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		<title>Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson puts his money on Citigroup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to a regulatory filing, Hedge Fund manager John Paulson&#8217;s of the $12.5 billion Paulson &#038; Co. bought 300 million shares of Citigroup worth $1.45 billion. This move puts Paulson &#038; Co. alongside other hedge funds such as Appaloosa Management LP who acquired 79.7 million Citigroup shares in the third quarter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. pay czar says he can &#8220;claw back&#8221; exec compensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration&#8217;s pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and &#34;binding&#34; authority over executive compensation, including the ability to &#34;claw back&#34; money already paid, and he is weighing how and whether to use that power. Feinberg told Reuters that Citigroup Inc included the contract of energy trader Andrew Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BofA shares jump after exec, hedge fund buy shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press &#8211; Shares of Bank of America shot up Thursday as a new executive at the bank, as well as a prominent hedge-fund manager, decided to place big bets on the company by buying up blocks of shares. Shares jumped $1.07, or 6.7 percent, to close at $17. Sallie Krawcheck, the former Citigroup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing With Phibro: The Best Choice for Citigroup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; Selling a controlling stake in Phibro won&#8217;t cut it for Citigroup, Breakingviews writes. Sure, it would probably quell some of the uproar around the flashpoint that put Citi&#8217;s full ownership of Phibro, a commodities trading unit, under public scrutiny: the $100 million bonus due to Phibro&#8217;s boss, Andrew J. Hall, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kuwait financier facing U.S. fraud suit found dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; A brash Kuwaiti financier facing a fraud suit by U.S. authorities was found dead Sunday in an apparent suicide that sent shockwaves through the Gulf Arab financial sector. A security source told Reuters that Hazem Al-Braikan appeared to have died from a single gunshot wound to the side of the head, while a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Hedge Funds on &#8216;Radar&#8217; After Beating Peers, Citigroup Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Asian hedge funds are attracting growing interest from investors as managers focusing on the region outperform global peers, said Andrew Hill, director of prime finance for Asia-Pacific markets at Citigroup Inc. &#8220;There are pockets of proprietary money looking to be put to work in Asia,&#8221; Singapore-based Hill said in a June 12 interview. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JPMorgan&#8217;s future in hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FierceFinance &#8211; Not too long ago we were lamenting the trend by top investment banks to move into hedge funds and alternative investments in general. Buying hedge fund firms&#160;and launching them internally didn&#8217;t work out so well for Citigroup. It also&#160;wasn&#8217;t a home run for other firms, notably Bear Stearns.&#160; Has JPMorgan Chase found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajay Relan\&#8217;s CX Partners Achieves First Close of $220 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VC Circle &#8211; CX Partners, a new private equity firm promoted by former Citigroup&#160;Venture Capital International (CVCI) head Ajay Relan, has achieved the&#160;first close of $220 million for its maiden fund. The first close was&#160;made by the fund in March this year, Relan told VCCircle. The fund&#160;plans a final close of $500-600 million by September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance Of Paying Citigroup Bankers Bonuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[24/7 Wall St. &#8211; Citigroup has gone to the Treasury to beg for bonuses for some of its most important traders, people who make the banks extraordinary amounts of money. The Treasury&#8217;s reaction will probably be that it wants to stay out of a fight with Congress and avoid negative public opinion and will turn [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek &#8211; The anger was evident at Citigroup&#8217;s annual meeting on Apr. 21, where shareholders took turns at the microphone to object to how the bank has been operating. The meeting is usually a well-attended affair lasting many hours as shareholders air their grievances, and Tuesday&#8217;s gathering was as somber and full of ire as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record Hedge Fund Closures in 2008 From Madoff, Other Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Over $84 billion worth of U.S. hedge funds shut down last year, compared to just $18.7 billion in 2007, according to the latest data published by Absolute Return Magazine, a unit of HedgeFund Intelligence.&#160; More than 200 funds closed up shop in 2008, with 20 percent or $16 billion of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Caps Stand to Gain When Hedge Funds Jump Back In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seekingalpha.com &#8211; To understand which segments of the U.S. equity market were most affected by hedge fund selling pressures late in 2008, a good place to look is 13F filings with the SEC. These are required from institutional investment managers with US$100 million or more in securities. Citigroup&#8217;s small and mid cap stock strategist, Lori [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PE fund sales get their own market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Blogs &#8211; It seems that private equity fund sales are heating up so much&#160;they need their own market. SecondMarket said today it is&#160;opening trading in limited partnership interests in private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds and fund of funds (the intention to launch into this market&#160;was reported a few weeks ago by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellington Sues Ameriquest Over Bad Subprime Mortgages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Ellington Management Group LLC, the hedge-fund firm focused on mortgage