MARHedge

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MARHedge (or Managed Account Reports Hedge) was a semi-monthly financial newsletter and the most prominent publication focusing on the hedge fund industry for most of its history, which circulated between 1994 and 2006.{{Citation|author=Laura Wood|title=Research and Markets: Marhedge- Analysis of Global Hedge Fund, Fund of Funds and Managed Futures Markets |journal=M2 Presswire|date=October 12, 2005|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20051013005021/en/Marhedge--Analysis-Global-Hedge-Fund-Fund-Funds}}{{cite web |url=http://www.finalternatives.com/node/708 |title=ARHedge Closing Hedge Fund Publication, P.S. We Are Hiring |date=November 9, 2006|publisher=FIN Alternative}} It was originally distributed under the name HEDGE and has also gone under the name Managed Account Reports LLC.{{cite web|title=MARHEDGE|website=Research and Markets |url=http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/307633 |access-date=November 1, 2009}}{{Citation|author=Brian Jordan|title=Hedge funds take losses after Katrina drives big moves in spark spreads, power spreads|newspaper=Power Markets Week|page=1|date=September 19, 2005}} The newsletter stopped distribution in November 2006 after the British financial media company Euromoney Institutional Investor acquired MARHedge.

After leaving the magazine, former managing editor Michael Ocrant said that he and the magazine's staff were misled by industry insiders regarding several accounts, including Bernie Madoff's.{{Citation|author= Michael Ocrant|title=I rang the alarm bells seven years ago but people kept rushing to invest;|newspaper=The Sunday Times|pages=2|date=December 21, 2008|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/i-rang-the-alarm-bells-seven-years-ago-but-people-kept-rushing-to-invest-nsm7tszcbvn}} He was one of the first journalists to try to warn about the returns from Madoff in the MARHedge letter published in May 2001.{{Citation|author=Michael Ocrant|title=Madoff tops charts; skeptics ask how|journal=MarHedge|page=5|date=May 2001|url=http://nakedshorts.typepad.com/files/madoff.pdf}}

The magazine was involved in several large audits of the hedge fund industry,{{Citation|author=Helen Avery|title=AI market round-up: Bling bling! - how managers blow their money|newspaper=Euromoney|page=2|date=November 2006|url=https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1321tv8k6hkjm/ai-market-roundup-bling-bling-how-managers-blow-their-money}} as well as reporting on other major events in the industry, such as the creation of Hedge Funds Care, a charity created with the aim of ending child abuse.{{Citation|author=Paul Waldie|title=Hedge funds try hand at charity fundraising|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|page=1|date=November 10, 2006|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/hedge-funds-try-hand-at-charity-fundraising/article18176896/}}{{Citation|author=Amoryn Engel|title=Loadsa dough for the kids: Hedge Funds Care: Hedge-fund experts get together to fight child abuse|newspaper=National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing|page=1|date=November 25, 2006}}