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Bloomberg – At last year’s Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference, Greenlight Capital Inc.’s David Einhorn told an audience of hedge-fund managers that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. wasn’t disclosing the whole truth about its finances.
Four months later, Lehman filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The conference attendees who followed his advice got a jump on the rest of the industry. They also got a tax write-off since all the registration fees go to cancer research and an art-therapy program for seriously ill children.
Bloomberg – Greenlight Capital Inc., the hedge- fund firm run by David Einhorn, added to its holdings of Ford Motor Co. debt in the first quarter and invested in EMC Corp., Harman International Industries Inc. and Pfizer Inc.
The hedge fund bought Ford’s high-yield, high-risk bank loans at an average price of 37 cents on the dollar starting in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a May 1 letter the New York-based Greenlight sent to investors. The debt rose to 45 cents on the dollar when the first quarter ended, said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News.
