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Building a Strong Portfolio Twelve Ways: Funds Pick Up Interstate Bakeries' Crumbs
By Staff WriterKANSAS CITY, Mo. (HedgeWorld.com)--Interstate Bakeries Corp., a company that filed for Chapter 11 protection from its creditors Sept. 22, is receiving unusual attention from hedge funds--unusual in that, although "vulture funds" often buy the secured or priority instruments of bankrupt firms, these funds are making the more speculative move of...
October 01, 2004
For Europe Funds, Small Is InFunds that invest in European stocks, particularly small caps, have racked up impressive gains in recent years. For the one-year period through August 31, the average...
October 01, 2004
Bedrock ValueThere have been a lot of rumblings in the last few months about the need to shift client portfolios from small- and mid-cap stocks to...
September 27, 2004
Two Thompson Plumb Funds to Join DreyfusSept. 24, 2004 -- Two Thompson Plumb mutual funds are slated to join the Dreyfus family of funds. The boards of the Thompson Plumb Select Fund...
September 27, 2004
Sentinel Loses Two Fund ManagersSept. 21, 2004 -- Mutual fund managers Van Harissis and Scott Brayman have resigned from Sentinel Advisors Co., the asset management firm said. A company spokeswoman...
September 27, 2004
Putnam to Disclose More About Fees, Managers' PaySept. 23, 2004 -- Putnam Investments said it will disclose more information about mutual fund fees, portfolio manager and executive pay, and brokerage commissions in...