Monthly Archives: February 2007

PARIS: Gilles Glicenstein, chief executive of BNP Paribas Asset Management, said that hedge funds are forcing him to offer more specialist investments and consider acquisitions in emerging markets and the United States. Glicenstein, who oversees €326 billion, or $428 billion, […]

Canadian hedge funds are experiencing unprecedented growth in several niche areas, reports blackenterprise.com, and foreign based funds are also becoming more active in Canadian markets. While Canada’s hedge fund sector has been overshadowed by its American peers, the Canadian market […]

A Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to sharply limit the number of Americans who can invest in hedge funds has triggered a public backlash — and the latest controversy over the boomingprivate investment pools. The agency has received hundreds of […]

AMSTERDAM/LONDON- British hedge fund TCI believes Dutch bank ABN AMRO is significantly undervalued and should be broken up. ABN should explore all options to merge, sell or spin off some of its assets or potentially the whole business, TCI Fund […]

LAST WEEK’S FIASCO at JetBlue left its customers enraged and its CEO “mortified.” But beyond the outrage of passengers who sat nine hours on the tarmac and went nowhere while their baggage took off for parts unknown, there are lessons […]

LONDON – The Gartmore European investment trust, run by star manager Roger Guy, has told shareholders it faces a threat from activist hedge fund Carrousel Capital, which it says wants to restructure the fund. The 396 million pound trust said […]

WHEN hedge funds buy shares of a company and start agitating for changes in the way it is being managed, they may seem to be gunning for a quick killing at the expense of longer-term shareholders. But, in fact, the […]

Charlie McCreevy, the European Union internal market commissioner, on Monday rode to the defence of hedge funds and private equity groups, dismissing recent attacks on the sectors and insisting therewas no reason to tighten the rules governing their activities. “Hedge […]

LONDON: Warren Irwin is sticking with mining companies, even though his hedge fund, the best performer among its peers in 2006, is down 3.7 percent this year. Gold mine investments brought Rosseau Limited Partnership a 122 percent return last year, […]

Todays Zaman – US hedge funds have increased their political donations by more than two thirds in the past four years and the figure is set to rise considerably in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. At a time […]

Allentown Morning Call –When Goldman Sachs Group Inc. went public in May 1999, some on Wall Street figured it was a signal to bail out of brokerage stocks. If Goldman was letting the public into its business after 130 years […]