Tag Archives: hedge fund
Hedge-fund firm to create 50 jobs in Sligo
Belfast Telegraph – A company that provides administration services to the hedge-fund industry has announced plans to create 50 new jobs in Sligo. Equinoxe AIS is expanding its Irish operations and setting up a new asset-servicing operation which will be […]
Toscafund halves Stake in key investment Aberdeen Asset Management
Hedge Tracker – Toscafund, the activist hedge fund run by Martin Hughes, has sold half of its stake in Aberdeen Asset Management to Japanese bank Mitsubishi. According to an article from the Telegraph, Toscafund’s assets have fallen in half since […]
Paolo Pellegrini, Formerly of John Paulson’s Hedge Fund on Bloomberg
ForexHound – I admit I had not heard of this fellow until I saw this interview on Zerohedge, but apparently this is the key brain behind the massive bet against subprime mortgages that made John Paulson both famous and one […]
Former board chair, whose hedge fund lost $1.5 billion, returns to board, will oversee endowment
The Mac Weekly – Larson resigned from the board in August 2007 after the sale of his hedge fund, which had been one of the most successful in the country. Sowood Capital Management was an early, high-profile casualty of the […]
London hedge funds talk the walk over Swiss move
Reuters – A hedge fund exodus from London to Switzerland in the face of higher taxes and tougher EU rules is unlikely to occur this side of a British general election, although the industry pretender remains ready to pounce. Eyeing […]
New Zealand Hedge Fund Partners Offshore Investors With Local Clean Tech Experts
New York (HedgeCo.net) – A new hedge fund is being launched to bridge the distance barrier between New Zealand and the rest of the world. Milestone Capital has established the Rutherford Innovation Fund to raise capital and back innovative companies […]
RCM plans new hedge funds to boost sector assets
Guardian – RCM, Allianz’s equity fund management unit, is launching two new hedge fund products aimed at increasing its assets under management in the sector by more than 50 percent, its Chief Investment Officer said. Andreas Utermann told Reuters that […]
Citadel earned about $1 bln from high frequency trades
WSJ – Citadel Investment Group LLC earned about $1 billion last year from a unit involved in high frequency trading, the Wall Street Journal said, citing the testimony of a former employee of the hedge fund firm. According to the […]
Shumway: Another Hedge Fund Falls for BofA
Chris Shumway runs a $5 billion hedge fund and is best known for intensive fundamental research to create long/short equity portfolios. He is a ‘Tiger Cub’ because he formerly served as Julian Robertson’s right-hand man while at Tiger Management. Taken […]
Adaptec says Steel Partners would gut company
Reuters – Adaptec Inc, target of a proxy war led by Warren Lichtenstein’s Steel Partners, said on Tuesday the activist hedge fund wants to gut the data storage technology company, shed assets and create an acquisition vehicle fueled by Adaptec’s […]
GLG launches distressed fund targeting European company debt
CityWire – Hedge fund giant GLG Partners has launched a fund to exploit the debt problems across European corporations, according to report in the Financial Times. GLG, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, is said to have started trading […]