bonds, sued Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and other ACC Capital Holdings units over soured subprime home loans. Funds run by Old Greenwich, Connecticut-based Ellington saw the value of $354 million of investments in securities backed by the loans &#8220;largely lost&#8221; following misrepresentations about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GLG Partners Adds Pendragon Hedge Fund Managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Global alternative asset manager, GLG Partners LP, is teaming up with two of the founding partners of London hedge fund Pendragon Capital, Kaveh Sheibani and Julian Harvey Wood, to focus on event driven strategies. In addition, GLG Partners LP will become the investment manager of the funds and accounts managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geneva banks lost more than $4 billion to Madoff: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Three European banks on Sunday announced a total of about $3.8 billion in exposure to an investment fund run by Bernard Madoff, the U.S. investor accused of running a $50 billion &#34;Ponzi&#34; scheme. The largest banks of both Spain and France, Santander and BNP Paribas, and Swiss private bank Reichmuth &#38; Co became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Trian Partners to Hold Over 50 Million Fast Food Shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge fund Trian Partners said that they will buy about 49.4 million shares of fast-food operator Wendy&#8217;s/Arby&#8217;s Group for $4.15 per share, or about $205 million. &#160;The hedge fund and their affiliates now own about 21.6% of Wendy&#8217;s/Arby&#8217;s, or 52.1 million shares, up from its previous 11.1% stake. In November, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Icahn Ups His Stake in Yahoo, Stocks Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Activist investor Carl Icahn purchased another 6.8 million shares of Yahoo stock last week at a price tag of about $67 million, further boosting his already vast stake in the company to almost 5.5 percent.&#160; According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that stake is equal to 75.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros fund ups Petrobras stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petroleumworld.com &#8211; The hedge fund of billionaire investor George Soros increased its stake in Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro ( Petrobras) to 21.1 million American Depositary Receipts as of Sept. 30 from 11.5 million at June 30. Soros Fund Management LLC made the move as the ADRs tumbled during the quarter to about $44 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official defends $144M decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newark Star-Ledger &#8211; Prompted by criticism from a prominent state lawmaker, the head of the state&#8217;s Division of Investment yesterday defended his decision to invest $144 million in pension funds in a BlackRock Inc.-managed hedge fund in the past two weeks, saying the state needed to act quickly to protect its stake and possibly reap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shareholder Sues CSX, Claims Hedge Funds Were to Blame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; CSX is finding themselves in the middle of another battle, this time with a shareholder who is suing the railroad company along with hedge funds TCI and 3G Capital Partners. Shareholder Deborah Donoghue is seeking the recovery of &#8220;short swing&#8221; profits from sales conducted by the two hedge funds between August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists take Aim on property funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investors Chronicle &#8211; Activist investor Laxey has sunk its claws into yet another Aim-traded overseas property fund. Having built up a 9 per cent stake in Indian township developer Hirco, it wrote to management this week demanding they take action to address the whopping 90 per cent discount to net asset value (NAV) at which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds fear bankruptcy after Porsche squeeze</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Hedge funds were heading for a full-blown row with the German Government last night as it emerged that funds sitting on tens of billions of euro losses after short-selling Volkswagen could go bankrupt. Porsche, VW&#8217;s biggest shareholder, stands to pocket a quick &#8364;6billion (&#163;4.7billion) profit from the short-selling. The London-based Alternative Investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porsche runs down hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe and Mail &#8211; Since many hedge fund managers like to drive Porsche roadsters, it&#8217;s somehow appropriate that the German auto maker just ran them down. The European hedge fund community took a pounding Monday covering short positions in Volkswagen. Shares in the auto company doubled Monday on a short squeeze that came after Porsche [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Wimpey slips as hedge fund sells shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian.co.uk &#8211; Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has slipped more than 8% on news that Toscafund, the hedge fund run by former bank analyst Martin Hughes, has sold a chunk of shares in the business. Tosca, which is said to have lost about &#163;300m in the collapse of US bank Washington Mutual, held a 10.2% stake in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two equity firms buy Lehman&#8217;s money management unit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Herald Tribune &#8211; Lehman Brothers said Monday that it would sell for $2.15 billion much of its money management business, including its prized Neuberger Berman asset management unit, to Bain Capital and Hellman &#38;&#160;Friedman. The sale of the business, more than a month in the making, has been among the biggest outstanding issues for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hedge Fund Like No Other</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/a-hedge-fund-like-no-other.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#8211; Given the panic in Washington over the financial markets, it is virtually certain that Congress will soon pass some form of the bailout plan the Treasury put forward last week. This is not an ideal proposal, particularly since it does not address the underlying problem with mortgages and negative housing equity. