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Small payback belies big impact of 2003 mutual-funds

Seattle Times – Five years ago, the mutual- fund world was rocked by the biggest scandal in its 80-year history. Fund companies gave some customers trading privileges that weren’t open to everyone; those special interests — notably some hedge funds […]

More to play for in hedge funds

Reuters UK – The hedge fund industry’s trade-of-the-moment — betting on falling financial stocks and rising commodities — is set to offer further profits, despite July’s setback, but managers may have to alter their tactics. Hedge funds may well profit […]

FRM Seeds Asset-Based Lending Hedge Fund

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Victory Park Capital, a Chicago-based hedge fund, has received a vote of confidence from FRM Capital Advisors in the form of a major investment.  Victory Park Capital plans on expanding their asset-based lending fund in hopes […]

Man who foresaw credit crunch pays himself £28m

Irish Independant – The fund manager who predicted that the credit crunch would rip a hole through the banking sector has been rewarded with £28m (€35m) in pay and bonuses. Crispin Odey trousered the bulk of the profits made by […]

Housing plan signed, but concerns linger

San Francisco Chronicle- The giant housing rescue plan President Bush signed Wednesday might help stanch the bleeding in the housing market, but experts on both sides of the political divide worry that it is, at best, only an emergency step. […]

Tokio Marine to buy Philadelphia Cons

Reuters Tokyo- Tokio Marine Holdings Inc plans to buy non-life insurer Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp for about $4.7 billion (2.4 billion pounds), in the largest acquisition by a Japanese financial firm in the United States. Tokio Marine, Japan’s largest non-life […]

Vulture funds close in as Martinsa Fadesa falls

Reuters UK- Spanish property firm Martinsa Fadesa’s demise is a sign hedge funds are pushing hard to make profits out of ailing companies and may cause insolvencies in Spain to speed up. Hedge funds which bought Martinsa Fadesa debt at […]

A Hedge Fund and Its Nonprofit Twin

New York Times- Christopher Cooper-Hohn and his wife, Jamie, follow a simple economic formula: he makes money, and she gives it away. Mr. Cooper-Hohn runs the Children’s Investment Fund, or T.C.I., a successful — and controversial — hedge fund that […]

Shareholders Approve $7.2 Billion WaMu Bailout

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A $7.2 billion bailout package was approved Tuesday by 94% of Washington Mutual Shareholders in a move that gives private equity firm TPG control of over 50% of the company, says the Seattle Times. Not that […]

Exxon to exit U.S. retail gas business

Reuters- Exxon Mobil Corp said it is getting out of the retail gas business in the United States as sky-high crude oil prices squeeze margins. Those branded service stations may be the most public aspect of Exxon’s business, but they […]

Burlington hedge fund agrees to pay $1M fine

The Lowell Sun – A Burlington hedge fund and its former manager have agreed to pay more than $1 million for trading on inside information surrounding the Citizen Bank’s $10.5 billion purchase of Chapter One. Federal regulators from the U.S. […]