Investing Symposium is proud to carry this Investment Perspective from Julie Scuderi, Senior Editor for Hedgeco.net, that quotes Michael Facchini, Managing Partner of Regent Global Funds, about opinions on the MBS market.
New York (HedgeCo.Net) - While the U.S. Treasury has done all it can to stave off rumors of a government bailout of Fannie Mae [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Distressed Debt is starting to make a lot of noise in the alternative investment arena and with everyone jumping on the boat; it might be ready to tip.  I have seen numerous announcements of new distressed debt funds and I think we will keep seeing more down the [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Lately, a lot of investors and friends have asked my opinion about the effects of the credit crisis on commercial real estate. You’d have to be living in a cave not to know about residential values falling, but there doesn’t seem to be a general consensus about [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Often investors get caught by marketing like anyone else and become absolutely in love with a brand.  Case in point is that they’ll take lower returns from a large, name brand fund over the higher returns of a lesser known, small fund.  To be fair, the large name [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
This “Investment Perspective” comes straight from the rooms in banks that are filled with the proverbial bean counters known as underwriters that are making the lives of hard money lenders very easy and very profitable.  It’s clear that the banks are running out of both good decisions and [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea comes from an offshoot of an article I wrote a while back called, “Euro’s Have Two Ways of Profiting in U.S. Dollar Investments” where I discussed US dollar investments as a long term hedge for investors holding Euros.  I made a basic argument for the U.S. [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea is about an age old debate about debt vs. equity.  It is interesting to think back a couple of years ago when there really weren’t that many debt funds offering up an alternative investment,  in comparison to the amount of private equity funds, which was the [...]

By: Michael Facchini, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Wouldn’t it be nice if every time someone asked you to borrow $100, they gave you their iPOD to hold onto as collateral?  I’m sure they would be much more compelled to actually pay you back as opposed to conveniently “forgetting” to do so.  Seems like a simple [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s idea comes from some of the recent announcements about how large corporations are using job cuts as an alternative to growth, and in essence keeping their bottom line in shape.  With the economy in a recession, it’s that time again for large corporations to start slashing jobs [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s Idea is just a quick thought about the current market schizophrenia.   On July 12th I saw a headline that read “Oil Hits Record High on Supply Fears” “.  If you were living in a cave and saw this headline you would probably think that there is a [...]