Tag Archives: target


Hedge Fund Manager Looking to Shake Up Target Board

February 27, 2009 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund manager William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management is in talks with discount retailer Target to nominate some potential members to their board of directors, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. […]

The Hedge Fund Money-Go-Round

February 15, 2009 : Permalink

Seekingalpha.com – Bill Ackman explains how hedge funds work, specifically with regard to investors in Pershing Square IV, his fund dedicated (disastrously) to going long Target. Some of these investors, who are for the most part other hedge funds (that […]

Pelorus Advisors Offer Risk Service Exclusively To Hedge Funds

February 9, 2009 : Permalink

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – As investors look to independent and unbiased hedge fund risk due diligence, Pelorus Advisors has decided to launch an operational risk management service for hedge fund investors. Unlike other due diligence firms, Pelorus only offers […]

Famed for piety, Jacob Merkin put faith and funds in Bernie Madoff

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

New York Daily News – Jacob Ezra Merkin was once revered as a wizard of Wall Street, an angel of charity and a lion of Judaic studies. Now he has earned infamy as a destroyer of wealth, a menace to philanthropy, a […]

Speculators and Our Food: E-I-E-I-O!

January 8, 2009 : Permalink

The Austin Chronicle – Oh, this is just dandy! Hedge-fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators – the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse – have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. E-I-E-I-O! Speculators have […]

Shareholder Sues CSX, Claims Hedge Funds Were to Blame

October 30, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – CSX is finding themselves in the middle of another battle, this time with a shareholder who is suing the railroad company along with hedge funds TCI and 3G Capital Partners. Shareholder Deborah Donoghue is seeking the […]

CSX Third Quarter Profits Down, Ward Optimistic

October 15, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Jacksonville-based CSX Corp’s profit fell 6.1 percent in the third quarter according to their regulatory filing yesterday, thanks to reduced freight in a sour U.S. economy.  This is the first time in the last five quarters […]

Edge Launches New Alternative Investment Site

October 14, 2008 : Permalink

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund advisor Edge Capital Partners, LLC has launched a new website (www.edgecappartners.com) highlighting the firm’s offerings in the areas of asset allocation strategies, benchmarked investment options, corporate mergers and acquisitions and finance strategies, wealth […]

Lehman to sell stake in R3 hedge fund

October 9, 2008 : Permalink

Reuters – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc agreed on Wednesday to sell its 45 percent stake in hedge fund R3 Capital Partners for $250 million in cash and a $250 million investment in another fund managed by R3. Lehman, which filed […]

Hedge Fund Manager Launches Lettable Space Park In Romania

September 29, 2008 : Permalink

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Argo Group, an emerging markets investment manager, announced the launch of The Era Shopping Park Iasi. Projected to generate EUR 18 million ($25.7 million) in annual rental income the launch is funded by Argo’s private […]

CSX loses fight to block hedge funds

September 16, 2008 : Permalink

Florida Times Union – CSX Corp.’s proxy fight with two hedge funds apparently ended Monday, after an appellate court turned down CSX’s attempt to block some of the funds’ votes for the company’s board of directors. CSX, which had already […]

Ruling: Hedge Funds Receive Their Rightful Seats on Board

September 16, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund TCI has won two more seats on the board of railroad operator CSX, in what looks to be the finale of a year-long proxy battle.  A U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled yesterday in […]