Yearly Archives: 2008
Asia’s 5 Largest Single-Manager Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Asia-based funds are getting bigger according to Alpa Magazine. Several of the funds on the list are relative newcomers and five members of the Asia 25 ranking were not on the list last year. The 25 […]
Singapore fund management assets up 32 pct
Reuters Singapore- Assets managed by fund managers in Singapore grew 32 percent to S$1.173 trillion (431 billion pounds) last year, driven by a doubling in assets held by hedge funds, the central bank said on Thursday. "This is the seventh […]
Iraqi Babylon Fund Maintains in June
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- So far this summer, with only some slight exaggeration, Iraq could comparatively be portrayed as a stable, safe & secure place, according to the Fact Sheet for June 2008 for the Iraqi Babylon Fund. Relative calmness […]
Hedge fund buys 6.9% stake in Gaylord
Nashville Tennessean- A filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday revealed another institutional investor who placed large bets on shares of Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment as its stock price drifted to new lows almost two weeks ago. New York-based […]
Hedge Fund Backed GlamMedia Hires ExGoogle Director
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Michael Adair, former head of sales finance for Google North America is joining Glam Media Inc, a global web-publishing network, as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance. “I am excited to join Glam Media’s executive […]
Pharos Russia Hedge Fund Holds Up In June
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Russia has held up very well over the month of June according to one of the most experienced Russian hedge fund managers, Pharos Financial Group. For the first half of 2008, the Pharos Russia Fund was […]
Paulson hedge fund now looks to buy banks
Independent- The man who made a personal $3.7bn (£1.85bn) fortune by predicting the credit crisis is hoping to make another killing by helping to prop up financial companies brought to the brink of ruin by the chaos in the debt […]
Tokio Marine to buy Philadelphia Cons
Reuters Tokyo- Tokio Marine Holdings Inc plans to buy non-life insurer Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp for about $4.7 billion (2.4 billion pounds), in the largest acquisition by a Japanese financial firm in the United States. Tokio Marine, Japan’s largest non-life […]
Hedge fund guru calls bottom of market. Well, sort of…
CityWire.co.uk- Punch-drunk investors have – perhaps a little predictably – interpreted the news as Paulson preparing to call the bottom of the market. And it is certainly an interesting development from the man widely considered to be the ‘greatest’ financial speculator since […]
Bahrain’s Investcorp H2 profit slumps on global woes
Reuters Dubai- Bahrain-based investment bank Investcorp’s INVB.BH profit in the six months to June 30 fell to about a third of the year-ago period as asset-based income dropped on global economic woes. The company, which generates most of its income […]
Hedge fund chiefs look to global macro funds in difficult market
International Herald Tribune- Hedge fund managers are looking to global macro funds to try to steer clear of the mess created by the credit crisis while cautiously dipping into a small pool of more risky assets, a Reuters poll found. Stormy […]