Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Top UK fund may invest up to 20 pct in alternatives
Reuters – The UK’s largest pension scheme, the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) could invest up to 20 percent of its assets in alternative asset classes including hedge funds, a senior executive in charge of its investments said. Frank Naylor, head […]
Top hedge fund boss picks return of bull market
New Zealand Herald – The modest recovery staged by world stock markets in recent weeks may mark the beginning of a new bull market for equities, one of the UK’s best-known hedge fund managers said yesterday. Crispin Odey, the founder […]
Comment: Is Cayman under threat as a fund domicile?
Hedge Week.com – For most of the past decade, the Cayman Islands have been the world’s dominant offshore alternative fund domicile. At the last count, the jurisdiction had around 10,000 funds, the vast majority of which are hedge funds of […]
John Ho to step down as Asia chief at The Children’s Investment Fund
Times Online – John Ho, the head of The Children’s Investment Fund’s (TCI) operations in Asia, is poised to resign over what sources describe as a “clash of minds” with Chris Hohn, its notoriously abrasive founder. The same sources said […]
Star commodities traders ditch banks for hedge funds
Reuters – Star commodity traders, once synonymous with high-profile banks, are leaving for little-known investment firms that let them work and earn in ways iconic Wall Street firms no longer can. The financial crisis and its amplifying threat on risk […]
NY AG and SEC probe pension fund investments
MSN MoneyCentral – A corruption scandal at the state’s retirement fund is the latest in a long string involving politically connected intermediaries called placement agents sometimes hired by investment firms hoping to land rich investment deals with pension officials, experts […]
Gold, Little Changed in London, May Fall on Lower Hedge Demand
Bloomberg – Gold, little changed in London, may drop on lower demand for an inflation hedge after U.S. consumer prices posted their first annual decline since 1955. The consumer price index fell 0.4 percent in March from a year earlier, […]
Islamic short-selling can develop market: bourse
Reuters – Islamic short-selling would help develop sharia capital markets, Malaysia’s stock exchange chief said on Thursday, defending plans for a controversial platform it hopes will improve market liquidity. Some sharia scholars frown on short-selling, saying it amounts to selling […]
A Fund Manager Wins, and Moves On
New York Times – William A. Ackman makes a lot of noise for someone in the hush-hush business of hedge funds. He harangues executives, goads boards, talks this stock up and that one down — all in search of profit. […]
General Growth files for bankruptcy protection
Reuters – General Growth Properties Inc GGP.N, the second largest U.S. mall owner, on Thursday filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, making it one of the biggest real estate bankruptcies in U.S. history. Ending months of speculation, the Chicago-based mall […]
Legg Mason Launches Tactical Allocation Fund
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Investment management company Legg Mason Inc. has launched a global multi-asset tactical allocation mutual fund named Legg Mason Permal Tactical Allocation Fund. The fund, which targets institutional and retail taxable and tax-exempt investors, will be […]
Lehman yields bonanza for the professionals
Times Online – Accountants and lawyers who are trying to sort out the European collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, have charged more than £100million in fees in six months. The bonanza shows no sign of abating. PricewaterhouseCoopers […]