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2 unusual facts about Hedge


Coprosma rugosa

It is considered a very hardy shrub and is suitable for hedging.

Hedge

In mild climates, more exotic flowering hedges are formed, using Ceanothus, Hibiscus, Camellia, orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata), or lillypilly (Syzygium species).


Acquavella Galleries

In 2006, the gallery brokered a deal for the sale of a Picasso painting, Le Rêve, by the Las Vegas-based magnate Steve Wynn to the hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, for $139 million.

Alternative investment

The Goizueta Business School at Emory University has established the Emory Center for Alternative Investments to provide research and a forum for discussion regarding private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital investments.

Ardfin Estate

In November 2010, the Ardfin Estate was purchased by Greg Coffey, an Australian hedge-fund manager.

Bee bole

The arrangement of 'hedge alcoves' sometimes seen in formal gardens may be a form of bee bole, such as at Erddig Hall in Clwyd, Cymru.

Bernard Lietaer

He co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency management firms; GaiaCorp, and managed an offshore currency fund (Gaia Hedge II) which was the world's top performing managed currency fund during the 1987-91 period he ran it.

Bill Lipschutz

In 1995, with former Cornell classmates Lipschutz formed Hathersage, a currency hedge fund manager company where he is the Principal and Director of Portfolio Management.

Brookfield Asset Management

In January 2012, two hedge fund creditors, Trilogy Portfolio Co. and Canyon Value Realization Fund LP, in a loan with Brookfield, filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington asking that the court restrain Brookfield's attempt to acquire the Kerzner International properties from closing.

Castle Waiting

The story begins with a stand-alone, prologue tale, Castle Waiting: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, which retells the story of Sleeping Beauty mostly from the perspective of those at the periphery of the action.

Cathy O'Neil

In June 2007 Cathy started four years working in the finance industry, including two years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw.

Commodities Corporation

Jack D. Schwager, an author on financial topics and hedge fund manager

Cynthia Hedge-Morrell

District 97 roughly covers the same area as District D. Hedge-Morrell and her spouse were among the participants in movie director Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts.

Effy Stonem

In the two-part episode, "Fire", set three years after the ending of Series 4, Effy, now 21, is living in London with Naomi, with whom she now has a close relationship, and working a dead-end job as a receptionist in a high-profile hedge fund.

Eric Mindich

In late 2004, he left Goldman to launch his own hedge fund, named Eton Park Capital Management, sized at more than $3 billion at the time.

Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

Fletcher Steele

His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water steps.

Glenn Dubin

In 1987, Dubin was asked by fellow hedge fund manager and close friend Paul Tudor Jones to join him and Peter Borish in a venture philanthropy project Jones had conceived and started.

He was joined in 1984 by childhood friend Henry Swieca, and the pair started Dubin & Swieca, an early "fund of funds" business that constructed multi-manager hedge fund portfolios guided by the principles of modern portfolio theory.

Gregory Zuckerman

Zuckerman has twice been part of a team which won the Gerald Loeb Award for breaking news coverage: first for coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors in 2007, and then for coverage of the demise of telecom provider WorldCom in 2003.

Hedge fund

Of that period the best known today is the Graham-Newman Partnership, founded by Benjamin Graham and Jerry Newman, which was cited by Warren Buffett in a 2006 letter to the Museum of American Finance as an early hedge fund.

Hedge maze

In The Shinning, a parody of The Shining from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, Bart cuts a new path through the hedge maze, rather than complete it fairly.

Hedge trimmer

Tractor-mounted and tractor-driven hedge trimmers also exist, but are not that common.

Hedge wizard

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels, the term 'hedge wizard' is used to describe a wizard who specializes in the magical properties of plants.

Highland Capital

Highland Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar distressed investment firm and hedge fund and mutual fund manager based in Dallas, Texas

Hönig

Jonathan Hoenig (born 1975), managing member at Capitalist Pig hedge fund

Houghton Hall

Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has created a sarcophagus-like marble structure which is sited at the end of a path; and nearby is a copper-beech hedge which is planted in lines mirroring Sybil’s signature.

