Tag Archives: secrecy
Seattle investment firm Quellos Group expected to be indicted in tax-evasion case Thursday
Seattle Times – Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal indictments Thursday in a massive tax-evasion investigation involving the Seattle investment firm Quellos Group, accusing its officers of operating offshore tax shelters used to hide hundreds of millions of dollars from […]
Move Over, Black Boxes: Brains Are Back
Wall Street Journal – Quantitative fund managers, who use computer models rather than human judgment to pick securities, have seen their world turned upside down by the credit crisis. The first generation of managers and their models have moved on: […]
Hedge funds ponder Obama’s carrot, fear stick
MSNBC – Hedge funds are being offered a sweet deal to help the Obama administration rescue the U.S. banking system: A low-risk opportunity to scoop up soured bank assets that could one day make them a killing. But the deal […]
Feds offer hedge-fund deal, with strings
Denver Post – Hedge funds are being offered a deal to help the feds rescue the banking system: A low-risk opportunity to buy bad bank assets that could one day make them a killing. But the deal could make for […]
With Trial Looming, Fate of UBS Looks Grim
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – UBS may have until July 13 to “vigorously contest” the demands of the Internal Revenue Service to disclose the names associated with 52,000 offshore bank accounts, but the vice that the troubled Swiss bank is finding […]
BOE’s Gieve Says Markets Still `Under Acute Strain’
Bloomberg – Bank of England Deputy Governor John Gieve said investors are still facing “acute” stress as market declines force hedge funds to sell assets. “The financial system remains under acute strain,” Gieve said in a speech in London today. […]
CAAM says Brazil best Latin American bet
Reuters- Investors betting on Latin America should be overweight Brazil, the region’s top economy, at the expense of exposure to Argentina, Mexico and Chile, a Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) executive said on Monday. They should also be overweight the […]
