Tag Archives: hedge funds
Wall Street money rains on Chuck Schumer
Politico – Schumer, No. 3 in the Senate Democratic leadership and the former chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has offered scads of proposals that the industry doesn’t like on issues from corporate governance to derivatives to the creation […]
Hedge Funds Trade Lehman Bankruptcy Claims
BusinessInsider – Hedge funds and investment banks are trading Lehman bankruptcy claims. And it’s not just a matter of a couple of distressed debt funds buying the claims—it really looks like they are being actively traded. Credit Suisse, for instance, […]
Russian Tycoon Invests in Nets as Nation Courts U.S.
Bloomberg – “It’s some well-timed basketball diplomacy that will certainly help the atmospherics,” said Douglas Busvine, director of Russian research for New York-based Medley Global Advisors LLC, which consults for hedge funds and banks. “But it will take more than […]
EU hedge fund directive ‘could be softened’, says Liberal Democrat chair
Guardian – Britain’s efforts to soften a European directive aimed at imposing tough regulation on hedge funds and private equity firms has the support of most of the European Parliament, says Sharon Bowles, Liberal Democrat chair of the parliament’s Committee […]
A lesson from hedge funds
Herald – When you think about future financial stability, ask yourself this contrarian question: Why is it that the nefarious hedge funds, supposedly the bad boys of the financial world, actually came through last year’s crisis in relatively good shape? […]
Hedge Fund Man Research Laboratory Expands At Oxford
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Man Research Laboratory (MRL) and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) opened new, larger premises in Jericho, Oxford, on 24 September, demonstrating that the two groups’ unique collaboration is flourishing as it moves into its […]
US tax chiefs target loans from hedge funds offshore
Reuters – U.S. tax authorities have advised staff in New York to pursue legal cases against hedge funds and companies that avoided taxes through loans that originated in the United States but are approved offshore. The Internal Revenue Service, in […]
Prime Brokerage Services Division Launch For Hedge Funds and Investment Advisers
New York (HedgeCo.net) – TradeStation Securities, Inc., has launched the TradeStation Prime Services division to fill the growing need of start-up to mid-sized hedge funds, the company said today. TradeStation Prime Services will be co-headed by Lance Baraker and William […]
The hills are alive… with the sound of hedge funds
Guardian – Visitors to Pfäffikon, a small Swiss town on the shores of lake Zurich, would never suspect that they were in a hedge fund hot spot. But many have followed in the wake of London-based Man Group, the world’s […]
UK ‘blocking tough finance rules’
BBC News – The UK has “particular difficulties” regulating hedge funds “to put it politely”, Mr Steinbrueck told the weekly German news magazine. “There clearly is a lobby in London that wants to defend its competitive advantage tooth and claw,” […]
Hedge Funds Keep Watch on Washington
BusinessWeek – As legislators and officials in the Obama Administration debate and potentially draw closer to passing new rules regarding health care, carbon emissions, and financial services, hedge fund managers are awakening to the need to reexamine the assumptions they […]
