Forbes - Financial assets have become so cheap because of the credit crisis that now is a good time to scoop up bargains, the head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, Avenue Capital, said on Wednesday.
‘Now is a phenomenal time to buy, assuming you think we’re not in a depression,’ Marc Lasry, chairman […]

Welcome, I’m Steve Forbes. It’s a pleasure and privilege to introduce you to our featured guest, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick. He’ll tell us why October was his company’s best month ever.
But first…This ongoing financial crisis is driven by fear, not by a lack of cash or liquidity in the global markets. There is no […]

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West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Brotman Capital Partners LP, based in Boca Raton, Florida, has turned in the best performance Year to Date of a Market/Trend Timing Hedge Fund according to Barclays Hedge Fund Database.
Through October, 2008 the Fund is up over 14% net of fees. The fund has a $100,000 minimum investment and […]

AllAboutAlpha.com - Several pundits have recently pronounced the so-called “hedge fund model” to be dead (or at least “upended“).  But is the patient clinically dead, or is it just having an out-of-body experience?  After the recent trauma experienced by the sector, hedge fund administrators will likely play a central role in bringing the industry back […]

Reuters - Blue Mountain Capital Management LLC has temporarily halted redemptions at its largest hedge fund after clients asked to withdraw money despite its "distinguished" performance, according to a letter to its investors.
New York and London-based Blue Mountain said in the letter it had come up with a "redemption and recapitalization plan" to protect all […]

New York (HedgeCo.Net) - One month after RAB was forced to revamp their flagship fund, the British hedge fund is halting redemptions on their Energy Fund. After losing more than 50% of its value this year, RAB has informed investors that they will not be able to make withdraws in the near future.
Investors who wish […]

Metro Canada - A company that will play a key role in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games ended rampant speculation about its financial well-being Thursday by completing a deal to refinance a $1.7-billion loan - just hours before deadline.
Intrawest ULC owns and operates major tourism venues across the country but is best known for its […]

Bizjournals.com - A Minneapolis hedge fund has sued Petters Group Worldwide, alleging it was defrauded out of $60 million in a deal involving “imaginary televisions.”
Interlachen Harriet Investments, a Cayman Islands-based unit of Minneapolis-based Interlachen Capital Group, filed the suit Wednesday, saying that it gave $60 million to Petters Co. Inc. to purchase electronic merchandise such […]

Reuters - The British arm of asset management group Aviva Investors is betting that investor interest in hedge fund-style products will survive the credit crisis and rebound once market turmoil abates.
Paul Abberley, UK CEO, told Reuters Aviva Investors would boost its high alpha and absolute return business in the coming months and expand its investment […]

Here Is The City - Bloomberg reports that CEOs at Wall Street’s top five securities house earned a staggering $3bn between them from 2003 and 2007, during the time when the subprime and toxic securities timebomb was ticking away in the background. Goldman Sachs CEOs were paid the most in this period ($859m), followed by […]

Financial Post - The Canadian hedge fund industry has ballooned in the past few years, with some estimating annual growth at 30%. But there is still plenty of room for more, given that plenty of the strategies, such as risk arbitrage, that have proliferated in London and New York have not yet arrived here.
A near […]