Monthly Archives: February 2009
IAS presents a ‘Forensic’ approach to Due Diligence
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In response to the recent need to restore confidence and liquidity in the mortgage market, Integrated Asset Services, LLC (IAS), a default management and residential collateral valuation company, is introducing iCDA Credit Due Diligence Analytics. […]
Invest In The New York Times?
Forbes – Billionaire Carlos Slim Helu believes enough in The New York Times that he loaned it $250 million for an eventual 17% stake. The Forbes.com Investor Team says don’t copy him. Last summer in the Turnaround Newsletter, George Putnam […]
SEC enforcement chief Linda Thomsen resigns, replacement not named
Lethbridge Herald – The top cop at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving the government less than a week after receiving an angry dressing-down before Congress over the agency’s failure to detect a massive alleged fraud scheme. The SEC […]
Hedge-Fund Managers Help Raise $1.7 Million at Downsized Gala
Bloomberg – The annual Hedge Funds Care benefit – – backed by Kenneth Tropin and Michael Vranos — will downsize from a black-tie dinner to a cocktail party tomorrow night in New York. The nonprofit, which aids child-abuse prevention programs, […]
Wall Street Journal: US to Use Hedge Funds to Loosen Credit
istockAnalyst.com – Yet another story from the department of "I would not believe it unless I saw it with my own eyes" we continue down the path of unintended consequences and the ole run around. There must be some Puritan […]
Database raised red flags on Nadel funds in 2005
Herald Tribune – Partners of failed hedge fund trader Arthur Nadel said they were shocked to learn after Nadel disappeared on Jan. 14 that the six hedge funds for which he did the trading had been emptied of their purported […]
Hedge Fund Bill Won’t Publicize Clients
Investment Consultant – Reports that U.S. Sens. Carl Levin’s and Charles Grassley’s new bill on hedge fund regulation will force funds to publicize the names of clients are untrue, the senators said. "Contrary to some press reports, the Grassley-Levin bill […]
Japanese Hedge Fund 21st Century Asset to Seek Takeover Targets
Bloomberg – 21st Century Asset Management Co., run by former Nomura Asset Management Co. executive Takanori Shimizu, said it may seek growth through takeovers after the worst year on record for hedge funds. Shimizu, 63, said he will also cut […]
Conyers Expands Cayman Islands Team
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Pioneers in the field of offshore law, Conyers Dill & Pearman, (Conyers) is expanding its Cayman Islands presence with three new associates as attorneys-at-law. Stephen Leontsinis has joined the Litigation team, while Tania Dons and […]
GM in Talks to Acquire Stagnant Delphi Plants
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – It doesn’t help matters when a company, who is at the forefront of a government bailout, is expected to provide rescue to another faltering company. But that’s exactly what General Motors has found themselves in the […]
The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
Middle East Online – Can a Hedge-Fund Island Lose Its Shirt and Gain Its Soul? In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United […]
Controversial French Business Tax To Be Abolished
Tax-news.com – Endeavouring to assuage fears and re-establish public confidence in the wake of one-day nationwide strikes, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that local business tax or ‘taxe professionnelle’ will finally be abolished in 2010. Expressing his determination to […]