"If you're at a hedge fund, this is definitely the hot cause," said Joe Williams, the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, a nonprofit group that lobbies for charters and is financed by hedge fund heavies.
While the financial crisis has hit the hedge fund heavies and Russian industrialists who bid up art during the boom, executives say well-heeled collectors are buying art now to bolster their vaults against a coming bout of inflation.
But it's also true that without the hedge fund heavies of great wealth and great gossip beating them to the ground, Bear would surely have "shlepped it through," as we say.
Others also fret that the funds' heavy use of debt and increasing importance to the investment banks who serve them threaten financial stability.
This difference in performance is partly explained by the funds' heavy commitment to telecom bonds, many of which defaulted.
The catastrophe may not stack up quite as high as the $350 billion in writedowns that investment funds and banks have registered in the bond markets, but for small investors all across America whose retirement pools poured 1% to 5% of their assets into opp funds, heavy losses only beginning to surface could be a sizable blow.
The providers also identified several factors that impeded the effectiveness of the intervention, including restrictive eligibility criteria; limited funding; heavy workloads and limited time; competing team member priorities; difficulties communicating with the PCP; and lack of continuity and coordination of care between home care, acute care, and primary care settings.
International funds and funds with heavy commodity bents fell off the cliff of their own excesses.
This has been unfortunate of late, as the bear market has hurt the recent performance of those target-date funds with heavy stock allocations.
Apple makes up more than 18% of PowerShares QQQ, an exchange-traded fund with heavy exposure to technology stocks, for example.