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds suffer further pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; The bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers is another blow for the hedge fund industry, but at least the damage is limited from here for funds exposed the U.S. investment bank. Even legendary fund manager George Soros, who runs around $18 billion (10 billion pounds) in assets, is likely to have been affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Rebukes Republic Services</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/hedge-fund-rebukes-republic-services.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal &#8211; Hedge fund Elliott Associates LP made public a letter to Republic Services Inc. in which it said the company&#8217;s board wasn&#8217;t doing its duty by fully considering the raised $6.73 billion takeover bid from Waste Management Inc. The fund, which said it is a &#34;meaningful&#34; shareholder in the company, asserted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds force Orient Express to hold meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Standard &#8211; Tatas&#8217; voting powers in Bermuda-based hotel firm to rise if shareholders approve reclassification of shares. The Tata group-controlled Indian Hotels Company&#8217;s voting power in Orient Express Hotels (OEH) will increase if the shareholders vote for annulling the powers of its class B shares. This, if it goes through, will be beneficial for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Chicago Cubs bids likely in weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Final bids for the Chicago Cubs will likely be due late September or early October, two sources said on Thursday, as owner Tribune Co seeks to sell the storied baseball team by the year end. The next stage in the drawn-out sale of the team, its landmark stadium and a cable TV network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Woolworths investor says no to GBP50m takeover offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Woolworths&#8217; biggest shareholder has thrown his weight behind management in rejecting Malcolm Walker&#8217;s &#163;50m takeover approach, while refusing to deny that he is planning his own bid for the struggling retailer. Iranian property tycoon Ardeshir Naghshineh, who has built up a 10.2% stake in the firm, told The Sunday Times: &#8220;Walker is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cerberus offloads MFI stake to restructuring specialist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph &#8211; Cerberus, the American hedge fund, has sold its stake in Merchant Equity Partners, the owner of the MFI furniture chain, to Hilco and Goldman Sachs. The secretive investment firm was one of the original backers of MEP but is understood to have sold its stake in the furniture chain&#8217;s owner several months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman May Put a Prized Unit on the Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ledger &#8211; Lehman Brothers, the troubled investment bank, is considering the sale of all or part of its prized money management division to private equity firms to raise billions of dollars of capital and ease the pressure caused by losses related to real estate. The move would be the latest by a Wall Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros boosts Lehman stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Billionaire investor George Soros hiked his stake in Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers to 9.5 million shares as of June 30 from 10,000 shares, according to a U.S. regulatory filing on Thursday. Soros disclosed the quarter-over-quarter increase in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Soros raised his stake in Lehman ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ospraie hedge fund loses $1bn on misplaced commodities bets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ospraie Management, the US hedge fund led by Dwight Anderson, has seen about $1bn (&#8364;678m) in value being wiped out of Ospraie Fund, its biggest, over the last 12 months amid misplaced bets on commodities, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The fund, which is believed to have peaked near $3.8bn in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US hedge fund buys $US162m BHP stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age &#8211; Third Point, the New York-based hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, bought a stake in BHP Billiton worth $US162 million at the end of June, adding the world&#8217;s largest mining company to its portfolio. Third Point, known for pushing companies to make changes that increase their stock prices, bought 1.9 million shares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barratt shares soar on hedge fund interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times &#8211; Shares in Barratt Developments led the housebuilding sector higher on Monday morning as it revealed a US fund manager had increased its stake in the heavily-indebted company to more than 6 per cent. Polaris Capital Management, a Boston-based value fund manager, had previously bought a 5.73 per cent stake in Barratt, whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish investor Cevian Capital buys shares in Daimler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Swedish investor Cevian Capital is acquiring shares in Daimler AG in an apparent effort to become a significant shareholder in the German carmaker, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said, citing an unnamed hedge funds manager source. It said financial sources consider it plausible that Cevian Capital could become a Daimler shareholder, adding the former already has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund may increase stake in Alcoa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review- Activist shareholder Highfields Capital Management LP has alerted Alcoa Inc. it may increase its stake in the aluminum maker to as much as 8 percent, a move that would make the Boston-based hedge fund the company&#8217;s largest shareholder. Highfields notified Alcoa last week that it intends to raise its stake, Alcoa said Monday [...]]]></description>
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