your trip up to Hedgestock? A few remaining coach tickets from Victoria still available
Tickets are £20 one way, and are available by calling the dedicated booking line +44 (0)20 8811 2858. Please quote HEDGESTOCK when the operator picks up the phone so that they know where to direct you. The booking line will be open Monday to Friday (09.00 - 17.00).
For more information, visit the transport section on the Hedgestock website.
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Financial Times: Hedge funds jump on hippie bandwagon
The Financial Times reports: This is the dawning of the age of hedge funds, and, at last, they are about to have their Woodstock. Even The Who are showing up. It may not quite be three days of peace and music, as Woodstock was billed, but this Wednesday and Thursday, thousands of hedge fund managers, investors and employees will make the pilgrimage to Knebworth House, half an hour north of London, to attend Hedgestock, the "new-age networking event for the hedge fund community".
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Watch the Hedgestock advert - as televised on Bloomberg
Thanks to Bloomberg, Hedgestock has been given some advertising space over the last two weeks. We wouldn't want you to miss out on the advert that we've made for this. It is a Windows Media file. Click here to watch it!
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ECB Takes a Shot at Hedge Funds - Albourne's Ingram Waves the Yellow Card
The ECB’s “Financial Stability Review (June 2006)” includes – for the first time – a section on hedge funds. While it does a sound job of covering some of the well known current issues within the hedge fund space (on topics such as the increase in correlation between hedge fund strategies, the move to some less liquid positions and the effects of the global search for yield), the overall tone of the report presents a disturbingly asymmetrical view of the role that hedge funds play in current financial markets.
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Grannies zimmer on.......
We are pleased to announce that the following 5 Grannies were won at Hedgestock last week:
Lifetime Achievement Award : won by Art Samberg of Pequot Capital Management
Star of NETFEST – Fund : won by BlueCrest Capital Management Limited.
Star of NETFEST – Investor : won by Hermes Pensions Management Limited
The Jimi Award for outstanding contribution to Hedgestock – Founding Sponsor category : won by Bear Stearns International Limited
The Jimi Award for outstanding contribution to Hedgestock: won by Winton Capital
We congratulate all of the above winners for entering so fully into the spirit of Hedgestock.
Please note that voting on all other Granny categories will be determined via a wider poll of qualified residents of Albourne Village. This poll will commence on Friday June 30th.
Watch this space ...
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Hedgestock tickets available at the door after 10 AM
It will be possible to purchase Hedgestock tickets at the door, but only after 10 AM.
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If you think you're coming to Hedgestock, but haven't got your e-ticket yet, please call 0870 350 0269
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Radio Hedgestock - don't forget to tune in on 87.7FM
Radio Hedgestock will be broadcasting at the event on 87.7FM. Be sure to turn on, tune in....and chill out.....
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Ever danced badly in slow motion? - try Tai Chi at Hedgestock
Discover your Inner-bitions....
Fall flat on Mother Earth.....
Give that tree a rest......
Tai Chi at Tent.Albourne, 5.15pm Wednesday June 7th
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Over 4,000 to attend Hedgestock, but licensed for 5,000 - so still a chance to buy tickets
If you register online by the end of the day, you should still receive your e-ticket in time to guarantee access to the hedge fund event of the year......
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Have you planned your trip up to Hedgestock? A few remaining coach tickets from Victoria still available
Tickets are £20 one way, and are available by calling the dedicated booking line +44 (0)20 8811 2858. Please quote HEDGESTOCK when the operator picks up the phone so that they know where to direct you. The booking line will be open Monday to Friday (09.00 - 17.00).
For more information, visit the transport section on the Hedgestock website.
[Back to Main]
Financial Times: Hedge funds jump on hippie bandwagon
The Financial Times reports: This is the dawning of the age of hedge funds, and, at last, they are about to have their Woodstock. Even The Who are showing up. It may not quite be three days of peace and music, as Woodstock was billed, but this Wednesday and Thursday, thousands of hedge fund managers, investors and employees will make the pilgrimage to Knebworth House, half an hour north of London, to attend Hedgestock, the "new-age networking event for the hedge fund community".
The festival features not only Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend headlining what the organisers have dubbed a "kick-asset" concert, but also polo and poker tournaments, and ranks of retro-hippie VW Camper Vans, customised and sold starting at £10,000 a time. It is hosted by Albourne Partners, the hedge fund advisory firm and proprietor of the popular Albourne Village website. In a quintessential hedge fund industry touch, Ashton Mayne of Albourne Partners has a group, called Alphaspin, that will play as support to The Who: a perk of backing the event.
Tom Wolfe recently described hedge fund managers as the most likely modern-day candidates to re-place his 1980s Masters of the Universe from Bonfire of the Vanities. The idea of them joining a love-in with deliberate echoes of the seminal event of the 1960s counter-culture might seem curious, if not downright comical. Indeed, the Albourne Partners founders acknowledge the irony. The Hedgestock website features pins doves and peace signs juxtaposed with slogans such as "Make Money Not War" and "Alpha Male": a reference to thejargon for a manager's ability to beat the market.
Nonetheless, the planners of Hedgestock, which is supported financially and otherwise by 10 of the largest investment banks, are quite serious about the bash and its goals. One goal is simple networking as the hedge fund industry goes global: the event features more than 100 speakers and more than 3,000 "one-on-one" meetings. The bigger goal, the founders say, is charity: all of the profits from the event will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust, the charity that raises money to help children with cancer. The idea for Hedgestock, said Simon Ruddick, Albourne's chief executive, came after "quite a dull hedge fund event in Sweden after which an industry friend said, 'at least if it had been for charity someone somewhere would have benefited from it'."
That germ of an idea led to the notion of a putting the conference in a field instead of a hotel, with a rock festival feel...
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Watch the Hedgestock advert - as televised on Bloomberg
Thanks to Bloomberg, Hedgestock has been given some advertising space over the last two weeks. We wouldn't want you to miss out on the advert that we've made for this. It is a Windows Media file. Click here to watch it!
[Back to Main]
ECB Takes a Shot at Hedge Funds - Albourne's Ingram Waves the Yellow Card
The ECB’s “Financial Stability Review (June 2006)” includes – for the first time – a section on hedge funds. While it does a sound job of covering some of the well known current issues within the hedge fund space (on topics such as the increase in correlation between hedge fund strategies, the move to some less liquid positions and the effects of the global search for yield), the overall tone of the report presents a disturbingly asymmetrical view of the role that hedge funds play in current financial markets.
This is in stark contrast to the more enlightened view shown recently by the Bank of England and also exemplified by Emil Henry of the US Treasury who stated on 24th May 2006, “To sum up, our sense is that hedge funds are fundamentally serving a positive role in the U.S. and global economy by providing market liquidity, facilitating price discovery, and distributing risk”. The hedge fund industry itself is fully aware that any risk taking activity carries, obviously, “risks”, but to lump these together along with “an avian influenza pandemic” misses the point that hedge funds are more likely to be buyers when others are sellers, and that they have materially contributed to dampening market volatility – itself an oft-used measure of market “risk”. It appears that this facet of hedge fund activity is recognised by the central banks out of whose jurisdictions most hedge fund managers operate, and is apparently missed by those that don’t have hedge fund managers on their doorstep.
Guy Ingram, head of hedge fund analysis at Albourne Partners commented “At a time when the global hedge fund community is coming together at Hedgestock in Europe, next week, it is disappointing that the ECB has missed the opportunity to recognise the contribution that this important sector makes to the efficient functioning of financial markets”.
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