Tag Archives: third-party
Permal Suspends Withdrawals From Two Hedge Funds Run by NWI
Bloomberg – Permal Group temporarily blocked clients from taking money out of two hedge funds that invest with NWI Management LP while NWI changes its redemption rules, according to two people familiar with the matter. The firm, based in London, […]
Blue Mountain freezes fund in face of withdrawals
Reuters – Blue Mountain Capital Management LLC has temporarily halted redemptions at its largest hedge fund after clients asked to withdraw money despite its "distinguished" performance, according to a letter to its investors. New York and London-based Blue Mountain said […]
VW squeeze may hit hedge funds frozen by Lehman
Reuters – Several hedge funds with assets frozen at Lehman Brothers may have been hit by wrong-way bets on Volkswagen, industry executives said, possibly hurting funds on trades they cannot close. While no money has yet been demanded by the […]
T. Boone Pickens liquidates energy equity hedge fund
Dallas Morning News – Hedge fund operator and oil prognosticator T. Boone Pickens liquidated one of his hedge funds last month as the stock markets plunged. The Dallas billionaire converted his energy equity fund to cash and offered investors the […]
Hedge funds working to limit redemptions
Reuters UK – Dozens of hedge funds have told investors they cannot get their money back right now as managers try to limit a wave of redemptions to safeguard all their clients’ investments — as well as their own futures. […]
Hedge Fund of Funds’ Revealing Q3 Report
Seeking Alpha – This morning I pulled out a third quarter report for a hedge fund of funds and read it. It had some numbers in it that weren’t particularly good, but were way better than I thought they’d be. […]
Epic shutters top hedge fund
Globe and Mail – Epic Capital Management Inc. is closing its flagship hedge fund in what could be the precursor to a number of shutdowns in the troubled industry. The Toronto firm’s assets tumbled from $300-million to $200-million as markets […]
Investors Flee Boone Pickens’ Hedge Fund: Report
CNBC – About half of the investors in T. Boone Pickens’ energy-oriented equity hedge fund have asked to withdraw their money on the heels of losses of about 60 percent this year, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people close […]
Russian hedge funds face closure
Reuters – Up to half of Russian hedge funds could go out of business as the financial crisis sends investors fleeing and the stock market continues to fall, according to industry experts. Speaking at the Russia Alternative Investment Summit on […]
The Risks and Rewards of Investing in a Bear Market
Time – Benjamin Graham was well prepared for the Crash of 1929. The now legendary investor had hedged his bets: he would buy preferred stock in a company and sell short common stock in the same company. When stocks crashed […]
Lehman failure dogs Evergreen Solar
Boston Globe – Evergreen Solar Inc. got a shock when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. went bankrupt last month: The solar panel maker lost control of almost 31 million shares of its stock. How that happened is the subject of a […]
