Monthly Archives: February 2008

LONDON (Reuters) – Soft commodities will likely outperform other commodity asset classes over the next five years, in large part due to their ties to energy, a senior sugar trader said on Tuesday. Jonathan Boyden, head of sugar trading at […]

Street.Com- For many investors, 2007 proved a tough year. Some hedge funds, like the one run by Sowood Capital, went under, while countless funds underperformed the broader market. Even so, some hedge funds, notably Passport Capital, profited hugely. This San […]

Bloomberg- D.B. Zwirn & Co., the New York-based investment firm that was hobbled by disclosures of improper accounting, will liquidate its two largest hedge funds after clients asked to withdraw more than $2 billion. The firm will shut the domestic […]

Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy, National Energy Coordinator,Department of Minerals & Energy, Government of Papua New Guinea, Kuwait,Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. "I am happy and proud to be working alongside with Joseph and Craig in thisfast emerging sector of investor […]

HedgeCo.Net (West Palm Beach) – Three men from British Columbia are being investigated after the executive director of the British Columbia Securities Commission issued a notice of hearing alleging that they defrauded investors by illegally selling millions of dollars in […]

Financial Times – There are no winners from the British government’s decision this week to nationalise Northern Rock, the mortgage lender. There is, however, an embarrassment of losers. Northern Rock is only one of many troubled banks. Even Credit Suisse, […]

HedgeCo.Net (West Palm Beach) – UK based Standard Chartered has ditched its $7.2 billion structured investment vehicle after assets fell further and “the confines of receivership” took a toll on the fund. The Whistlejacket fund, an SIV that issued short-term […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Tremont Capital Management announced the appointment of fund of hedge fund specialist Susan Crotty as Managing Director of Investment Management Services. “Sue’s extensive experience consulting to a wide variety of institutions on fund of hedge fund […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)-  UK hedge fund TCI has challenged Japanese attempts to control foreign investments. In a bid to boost its stake in Japanese utility J-Power to up to 20 percent, the Children’s Investment Fund, or TCI, has been […]

Bloomberg- Buying art is “a tremendous cultural activity” said Martin Margulies, a real-estate developer who will be at New York’s Art Show on Park Avenue today. “The movie stars want to get in it,” he said. “The hedge- fund guys […]

News.com.au- AUSTRALIA’S investment watchdog is investigating the stock market trading practice of short selling to see if it is adding to volatility in share prices, a Senate committee heard today. Short selling is a common practice among private investment funds, […]

Hillary Clinton has drawn a lot of support from Wall Street moguls, including the heads of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Her daughter, Chelsea, even works for a hedge fund, the Avenue Capital Group. But at a campaign stop Tuesday […]