Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Morgan Stanley may scale back prime-brokerage ops-NY Post
Trading Markets – Morgan Stanley is looking at scaling back its prime-brokerage operation, selling assets or buying a faltering regional bank, the New York Post said citing sources. The firm may also try to work out a way to piggyback […]
How the Bailout Is Like a Hedge Fund
Slate – The Wall Street bailout is alive again. In an effort to make the $700 billion bailout palatable, the architects of the law have larded it up with all sorts of goodies, such as increasing the levels of deposit […]
Hedge funds plead with US SEC to let short ban expire
Forbes – Lobbyists for the $2 trillion hedge fund industry made a last ditch effort Wednesday to convince U.S. securities regulators to let an emergency order prohibiting short selling in more than 950 financial firms expire Thursday. "The orders have […]
Wolver Hill Japan Hedge Fund Resists Slumping Topix
Bloomberg – Wolver Hill Japan Multi-Strategy Fund, run by Deutsche Bank AG’s former prime brokerage sales chief in Tokyo, resisted the worst month for the nation’s stocks in almost 15 years to be little changed in September. The $11 million […]
Funds Try to Lose Ties to Lehman
New York Times – For some hedge funds, Lehman Brothers has become the Roach Motel of Wall Street: They checked in, but they can’t check out. Two weeks after Lehman spiraled into bankruptcy, hedge funds that did business with the […]
Mooring Hedge Fund Gains Amid Losses
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Mooring Financial Corp., a private investment firm specializing in the management of alternative assets, has seen its hedge fund, the Mooring Intrepid Opportunity Fund gain 37% year-to-date, while global hedge fund returns have declined almost […]
GE to raise $15 billion, Buffett gets preferred stake
Reuters – General Electric Co plans to raise $15 billion through stock sales — including $3 billion from Warren Buffett — to improve liquidity and give it the option of more acquisitions at a time of intense market turmoil, the […]
Citadel Hires Three From Lehman’s Europe Mortgage Bond Trading
Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland – Citadel Investment Group LLC, the $19 billion hedge-fund firm run by Kenneth Griffin, hired three senior executives from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to boost its fixed-income team. Timothy Bryan Wilkinson, former head of fixed income […]
Trimming fees: Hedge funds make changes
Norwalk Advocate – Some hedge funds are reducing their management and incentive fees to keep investors for longer periods during turbulent times on Wall Street. Typically, hedge fund managers require investors to lock their money into a hedge fund for […]
Buffett Wannabe Tied to $2 Billion Ponzi Scheme
New York Post – Billionaire Tom Petters fancied himself the next Warren Buffett – that is until his empire starting crashing down like a house of cards. The feds accuse Petters, one of Minneapolis’ fastest rising business stars, of secretly […]
Big hedge funds suffer big losses in September
Reuters – Hedge funds made history in September but not the kind most managers want to remember. Among the biggest losers, as last month’s returns are slowly revealed to investors, are some of the $1.9 trillion hedge fund industry’s most […]