Yearly Archives: 2008
Wall Street Cuts Off Paramount: No Takers For $450 Million Movie
The Business Sheet- After spending nine months trying to close a $450-million film financing deal to offset the cost of 30 upcoming movies, Paramount has been forced to give up the chase. The studio was working with Deutsche Bank to […]
Delphi hires bank to sell brake unit
Detroit Free Press- Delphi Corp. has hired a Detroit investment bank to find a buyer for its brake business, which has been for sale for more than two years. The Troy supplier said Monday that it hired W.Y. Campbell & […]
Top funds may have lost $4 bln on Freddie and Fannie
Reuters- Some of the best known U.S. fund firms probably suffered significant losses in last week’s meltdown in the stocks of mortgage finance agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Among the casualties may be the one-time star stock-picker Bill Miller […]
SEC Rumor Watch Draws Skepticism
New York Post- Wall Streeters who suspect that hedge funds are behind false rumors about Lehman Brothers and other banks say they’re skeptical that regulators will be able to find and punish those responsible. "I would love to have someone […]
Ko, former Bear trader, launches hedge fund
Reuters- Melissa Ko, a former star trader at Bear Stearns, has formed a new hedge fund called Covepoint Capital with nearly $1 billion in assets, according to a letter the firm sent to investors on Monday. Ko ran Bear’s Emerging […]
SEC subpoenas over 50 hedge-fund advisers: report
Reuters- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent subpoenas to more than 50 hedge-fund advisers as it investigates whether individuals spread false rumors to manipulate shares in two Wall Street firms, The Wall Street Journal said, citing a […]
Government Rescue Plan Boost Fannie and Freddie Shares
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may get some help from the Fed in hopes of staving off a market implosion following a crippling credit crunch and a period of great stress in the financial […]
DanFonds Launches Frontier Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- A Copenhagen based Cayman fund, DanFonds, is trying a novel approach to the market for hedge funds by launching the ‘Frontier Markets Fund’, a hybrid between the public market hedge fund approach and the private equity […]
Playboys Hutch On the Park To Re-open With Hedge Funds Help
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Hugh Hefner has reportedly signed an agreement with Agilo, the London hedge fund that owns a Sports Cafe on Haymarket in London’s West End according to the TimesOnline. The new Playboy Club in the capital is […]
E&Y wins Caymans hedge fund row
The US Supreme Court has thrown out negligent audit claims made against Ernst & Young in the wake of a hedge fund collapsing. Liquidators sued the firm’s Cayman Islands unit, accusing E&Y of performing a below-par audit of the Beacon […]