Tag Archives: asset-growth


MENA Equity Fund Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager, Majid Al Futtaim Asset Management, is launching its first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) equity fund, the Luxembourg domiciled ‘Elite MENA Equity Fund’. Investors can invest alongside the family office of […]

Probe Says: IRS, Major Banks Helped Offshore Hedge Funds Avoid Billions in Taxes

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A year-long probe launched by a U.S. Senate Committee has discovered that numerous Wall Street banks have assisted offshore hedge funds in evading millions of dollars in U.S. taxes.  The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has concluded […]

Senate report: Investment banks helped foreigners evade millions in US stock dividend taxes

Los Angeles Times – Big Wall Street investment banks have designed and marketed schemes enabling non-U.S. taxpayers, including offshore hedge funds, to evade millions of dollars in taxes each year on U.S. stock dividends, Senate investigators have found. Some banks […]

Lehman, UBS Among Firms Involved in Tax Dodge, U.S. Probe Says

Bloomberg – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., UBS AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. are among Wall Street firms that concocted derivatives and stock-loan deals to help offshore hedge funds dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, according to […]