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...Patrick Ghali, managing partner at Sussex Partners, which advises clients on hedge fund investments, said there had been a “huge dispersion” in hedge fund performance in 2021....
...Instead, funds lagged well behind the market last year, and have in the case of many long-short funds looked ill-equipped to deal with Wall Street’s S&P 500 falling 13 per cent, including dividends, in 2022...
...But 2021’s retail investor-driven surge in share prices has proved an altogether different challenge for the sector, which itself became a target of some investors on Reddit....
...Chart of the week Like vampires, Freddy Krueger and goldbugs posting dual axis charts of US M2 overlaid with the S&P 500 on Twitter, the Bloomberg Terminal refuses to die....
...Meanwhile, their unusually high fees, which have long proved a stumbling block to some investors, could help them have the pick of talent in a hedge fund industry reeling from the S&P 500’s fastest descent...
...Ever the S-G, at one stage Annan turns round and asks if we are all OK. When 10 minutes later we land in bright sunlight, he looks at the pilot. “You did not tell us a word....
...Joshua Hammer tells the story of Manny Ansar, who set up the event, and Iyad Ag Ghali, a friend who had inspired the festival but is now commanding jihadist fighters and sees the event as an affront to his...
...“In the original script of A Prophet [written by Abdel Raouf Dafri], Malik was much harder, a real criminal,” says Audiard....
...I think it was towards the end of Boutros [Boutros-Ghali]’s term that they agreed to do the Oil for Food programme....
...S&P has assigned a ‘BB+’ long-term senior unsecured debt rating to the bond issue. Egypt is ranked one notch below investment grade by all three major credit ratings agencies, S&P, Moody’s and Fitch....
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