Insurer Taps Former N.J. Prosecutor
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, Oct. 12, 2004, 5:13 p.m. EDTThe international unit of New York Life Insurance Company, New York, has hired Sandra Bograd ...
October 12, 2004
New Firm Forms from Consultancy PartnershipLONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--io Alternative Strategies has partnered with sister company PSolve Asset Solutions to create PSolve Alternative Investments, which will manage io Investors' funds of hedge funds. According to a statement, PSolve, a U.K. investment consultant group, saw greater demand for hedge funds and anticipated that a greater portion of returns...
October 12, 2004
Death by Comet"You never know what is enough, until you know how much is more than enough" -William Blake Someone once told me Myron Scholes said the folks at Long-Term Capital Management thought they had their risk buttoned down. In their minds, they were walking down Madison Avenue, eyes trained on the...
October 12, 2004
In Hedge Fund Returns, a Skeptic Sees Lady Luck in ChargeNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Speaking at a recent seminar organized by the group 100 Women in Hedge Funds, Nassim Nicholas Taleb--author, mathematician, trader and chairman of Empirica LLC--argued that success in money management mainly is due to chance and disasters are inevitable for hedge fund investors. In this view, differences between managers...
October 12, 2004
Fund in Focus: Stratton Small-Cap Value FundJerry Van Horn, manager since September 2000 S&P Rank: 4 Stars Stratton Small-Cap Value Is Putting Up Impressive Returns
October 11, 2004
DeLay Move Leaves Group Life Insurers WaitingInsurance industry leaders are still struggling to win congressional approval of a bill that would extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.[@@]TRIA is set to ...
October 11, 2004
Emerging Markets Produce $188 Billion In Life RevenueNU Online News Service, Oct. 11, 2004, 4:32 p.m. EDTChina already is the eighth largest life insurance market in the world.[@@]Researchers from Swiss Reinsurance ...
October 11, 2004
Firm Hires Mass. Blue Vet For Patient Record ProgramNU Online News Service, Oct. 11, 2004, 12:15 p.m. EDTMEDecision Inc., Wayne, Pa., has hired Gary Austin to be vice president.[@@]MEDecision is a health ...