Hylocereus undatus

There is a locally famous cacti hedge on a lava rock wall of the Punahou School in Honolulu, the hedge of Kapunahou.

Johan Bollen

As a result on his work on predicting the stock market based on twitter mood, Derwent Capital Markets started the Absolute Return fund, the worlds's first Twitter hedge fund.

Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records

Kennedy Mitchell's son, Kennedy Mitchell, is a currency trader, published author, and hedge fund manager.

Lago Agrio oil field

In order to finance the litigation, New York lawyer Steven R. Donziger, who acted as a spokesman and lobbyist for the plaintiffs, had sold a percentage of the final settlement to a hedge fund.

Lone Pigeon

The 'Honda Hedge' album, which was available only by mailorder, contains early versions of several of the songs later to appear on The Aliens' 'Astronomy for Dogs' (see below), including "Robotman", "Tomorrow", "Only Waiting" and "Honest Again".

Madeleine Cemetery

Desclozeaux had taken note of the sites where the King and Queen were buried and reputedly surrounded them with a hedge, two weeping willows, and cypress trees.

Mark Kingdon

Mark E. Kingdon, hedge fund manager and president of Kingdon Capital Management

Meikleour Beech Hedges

The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s) (European Beech = Fagus sylvatica), located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, alongside the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie Road, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate.

The hedge is noted in the Guinness World Records as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 30 metres (100 ft) in height and 530 metres (1/3 mile) in length.

Michael Hintze

Hintze was ranked #5 on Financial News’ FN100 Most Influential list in the hedge fund category.

More Money Than God

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010) is a financial book by Sebastian Mallaby published by Penguin Press.

New Spring

It is produced by DB Pro, who previously adapted "The Legend of Huma" by Richard A. Knaak and "The Hedge Knight" by George R. R. Martin and published by Red Eagle Entertainment.

Orto Botanico Conservativo Carlo Spegazzini

It currently contains over 500 plants representing about 30 species, organized into the following zones: a hedge; collection of Prunus species; traditional vines and mulberry trees; and two ponds.

Preston Robert Tisch

She is divorced from Donald Sussman, the founder of Paloma Partners, a hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut with $1.5B under management.

Steven Kropper

Investing in firms like Siemens or GE which offer a diversified portfolio of fossil generation technology, energy efficiency and wind power implies a hedge strategy that mostly goes 'short on the Earth', but has some long position in renewables and conservation.

Su Su Bobien

Bobien ’s vocals have been remixed by the most elite producers in the industry, including Junior Vasquez, CeCe Rogers, Tony Humphries, Little Louie Vega, Frankie Knuckles, Kevin Hedge, Josh Milan, Big Moses, Eric Morillo, Ron Caroll, Ruben Toro and a multitude of other musical talent.

Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

Senator Chuck Grassley has requested detailed information from Waterfall about its transactions and Sanders has asked Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke for more detailed information on loans made to Waterfall, former Miami Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga and John Paulson, a hedge fund manager.

The Magic Hedge

"The Magic Hedge" was a single release by Unwed Sailor, recorded as a ten-minute jam between Johnathon Ford, Nic Tse, Matthew Johnson, Dan Burton, and Joseph Brumley.

Tom McKillop

ABN chief executive Rijkman Groenink suspected RBS of acting in concert with the hedge fund Tosca, which was chaired by former RBS Chairman Mathewson and recommended the takeover bid of an RBS consortium, against the proposed merger with Barclays Bank.

However, in early 2007, the Dutch bank ABN AMRO was under pressure from hedge funds, including Chris Hohn of the hedge fund TCI, to break itself up in order to maximise shareholder value.

Wallstrip

Creator Howard Lindzon, a small-sized hedge fund manager, described his vision for the show in the first teaser.

Wild morning-glory

Calystegia sepium, a subcosmopolitan species also called hedge bindweed.


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