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...The director is James Hawes, who shapes One Life in the inoffensive style of Sunday evening television. The workmanlike approach proves both curse and blessing....
...Winton was 10th largest on the HFM Global Billion Dollar Club list. Five years later, that number has shrunk to three. Winton has closed its California operation and reduced its presence in New York....
...Harding, now chief executive of hedge fund Winton Group, has a different take, to put it mildly....
...Smart reads Gambling on climate change Winton Capital, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, is setting up a new venue where players can bet on the effects of climate change. What’s the goal?...
...Many hedge funds continue to sign office leases in the most prestigious locations at eye-watering rents — and Mayfair and St James remain a draw....
...Among the funds gaining from inflows is Winton Capital, which added $5bn to its assets under management last year through performance and inflows to reach $33.2bn....
...Fearing life inside (and especially amorous cellmates), James enlists car washer Darnell to toughen him up. Darnell is black, so he must have done time....
...Tony James, president of Blackstone, the US asset management group, has predicted “a day of reckoning” that will contract the hedge fund industry by as much as a quarter....
...Winton Capital’s flagship $11.8bn futures fund, managed by former physicist David Harding, has returned just 0.9 per cent in the year to September 23, but 13.85 per cent annually since 1997....
...Harry James Veitch didn’t restrict his interests solely to the nursery business....
...Additional reporting by James Wilson...
...Winton’s machines process the equivalent in 30m King James’ bibles’ worth of information every day....
...recent years as a result of the strong investment characteristics and the predictable inflation hedge provided through a secure, defined and long term income stream, often linked to RPI,” said Piers de Winton...
...Only Winton Capital, the world’s largest quant hedge fund, seemed to have been spared: Winton’s flagship futures fund dropped just 2.5 per cent in May....
...Shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Winton prize, The Viral Storm covers threats from rabies and bird flu to biological terrorism....
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...His tentative support for the FTT – a proposal originally mooted by economist James Tobin in the 1970s but much maligned by other hedge fund managers – puts him at loggerheads with the UK government’s staunch...
...“The key criterion for investing in ground rents is really the income,” says James Agar of Brooks Macdonald Funds, manager of the Braemar Ground Rents fund....
...After returns of 43 per cent last year, Ms Braga now oversees one of the biggest trend-following hedge funds, a group that includes Man Group’s AHL and Winton Capital....
...However, even many of the managed futures funds that did well still saw big redemptions, with Winton’s assets dropping almost $3bn from the summer to $13bn as investors raised cash....
...Other managed futures funds that performed well included AHL, Winton Capital Management, Blue Trend and Aspect Capital....
...James Simons (Renaissance Technologies Corp.) $2.5bn 2. John Paulson (Paulson & Co.) $2bn. 3....
...Diversified (up 29.1%) Horseman Global (up 28.8%) Davidson Kempner International (down 9.8%) Caxton Global (up 11.5%) Nevsky Capital (down 20.9% to Nov 21) Moore Global Fixed Income (up 2.7% to Nov 25) Winton...
...Winton Capital, a big hedge fund specialising in trading futures, has closed a small equity portfolio it ran as part of its Evolution fund because of the rules, as it was not sure its computer models would...
...Lansdowne Global Financial, run by William de Winton, a former Morgan Stanley banks analyst, returned 11 per cent, helped by a quick profit from shorting Barclays....
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