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		<title>Hedge fund Artradis hires RBS&#8217;s Dredge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Artradis Fund Management, Singapore&#8217;s largest hedge fund manager, said on Monday it has hired David Dredge from Royal Bank of Scotland as managing director for portfolio management. Dredge was deputy global head of local markets at RBS as well as its head of local markets trading and risk management in Asia. He is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore hedge fund Artradis hires RBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HedgeCo.net &#8211; Artradis Fund Management, Singapore&#8217;s largest hedge fund manager, said on Monday it has hired David Dredge from Royal Bank of Scotland as managing director for portfolio management. Dredge was deputy global head of local markets at RBS as well as its head of local markets trading and risk management in Asia. He is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$550 Million in Fees for One Merrill Lynch Banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal &#8211; Some numbers are so big you just have to stand back and admire them. An investment banker claiming $550 million of fees in a single year is just such a number. The number is staggering for an industry in which a great year means an investment banker brought in $25 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mathewson hedge fund profits from ABN takeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Herald &#8211; Toscafund, the hedge fund that was a catalyst for the sale of ABN Amro, made &#163;158m profit in 2007 when Royal Bank of Scotland led the disastrous &#163;49bn acquisition of the Dutch bank. The investment firm, whose holding company is chaired by former Royal Bank chief Sir George Mathewson, enjoyed a spectacular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury Select Committee MPs accuse funds of cashing in on misery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; Hedge funds were accused by MPs yesterday of gambling against the taxpayer when they bet that the share prices of British banks would fall. Appearing before the Treasury Select Committee, four leading hedge fund managers were told by John McFall, the committee&#8217;s chairman: &#8220;You&#8217;re snubbing the public; not only that, but you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson Fund Makes at Least $420 Million Shorting RBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Paulson &#38; Co., the hedge fund run by billionaire John Paulson, made at least 295 million pounds ($420 million) since September by short selling Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. Paulson held a short position of 0.87 percent in Edinburgh- based RBS on Sept. 19, according to regulatory filings. The shares traded at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson Pockets Big Bucks on Short Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Billionaire and hedge fund manager extraordinaire John Paulson has reportedly pocketed $139 million by betting against the Royal Bank of Scotland, further fueling cynicism that shorting aids in driving down share prices. &#160; Paulson is no stranger at predicting trends and shorting companies that he feels fit.&#160; Late last year, his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson nets £100m from RBS slide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has made a &#163;100m profit by betting that the Royal Bank of Scotland&#8217;s share price would fall dramatically, according to calculations by the Guardian, adding fuel to the debate about the impact of short-selling on bank stocks. New York-based Paulson, who made more than $3bn by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds may have missed out on bank share slump</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds may have missed out on sharp falls in banks&#8217; shares in recent days because few rushed in after the UK&#8217;s ban on short selling financial stocks expired on Friday, data shows. According to figures from research firm Data Explorers, the amount of stock out on loan &#8212; a good indication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed fears as Lloyds shares crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nebusiness.co.uk &#8211; LLOYDS Banking Group became the latest casualty of the bank sector sell-off yesterday as its shares plunged as much as 47%. Royal Bank of Scotland steadied a little after Monday&#8217;s mammoth 67% fall, but doubts over the Government&#8217;s second bank bail-out and renewed fears for the sector&#8217;s health dragged its rivals lower. Lloyds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Not Behind Sell-Off In Banks Say Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal &#8211; Experts say hedge funds are not responsible for the wholesale selloff in U.K. financial stocks which saw shares in the four remaining major banks dive to record lows earlier this week and prompted renewed calls to the U.K. financial regulator to reintroduce a ban on the short-selling of financial stocks. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCI founder, partner Degorce leaves hedge firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Patrick Degorce, a founder and partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund (TCI), has left the company, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. Degorce was in the public eye in early 2007 when he wrote a high-profile letter on behalf of shareholder TCI to Dutch bank ABN Amro criticising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RBS Faces Losses After US &#8216;Fraud&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/12/2008/rbs-faces-losses-after-us-fraud.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ananova&#160;- Royal Bank of Scotland says it is facing a potential loss of &#163;400m after a Wall Street banker was charged with a massive alleged fraud. US prosecutors say Bernard Madoff has confessed to defrauding investors of $50bn (&#163;33bn) in a giant pyramid scheme that collapsed in the global financial crisis. RBS, in which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s turmoil batters London shares</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent &#8211; The FTSE 100 Index tumbled more than 200 points today after a weekend of financial turmoil in Europe. Investors took scant comfort from Friday&#8217;s backing of a US financial rescue to leave the FTSE 100 Index down almost 5 per cent or 240.5 points at 4739. Banks were under pressure after German mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron hit by new hedge-fund row as Tory Party conference begins</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/cameron-hit-by-new-hedge-fund-row-as-tory-party-conference-begins.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/cameron-hit-by-new-hedge-fund-row-as-tory-party-conference-begins.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online &#8211; The Tory party conference got off to an embarrassing start today after it emerged that the Conservatives have taken large donations from hedge-fund managers whose firms made vast sums of money from taking bets in some of Britain&#8217;s crisis-hit banks. David Cameron, the Tory leader, has accepted almost &#163;2m from hedge-fund managers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US hedge fund Paulson bets big against UK banks</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/us-hedge-fund-paulson-bets-big-against-uk-banks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2008/us-hedge-fund-paulson-bets-big-against-uk-banks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; John Paulson, a U.S. hedge fund manager who gained a superstar reputation with a big bet against the U.S. housing market, was shown holding a 1 billion pound ($1.9 billion) bet against UK banks as short sellers were forced to disclose their positions. Paulson &#38; Co., run by John Paulson and based in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RBS Sued by Hedge Fund Over Withdrawn ABN Investment, FT Says</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/rbs-sued-by-hedge-fund-over-withdrawn-abn-investment-ft-says.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg- Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc has been sued by London-based hedge fund Merebis Capital Management LLP for reversing a 250 million-euro ($395 million) investment in Merebis by ABN Amro shortly after RBS acquired the Dutch bank, the Financial Times reported. Merebis claims in a case filed in London&#8217;s High Court that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embattled UBS wraps up bumper rights issue</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2008/embattled-ubs-wraps-up-bumper-rights-issue.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2008/embattled-ubs-wraps-up-bumper-rights-issue.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Reuters)- UBS has wrapped up a 16 billion franc rights issue, the Swiss bank&#8217;s second effort to resuscitate finances that have been ravaged by the global markets crisis. It is the latest in a line of major banks including Britain&#8217;s Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS and France&#8217;s Credit Agricole to go cap in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA puts pressure on top five banks to support Bradford &amp; Bingley</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/06/2008/fsa-puts-pressure-on-top-five-banks-to-support-bradford-bingley.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times Online- The Financial Services Authority took the unprecedented step of pressuring Britain&#8217;s five biggest banks into supporting the revised rescue capital-raising at Bradford &#38; Bingley last week, The Times has learnt. HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and HBOS are understood to have each agreed to sub-underwrite &#163;20 million-worth of the reworked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RBS Rises on Speculation Hedge Fund Will Seek Breakup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc led gains for European banking stocks on speculation that demand for its rights offer is strong and a U.K. hedge fund is buying shares to push for a breakup. Edinburgh-based RBS, Britain&#8217;s second-biggest bank, rose 8.3 percent to 244.75 pence in London trading. Investors are speculating that [...]]]></description>
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