Goldman Sachs (GS) Provides Hedge Fund Capital

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Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has decided it will make more money providing capital for new hedge funds than putting money into its own.

The new strategy has caused a rapidly rising set of new financings. The Wall Street Journal reports that

The New York securities firm has raised $600 million from clients such as pension funds, wealthy families and large institutions for a new fund. It plans investments in eight to 10 new hedge funds, to get them up and running, according to people familiar with the matter.

The program is not without its own risks. Several large hedge funds have lost a large portion of capital this year because of poor investments  in currencies and stocks. Others have hedged the eurozone situation and lost money as the value of the euro has swung up and down.

Small hedge funds do not have the capital of larger rivals like Bridgewater, which makes the number of investments–and the extent to which they can gamble on each one–harder. Risk, therefore, often cannot be spread

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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