By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
With the absolute implosion of global financial markets, the investment world is learning that alternative investments need to be private.  I don’t think there has ever been a better illustration of a “pull down” effect within the last 70 years.  It almost seems ridiculous to keep using the [...]

Summer is over. The children are getting back to school and the world is getting back to business.  One of the things that caught my eye last week before the long weekend was that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, is down around 20%.  If we were talking about anyone else, I wouldn’t be very surprised in [...]

The Managing Partners of Regent Global Funds will be speaking at the World Alternative Investment Summit in Niagara, Canada, that is being held on September 8th to September 10th.  The event is being hosted by Canadian Hedge Watch that is a summit to discuss alternative investments. For more information on this event

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
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: 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 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 [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Today’s idea is just a quick consideration of what I wrote last Friday about alternative investments in light of an announcement by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR), which gained fame by taking RJ Reynolds private two decades ago, will go public on the New York [...]

Do We Need to Change the Definition of an Alternative Investment?
With The Dow giving a clear signal yesterday that our troubles have not passed, yesterday’s traders should be becoming today’s alternative investment cheerleaders.  I think we are finding that with so many economic factors being weighed so heavily by traders, daily betting on which way [...]