Tag Archives: cnet
The last-minute surprise that is ‘maintaining consumer confidence’
Times Online- Proper consultation is the rock upon which good regulation is founded. And for the Financial Services Authority, consultation is in its DNA. So when it does the unthinkable and drops a bombshell without warning or discussion — as […]
A Hedge Fund and Its Nonprofit Twin
New York Times- Christopher Cooper-Hohn and his wife, Jamie, follow a simple economic formula: he makes money, and she gives it away. Mr. Cooper-Hohn runs the Children’s Investment Fund, or T.C.I., a successful — and controversial — hedge fund that […]
Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Probed by SEC
The New York Sun – Suspicions that illegal insider trading may have preceded the year’s biggest and most publicized corporate takeover attempt — Microsoft’s hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo — have prompted the Securities & Exchange Commission to commence […]
Hedge funds push boat out for Ark charity
Times Online- This week, some of the City’s wealthiest people will descend on a lavish party in London intent on giving away a large chunk of their personal fortunes. More than 1,100 will pile into the Absolute Return for Kids […]
Arpad Busson, a hedge fund
Times Online- Arpad Busson was 10 minutes late. As the 44-year-old financier (who is also actress Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) hobbled through the door of his Mayfair boardroom, it became apparent why. “I’ve done my back in,” said Busson, in a […]
