Hedge Funds Loan Losses

Hedge Funds Suffering after Racking up Losses from Loans

Hedge funds are struggling to make up big losses after the US financial sector’s losses on large loans exploded in 2009.  Many lenders were hedge funds and at least “one in three dollars lent by non-bank institutions such as hedge funds, securitisation vehicles and pension funds went sour” which is much more than the 11.5% in the traditional banking sector.

The results will increase fears that, in spite of a recovery in the shares and balance sheets of many banks, the epicentre of the crisis has moved to the hedge funds and investors that gorged on cheap credit in the run-up to the turmoil.

The importance of these non-bank institutions was underlined by the review’s finding that they held 47 per cent of problem loans in spite of accounting for only 21.2 per cent of the total loan pool.  Overall, the US financial sector’s losses on loans in early 2009 reached a record of $53bn, nearly triple the previous high in 2002.

The number of loans edging into the danger zone has also surged. Some 15 per cent of the $2,900bn SNC portfolio was classified as “substandard” – the second of the four categories used by regulators – and worse, up from 5.8 per cent in 2008.  Read more..

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Prime Brokerage Profits Down

Below is a note from a recent HedgeFund.net conference about the profitability of prime brokerage. While short-term there is a downtown in volume and assets on the books of many prime brokerage firms, I believe the industry is still very profitable for dozens of firms. While some groups are suffering, many are seeing huge gains in assets over the last few quarters. Here is the article quote:

Prime brokerage is dead or, in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Bros., at least on life support, a panel at a HedgeFund.net conference Wednesday said.

“I don’t think the prime brokerage model is dead, but it is definitely in a coma,” panelist Richard Del Bello offered. Read more…

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Prime Brokerage Profits Down

Below is a note from a recent HedgeFund.net conference about the profitability of prime brokerage. While short-term there is a downtown in volume and assets on the books of many prime brokerage firms, I believe the industry is still very profitable for dozens of firms. While some groups are suffering, many are seeing huge gains in assets over the last few quarters. Here is the article quote:

Prime brokerage is dead or, in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Bros., at least on life support, a panel at a HedgeFund.net conference Wednesday said.

“I don’t think the prime brokerage model is dead, but it is definitely in a coma,” panelist Richard Del Bello offered. Read more…

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Investment Banking Services for Hedge Funds

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Investment Banking Services Profile #2 – Coming soon…If you are an investment consult or run an investment consulting firm and would like to have your bio or firm profile listed here please email me at Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org.

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Hedge Funds in Singapore

Guide to Singapore Hedge Funds

Here is a short collection of articles on the Hedge Fund Industry in Singapore.

I am always looking for more valuable online tools and resources to add to these geographical hedge fund guides. If you have a white paper or PowerPoint that I can include here please send me an email and I will post it to this hedge fund blog for everyone’s benefit.

1. Singapore Hedge Funds related job site
2. Business Week article detailing the suddenly growing Hedge Fund mania in Asia
3. Another article about Singapore as the new home for hedge funds
4. Singapore Hedge Fund Networking events
5. Good historic overview of the emergence of hedge funds in Singapore
6. Interesting article relating pollution in Hong Kong to the growth of hedge funds in Singapore
7. Another hedge fund event in Singapore
8. The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s annual survey of the Singapore asset management industry
9. Japanese hedge funds relocate to Singapore
10. Korean broker launches Singapore hedge fund
11. “Singapore goes alternative” article
12. Another article about the dramatic growth in Singapore’s hedge funds:
13. Hedge Fund administrator boosts Singapore team to address growing demand for hedge fund service providers in Asia.
14. An article about how a top hedge fund manager sets up a Singapore office
15. “Asian hedge fund industry booms” – Singapore is one of the main hubs in Asia for hedge fund activity – here is an article on this topic
16. An article on how Morgan Stanley opens up an office Singapore to service Asian based hedge fund clients
17. Interesting article about Singapore’s mission to lure hedge funds:
18. Article on “How the smallest country in Asia grew into a hedge fund giant”

- Richard

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