sorry if this has been posted before and the absence of a link, but here is something from the FT that I lifted from another site:
Hedge fund’s 1000% subprime return
Californian hedge fund Lahde Capital has made more than 1,000 per cent return this year by betting against US subprime home loans, making it one of the world’s best-performing funds of all time. Mr Lahde, whose fund is one of the smallest specialists shorting subprime, has now begun to return money to investors, telling them in a letter that he expected the collapse in value of subprime mortgage-linked securities to be repeated for bonds backed by commercial property loans in a deep recession. “Our entire banking system is a complete disaster,” he wrote. “In my opinion, nearly every major bank would be insolvent if they marked their assets to market.” He also said he would be putting some of his own profits into gold and other precious metals.
Full Version: Hedge Fund’s 1000% Subprime Return (apparently!)
QUOTE (prophet-profit @ Nov 26 2007, 08:44 PM) 
sorry if this has been posted before and the absence of a link, but here is something from the FT that I lifted from another site:
Hedge fund's 1000% subprime return
Californian hedge fund Lahde Capital has made more than 1,000 per cent return this year by betting against US subprime home loans, making it one of the world's best-performing funds of all time. Mr Lahde, whose fund is one of the smallest specialists shorting subprime, has now begun to return money to investors, telling them in a letter that he expected the collapse in value of subprime mortgage-linked securities to be repeated for bonds backed by commercial property loans in a deep recession. "Our entire banking system is a complete disaster," he wrote. "In my opinion, nearly every major bank would be insolvent if they marked their assets to market." He also said he would be putting some of his own profits into gold and other precious metals.
Hedge fund's 1000% subprime return
Californian hedge fund Lahde Capital has made more than 1,000 per cent return this year by betting against US subprime home loans, making it one of the world's best-performing funds of all time. Mr Lahde, whose fund is one of the smallest specialists shorting subprime, has now begun to return money to investors, telling them in a letter that he expected the collapse in value of subprime mortgage-linked securities to be repeated for bonds backed by commercial property loans in a deep recession. "Our entire banking system is a complete disaster," he wrote. "In my opinion, nearly every major bank would be insolvent if they marked their assets to market." He also said he would be putting some of his own profits into gold and other precious metals.
Ramping gold P-P?
QUOTE (headmelter @ Nov 27 2007, 06:58 AM)
Ramping gold P-P?
gold doesn't need ramping on this forum
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