Tag Archives: metals


Ex-Lehman Banker Filippi Raises $35 Million for Commodity Fund

Bloomberg – Edward Filippi, previously with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., raised $35 million for a hedge fund investing in energy, metals and agricultural derivatives. The Ground Zero Strategic Commodities Fund may begin trading in the first quarter of next year, […]

ANALYSIS – Wall Street girds to pay more for commods talent

Reuters India – Wall Street, where hundreds of commodity traders lost jobs last year as the recession set in, is on a new hiring phase where banks and hedge funds want to pay top dollar but only to a few, […]

BlueGold, Galena Beat Competing Funds, Commodities

Bloomberg – BlueGold Capital Management LLP and Galena Asset Management Ltd. extended their winning streak in the first four months, outpacing competing hedge funds and commodities. Pierre Andurand’s $1.1 billion BlueGold energy fund rose 35 percent through April, two people […]

Market slump pounds Pa. pension funds

Philadelphia Inquirer – Pension funds for Pennsylvania state workers and schoolteachers lost more than $12 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30. And that’s not counting losses from hedge funds, real estate, private equity, and other hard-to-trace private investments […]