Investment Perspectives
OPEC Misses a Public Relations Opportunity
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
With economies in complete disarray on a global basis, one of the few bright spots has been the massive correction in oil. It was widely speculated that oil was in a bubble and that speculation turned into a stark reality with oil dropping below 50% off its July Read More...
Obama and McCain: Does Wall Street Know Who Could Bring Back Market Confidence?
By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Election campaigns are in high gear right now and everyone has an opinion on just about everything when it comes to which candidate would be better for who and what. I lost faith in the common sense of the average voter, not just in the United States but Read More...
Can Private Alternative Investments Hedge Against Equity Based Hedge Fund losses?
I recently spoke at the World Alternative Investment Summit in Niagara, Canada, and for such a prestigious, well organized event, I was somewhat surprised by the lack of attendance and the overall mood of the conference. We all know that times are tough for hedge funds right now, but the performance numbers don’t speak as Read More...
Alternatives a Good Idea When Even Buffett isn’t Spared From the Economic Downturn
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 Read More...
Hedge Funds Weary to Invest in Freddie, Fannie: Government Bailout May be Inevitable
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 Read More...
Commercial Real Estate: Can It Weather the Credit Crisis and a Downturn?
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 Read More...
How Small Funds Outperform Large Funds: A Classic David vs. Goliath
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 Read More...
Hard Money is Becoming Harder
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 Read More...
Are US Dollar Investments A Hedge For Canadian Investors?
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. Read More...
The Alternative Investment Debate of Debt vs. Equity
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 Read More...
