Bloomberg - JO Hambro Capital Management Ltd., which oversees about $3.5 billion of assets, will close one of its two hedge funds partly because a bet against Volkswagen AG shares backfired, people familiar with the situation said.
The $240 million Trident European Fund dropped 25 percent in October, its worst month since starting a decade ago, […]

New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Citadel Investment Group announced yesterday it will shut down its $1 billion fund of hedge funds portfolio and use the capital to invest in other businesses.
The Fusion fund was launched a year and a half ago, with nearly 95 percent of the capital coming entirely from Citadel.  The money will be […]

Business Day South Africa - Examiners with the US Federal Reserve have questioned Wall Street counterparties about their exposure to debt and other holdings of Citadel Investment Group, The Wall Street Journal reported at the weekend.
Citadel denied the report.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the j ournal said the Fed questioned the counterparties in […]

Bloomberg - Harry Tyser, manager of the $100 million New Star Firefly Hedge Fund in London, was still trading while being wheeled into the operating room for kidney- stone surgery.
“It’s life and death out there right now,” said Tyser, 40, who used his mobile phone to call in sales before his July procedure. “You need […]

Reuters - Hedge fund Ore Hill Partners, which specialises in credit strategies, has barred clients from redeeming their money from its flagship offering, imposing a freeze just as investors clamored for an exit, the company said on Friday.
The firm, half owned by Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund, put up a so-called […]

Reuters - The commodity half of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens’s BP Capital hedge fund lost 35 percent of its value in July, the New York Post said, citing sources.
The fund is believed to be down about 10 percent for the year, the paper said.
A Pickens spokeswoman told the paper that commodity-fund investors were informed […]

Fort Worth Star Telegram- Citadel Investment Group is bullish on RadioShack, buying 6.9 million shares, or 5.3 percent of the electronics retail chain’s stock, according to a federal filing Monday.
With the purchase, the Chicago-based hedge fund becomes the fourth-largest holder of RadioShack stock — but the only one of the top seven that has been […]

Reuters- John Templeton, a pioneering mutual fund manager, global investor and billionaire philanthropist, died of pneumonia in a hospital in the Bahamas on Tuesday, a spokeswoman at his foundation said. He was 95.
Templeton, who started his career on Wall Street in 1937, created several successful international funds before selling Templeton Funds in 1992 to Franklin […]

Bloomberg- Hunter Shively, global co-head of UBS AG’s commodities business for the past seven months, is resigning to join a start-up hedge fund that is raising money to trade energy futures.
Shively, 38, will stay on for two months to oversee the handover of the commodities unit’s North American energy operations, Jerker Johansson, head of UBS’s […]

Reuters - Wachovia Corp said on Monday it has had significant losses from a Citigroup hedge fund, joining Fifth Third Bancorp, which disclosed its loss in an April lawsuit.
Wachovia spokeswoman Christy Phillips-Brown said a $315 million write-down the bank disclosed earlier in May was related to investments in Citigroup’s Falcon Strategies hedge Fund. Wachovia, the […]