Tag Archives: mortgage backed securities


Hedge Fund Survey On Obama Regulations

July 1, 2009 : Permalink

HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – A survey by RSM McGladrey, a financial services consultancy, found that hedge fund managers are surprisingly ready to work with SEC regulators to cooperate with authority, despite wide-spread wariness about over-excessive regulation from the Obama […]

SecondMarket Opens Trading of Mortgage-Backed Securities, Whole Loans and Collateralized Debt Obligations

April 3, 2009 : Permalink

NEW YORK, N.Y. – SecondMarket, the largest marketplace for illiquid assets, announced today that it has launched markets for mortgage-backed securities (MBS), whole loans, and collateralized debt obligations (CDO).  Through SecondMarket, buyers and sellers are able to trade these assets […]

Blackstone Falls to New Low as Investors Brace for Another Loss

February 26, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, fell to a record low in New York trading this week on concern that a rebound in leveraged buyouts will lag behind any economic recovery. “Given the economic outlook and […]

Paulson’s Pellegrini Said to Resign to Start Own Hedge Fund

January 7, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Paolo Pellegrini, the hedge-fund manager who helped Paulson & Co. make more than $3 billion in 2007 on bets the U.S. housing bubble would burst, resigned to start his own fund, a person familiar with the matter said. […]

Hedge funds can now borrow from Fed

December 23, 2008 : Permalink

FierceFinance – The government is committed to keeping the wheels of consumer credit greased. To that end, it has launched a $200 billion effort to support the market for consumer receivables.  The Fed announced it will "offer low-cost three-year funding […]