Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

About the HedgeCo News Team

The Hedge Fund News Team stays on top of breaking news in the Hedge Fund industry on an hourly basis. Signup to HedgeCo.Net to recieve Daily or Weekly news updates from our team.

Investors joining hedge fund club get burned

Reuters – Two years ago, investors scrambled to snap up shares in elite hedge fund firms, eager for a piece of the lucrative action. What they got instead were big losses. Starting in early 2007, when hedge fund and private equity […]

Bank Safdie Dodges Madoff Loss, Predicts More Hedge Fund Rules

Bloomberg – Banque Safdie SA, the Geneva-based wealth manager that withdrew money invested with Bernard Madoff three years before his alleged Ponzi scheme unraveled, said the scandal will mean more hedge fund regulation. “What Madoff has done is highlight the […]

Millennium Outsources all Fund Managment to GlobeOp

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Millennium Management LLC, a global multi-strategy investment management firm with over $11 billion in assets under management, has outsourced fund administration to hedge fund manager GlobeOp Financial Services. GlobeOp became administrator of record for all […]

Anglo American PLC

SilkInvest – Anglo American PLC, which represents about 10% of the South African index, has been one of the worst performers among the world’s major diversified mining companies. It has now addressed issues with its under-performing management team. Chief executive […]

Hedging loopholes

Blueridgenow.com – Hedge funds have been in the news recently, usually with a watered down description of the characteristics of these investment vehicles. Most folks know that Chelsea Clinton works for a hedge fund (Avenue Capitol), and that John Edwards […]

Chairman of Hedge Funds Care to Ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – President and Chairman of Hedge Funds Care (HFC), John Budzyna, will preside over the Closing Bell to mark the 11th Annual New York Open Your Heart to the Children Benefit to be held at Cipriani […]

Paulson’s Pellegrini Said to Resign to Start Own Hedge Fund

Bloomberg – Paolo Pellegrini, the hedge-fund manager who helped Paulson & Co. make more than $3 billion in 2007 on bets the U.S. housing bubble would burst, resigned to start his own fund, a person familiar with the matter said. […]

Charities hurt in Madoff case get charity

MSNBC – Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout — but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help. Human Rights Watch, The Center for Constitutional Rights and […]

Rival Launches RRSP Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) – Cayman Island based hedge fund manager Rival Capital Management Inc., announced the launch of the Rival North American RRSP Growth Fund, an RRSP eligible fund that will invest in the current Rival North American Growth […]

Adolf Merckle, German tycoon who lost millions on VW shares, commits suicide

Times Online – One of Europe’s most influential industry magnates has thrown himself in front of a train after his business empire began to crumble. Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old head of a conglomerate that employs thousands in Britain and elsewhere […]

NYU Granted Extension Amidst Madoff Losses

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – New York University scored a victory yesterday, when they won a court order that sought an extension on a temporary ban that would halt J. Ezra Merkin from making any more transfers with the school’s funds.  […]

Dubai leads in Islamic finance with new Shariah hedge fund index

Mena Report – The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority (DMCCA) and Shariah Capital, Inc. (SCAP.L) today announced the Dubai Shariah Hedge Fund Index, the first internationally-recognised index comprised exclusively of Shariah compliant hedge funds.  The Dubai Shariah Hedge Fund Index […]