Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Persky’s Dalton hedge fund to bet on distressed debt
Reuters – Hedge fund manager Steven Persky plans to start betting on companies’ bad fortunes again. Persky, who runs $1 billion hedge fund firm Dalton Investments, said on Wednesday he will re-launch his distressed debt strategy three years after liquidating […]
MassMutual unit told to return funds from Madoff
Boston Globe – The trustee in the bankruptcy case of swindler Bernard L. Madoff has told a hedge fund business owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to return money that it received from Madoff over the past six years. […]
AIMA Guide to Sound Practices for Funds of Hedge Funds Managers
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Global hedge fund association AIMA (The Alternative Investment Management Association), has published the world’s first global Guide to Sound Practices for Funds of Hedge Funds Managers. The guide was developed by some of the world’s […]
Brazil Hedge Funds Miss Rally by Sticking to Debt
Bloomberg – Brazilian hedge funds that survived the Bovespa stock index’s record tumble last year by loading up on debt are missing out on a 2009 rally. All four classes of Brazilian hedge funds, known as multimercados, had a weighted […]
Dow Jones Halts Hedge Fund Publications
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Due to poor market conditions in the distressed securities space, Dow Jones’s hedge fund arm has suspended publication of the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Distressed Securities Strategy Benchmark. The Dow Jones Hedge Fund Convertible Arbitrage […]
Hedge fund manager lashes back at Obama on Chrysler
Reuters – Prominent hedge fund manager Clifford Asness has struck back at the Obama administration, saying hedge funds had the right and responsibility to hold out on last week’s Chrysler LLC restructuring deal. "Managers have a fiduciary obligation to look […]
Hedge fund regulation to capture listed fund sector
Citywire.co.uk – European regulation intended to introduce some controls on hedge funds will inadvertently capture almost all investment trusts. Draft rules released by the European Commission define ‘alternative’ funds as any non-UCITS investment fund, said the Association of Investment Companies. […]
SEC’s Salvo In The New War Against Insider Trading & Credit Default Swaps
24/7 Wall St. – According to a civil suit filed today by the Securities Exchange Commission in the Southern District Court of New York, John-Paul Rorech, a bond salesman at Deutsche Bank Securities, and Reanto Negrin, a former portfolio manager […]
Aviva Agrees Terms Of Offer To Policyholders
FOXBusiness – U.K. life insurance and pensions provider Aviva said Wednesday that it’s agreed with a policyholder advocate that a reattribution offer can be put to policyholders. The offer gives policyholders in two with-profits funds the right to choose whether […]
Hedge Funds Lose In Chrysler Bankruptcy
The Business Insider – It looks like the "surgical" 30-60 day bankruptcy may be a go. Late last night, after a marathon session in court, Judge Arthur Gonzalez basically approved the plan to merge Chrysler into Fiat, rejecting the claims […]
Fund of hedge funds firm HDF wins back inflows
Guardian Unlimited – HDF, France’s oldest fund of hedge funds company, has started to win back new inflows although some clients are still looking to exit and assets under management remain below the $3 billion level at the end of […]