Monthly Archives: August 2009
Hedge Fund Demand: Brighton House Associates Q2 2009 Report
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – During the first quarter, most alternative investors spent their time rebalancing their portfolios, redeeming with current managers, and waiting for the market to correct itself. This process freed up capital and uncovered gaps in portfolios, […]
Bandon Provides Smaller Investors Access To Flagship Hedge Fund Strategy
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge fund manager Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has made it’s flagship investment strategy, DIRS – Directional Interest Rate Strategy – available to investment advisors through Adhesion’s WealthADV UMA platform. The flagship strategy, celebrating it’s 5th […]
What Hedge Funds Are Up to
Seeking Alpha – This is the latest edition in a new series of posts we’re doing here entitled, ‘hedge fund news summaries.’ And, as as the title obviously states, the goal is to give you the quick hits of everything […]
Hedge funds in ’09: Turning crisis into an opportunity
Gulf Times – It can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when there is no immediately apparent difference between them. These days, the world of hedge funds more closely resembles a vast field of chaff, with just […]
Hedge Fund Fees Firm With Rebound as LBO Fees Bow to Pensions
Bloomberg – Larry Powell, deputy investment chief for the $16 billion Utah Retirement Systems, was convinced in January that hedge funds finally would buckle under the pressure of record losses in 2008 and lower their fees. He figured it was […]
Shy Tycoon Makes Very Big Splash
NationalJournal.com – Among the elite and deep-pocketed GOP fundraisers and donors at the convention, few can rival Paul Singer, a New York hedge-fund tycoon who has raked in more than $500,000 for the John McCain campaign. Earlier, he raised a […]
Hedge-fund chief gains seat on Sara Lee board
Chicago Tribune – The leader of an activist hedge fund with a significant stake in Sara Lee Corp. has been added to the foodmaker’s board of directors. Downers Grove-based Sara Lee said Thursday that it is expanding its 10-member board […]
Fund manager DEGI buys $247 mln Polish business park
Reuters UK – DEGI, a fund management unit of Aberdeen Property Investors, has bought one of Warsaw’s biggest business parks for 167 million euros (135 million pounds) in a bid to boost its exposure to Poland’s fast-growing economy. The 43,700 […]
LaSalle raises $3 billion Asia property fund
Reuters – LaSalle Investment Management has raised a $3 billion (1.64 billion pounds) "opportunity" fund for Asian property, saying it is interested in investing in Japan, China and South Korea. The fund management unit of property services firm Jones Lang […]
Former Goldman Big Departs From Hedgie Halcylon
New York Post – Former Goldman Sachs exec Steve Mandis has left the $12 billion hedge fund Halcyon Asset Management – one of the oldest hedge funds on Wall Street, according to an investor letter. Mandis was vice chairman and […]
Apollo’s Hexion rejects Huntsman shareholder plan
Guardian.co.uk – Four large hedge funds, all shareholders of Huntsman Corp, have proposed a plan to salvage a $6.5 billion buyout of the chemical company by a unit of Apollo Global Management. But Apollo’s Hexion Specialty Chemicals unit late Thursday […]