Monthly Archives: November 2006
Hedge funds Centarus, Paulson meet Ahold
Reuters – Hedge fund shareholders Centaurus Capital and Paulson & Co., which has put pressure on Ahold to sell its U.S. assets, met the Dutch retailer earlier this week, a spokesman for the fundssaid on Wednesday. “I can confirm that […]
Ex-mayor held as theft suspect
Cincinnati Enquirer – A former Loveland mayor who once was a successful investment broker will return to Cincinnati in the next few days to face theft charges, accused of stealing money from clients he persuaded to invest in his hedge […]
Rare Coin Dealer in Hedge Fund fraud sentenced to 18 years
HedgeCo.Net (New York) – The guilty party in the 2005 loss of up to $13 million in a rare-coin fund managed by Maumee coin dealer Thomas W. Noe, has played out with Noe receiving the maximum sentence for his involvement in […]
Hedge Fund buys 4 million shares in Pogo Producing
HedgeCo.Net (New York) – Activist hedge fund Third Point LLC, said in a statement on Tuesday that the company has acquired a 7.2% stake of U.S. oil and gas producer Pogo Producing Co. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, […]
Broadreach Group acquires Corcoran Partners
HedgeCo.net – NEW YORK, November 21, 2006 — Broadreach Group, a global talent agency with offices in New York, London, and a new office in Tokyo, today announced that it has acquired 100% of Corcoran Partners, a New York-based executive search […]
VegaPlus Commodities Hedge Fund Quit Gas, Avoided Amaranth Fate
Bloomberg – Julian Barrowcliffe’s Anglian Commodities Fund exited the natural gas market almost a year before Amaranth Advisors LLC, another hedge fund, was destroyed by plunging energy prices. Barrowcliffe steered his $497 million fund, operated by VegaPlus Capital Partners Ltd., […]
Hedge fund giant coming to Halifax
ChronicleHerald.ca – Nova Scotia’s well-educated workforce and its relatively low costs keep attracting financial services companies to the province. Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that Butterfield Fund Services of Bermuda is opening an office in Halifax comes […]
‘Little guy’ investors boxed out of Nymex IPO
Cincinnati Post – The New York Mercantile Exchange’s IPO is one of the hottest Wall Street has seen in six years, with investors already reaping big returns as the stock’s price doubled. Too badrank-and-file retail investors didn’t see much of […]
Hedge Fund Investment possibilities in India, Pakistan and China
HedgeCo.Net (New York) – Emerging markets are again catching the eye of more foreign firms as an investment destination. Morgan Stanley sees India’s FDI rising to $10 billion, or 1 percent of GDP by 2008, with the flows mostly targeting low […]
Hedge Fund Mergers show Substantial Profits
HedgeCo.Net (New York) – Atticus, a New York-based hedge fund that manages more than $12 billion has been having talks with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Freeport has already undertaken the world’s biggest mining takeover, valued at about $26 billion when the […]
BlackSquare Capital LLP Launches German Certificate for the BlackSquare Capital Access Fund – A Caxton Only Fund of Funds
HedgeCo.net – BlackSquare Capital LLP, the alternative investment firm which launched the BlackSquare Capital Access Fund, a Caxton only fund of funds, is pleased to announce the launch of theBlackSquare Capital Access Index Certificate in Germany on January 1, 2007. […]
Former studio executives get new chance with hedge-fund financing – International Herald Tribune
LOS ANGELES: The faces are familiar, and the names are too: Chris McGurk, former vice chairman of MGM; Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures, and Robert Friedman, a marketing guru at Paramount when Sherry Lansing was in charge. […]