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...time when hedge funds were under increasing scrutiny by politicians and regulators concerned about their growing impact on global financial markets. With total assets of more than $1.8 trillion, the industry has nearly doubled in size since 2004, and the activities of hedge funds can increasingly move markets. The danger posed by these lightly regulated vehicles, which employ strategies such as short-selling, trading in derivative securities, and leverage, to the financial system has been demonstrated before - most vividly by the 1998 implosion of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a giant American hedge fund that lost $4.4 billion...
...Indeed, hedge funds in their original form were designed to reduce investment volatility by profiting in bear markets as well as bull. But some wonder if the industry is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. The number of funds has swelled from 6,297 in 2003 to nearly 10,000 today, raising concerns that an influx of young, inexperienced managers will find it increasingly difficult to post market-beating returns. Managers charge a lot for their expertise - typically a 2% annual management fee plus 20% of profits. But with funds multiplying in both diversity and complexity...
...tase me, bro!" - just moments before he, in fact, got tased. The rather dramatic incident, captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube, spawned a catchy new anti-establishment anthem, picked up and repeated mostly by college students. But it has also renewed questions about whether Tasers pose any danger, and whether the police are using them too often...
...capital in the city of Juba, south Sudan, a semi-autonomous region with 6 million residents, now has an annual budget of $1.2 billion and is in possession of most of Sudan's oil reserves. Foreign investors are clamoring to get in. But oil is both promise and danger; Khartoum may not be willing to release its grip on such a resource-rich region. A few weeks ago, Juba's representatives walked out of the national coalition government over the issue of the control of shared oil revenues. While talks are continuing, there are fears of a renewal...
...without having to root for its savior, making religion an organizational conviction raises plenty of questions. The Rockies don't exclude non-Christians - pitcher Jason Hirsh is Jewish - but if "Christian values" seep too deeply into the team's thinking, isn't discrimination, even of the subconscious kind, a danger...