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<title>The hedge fund, the stripper and the missing millions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Canada, a hedge fund manager Paul Eustace made the wrong call on US interest rates, lied to investors, lost $208-million, stole about $2 million of client cash, cheated on his wife with a stripper for years and used investor money to give that stripper $1-million worth of gifts including breast augmentation surgery.

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<title>Hedge fund bonanza</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How much do hedge fund managers make? A lot more than ordinary folk.According to a new study, the top 20 private equity and hedge fund managers pocketed an average $657.5 million, or 22,255 times the pay of an average US worker. The top four each pocketed over $1 billion.]]></description>
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<title>Creative Weblogging - an error has occured</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The bizarre failure of the private equity bid for Qantas can be blamed in part on the greed of hedge funds hoping to make extra millions. And on the greed and stupidity of the bidding group Airline Partners Australia and the Qantas board.]]></description>
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<title>Hedge funds should open their books to regulators - Sandy Weill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds should open their books to regulator says former Citigroup chief executive officer Sandy Weill. The system is rife with risk for investors and markets, he says.

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<title>Hedge funds, politicians and insider trading</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regulators might be moving to crack down on the illegal trade of market-moving information from companies, but hedge funds are tapping a rich source of inside tips and predictions: politicians and the politically connected. They are hiring lobbyists to pick up market-beating tips in Washington.]]></description>
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<title>Systemic risks run hedge funds into lemons</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The implosion of hedge fund Amaranth has raised calls for more regulation but is that a case of shooting the messenger? The real culprits might be the banks. With hedge funds now the biggest clients of banks, changes in banking structure have opened the way for real conflicts of interest.]]></description>
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<title>Where are the next scandals coming from?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where are the next financial scandals going to come from. Check out the hedge funds. And the mortgage industry, the insurance and healthcare sector and defence contractors and profiteers who have struck a bonanza in Iraq]]></description>
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