Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Unions say they lost $1B
Albany Times Union – A group of upstate unions claims it lost nearly $1 billion in pension and other benefit funds after an investment manager placed the money with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Now, the unions have filed a […]
Cayman Island Hedge Funds Webinar
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Cayman Island law firm Solomon Harris is today hosting its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of ‘Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds’. "This fits in perfectly with our firm’s […]
Abbott Capital Management closes $1bn private equity fund of funds
AltAssets – Abbott Capital Management, a US-based independent investment manager, announced today that it has met its target for the Abbott Capital Private Equity Fund VI, having raised over $1bn. Like Abbott’s previous funds, the investment strategy for ACE VI […]
In State Pension Inquiry, a Scandal Snowballs
New York Times Blogs – The inquiry into corruption at the New York State pension fund started simply enough. Alan G. Hevesi, the former comptroller, was accused of using state workers as chauffeurs for his ailing wife. But by the […]
Bank of NY Says Global Hedge Fund Assets Will Reach $2.6 Trillion by 2013
West Palm Beach – (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund assets will bottom out at roughly $1 trillion in 2009, after which capital appreciation and $800 billion in net inflows over the next four years will push global levels to $2.6 trillion […]
China Zhongwang plans 2009’s largest IPO at $1.6 bln
Reuters – China Zhongwang Holdings, Asia’s biggest maker of aluminium extrusion products, began marketing on Monday for a Hong Kong IPO to raise as much as $1.58 billion in what would be the world’s largest new listing so far this […]
CalPERS tightening its control over hedge funds
Pensions & Investments – CalPERS is boldly going where no pension fund has gone before with hedge funds. The $175 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Sacramento, will be the first pension fund to move its $4.6 billion portfolio of […]
Glaxo to buy Stiefel Labs for up to $3.6 billion
Reuters UK – GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-largest drugmaker, has agreed to buy privately owned U.S. skincare specialist Stiefel Laboratories Inc for up to $3.6 billion, the two companies said on Monday. The acquisition is the latest in a string […]
Putting Finance Capitalism “Back in Its Box”
OpEdNews – So writes Philip Augar in an April 13 Financial Times (FT) op-ed. He’s a former UK investment banker/broker and author of The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism, The Greed Merchants, and most recently Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and […]
Rich G7 can’t go it alone to calm economic storm
Reuters – Finance ministers from rich nations, when they meet on Friday, will face less economic turbulence than at their last gathering two months ago, but they recognize they need developing nations to step up spending to revive the world […]