Updates from the Windy City
| Mar 31st, 2009 | Filed under: AAA Newsreels, Today's Post | By: Alpha Male |
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AllAboutAlpha.com rolled into the Chicago earlier today. So if you see our tour bus rolling around the Windy City with the giant alpha symbol on the side, please wave and say hello.
It’s tough to drive a bus and read hedge fund research at the same time though (until leading investment journals launch a “books-on-tape” service). So today we’ve assembled a series of story updates instead…
A few days ago, it looked like stock lending might be on the road to acceptability again. But alas…
Top UK pension fund suspends stock lending-sources: “The BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) has suspended all stock lending on concerns that short-sellers using the shares could further hurt market sentiment, two sources close to the pension scheme said.”
As we reported last fall, the UK Hedge Fund Standards Board was having some recruiting challenges. Since then, the number of signatories has tripled… More…
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Enjoy Chicago! – a great trading city.