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US hedge funds lose in 1st half, mutual funds worse
U.S. hedge funds, which often promise to make money in all markets, were in the red during the first half of the year but did not lose nearly as much as mutual funds, according to data released on Tuesday. Hedge […]
Taylor Wimpey Gets Financing Approach From Hedge Fund, FT Says
Bloomberg- Taylor Wimpey Plc, Britain’s biggest housebuilder, may get a 100 million-pound ($199 million) investment from a hedge fund to bridge a financing gap, the Financial Times reported, citing unidentified people close to the money-raising effort. Shares of Taylor Wimpey […]
Icahn’s Activist Funds’ Slim Returns Supply Cause to Deactivate
Bloomberg- Carl Icahn has hit the roughest patch of his hedge-fund career. His $7.9 billion in hedge funds fell 7 percent between October and April, the biggest peak-to-trough loss since the funds opened in November 2004, according to investors. That […]
A Hedge Fund Manager’s Crusade To Expose Losses
NPR News- The people who run hedge funds can be famously secretive about their work. Not David Einhorn. Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital, which manages about $6 billion in assets. He recently waged a very public battle against Lehman Brothers, claiming […]
Hedge fund veteran’s new firm to tackle funding
Reuters- Meeting long-term funding obligations can be the stuff of nightmares but that’s what hedge fund industry veteran Philip Duff says his new firm can do to help pension funds, endowments and insurers tackle. For years, Duff has warned these […]
Fortis gets $630 mln capital from Russian billionaire
U.S. Daily- Belgian-Dutch financial services group Fortis received $630 million in capital from Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov as part of its recent share issue, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. Fortis, which last week raised […]
Paramount Financial Planners owner gets 40 months for fraud
Columbus Dispatch- The owner of a former Columbus financial company that lost more than $8.3million of investors’ money will pay for his crimes with 40 months in prison, a federal judge ruled today. Judge John D. Holschuh ordered the […]
Investor accuses hedge fund of siphoning off money
Hartford Courant- An investor has sued a Greenwich hedge fund management firm, accusing its operators of siphoning off money and enriching themselves at the expense of investors. Westerly Capital sued Windmill Management LLC, manager of SageCrest hedge fund, and operators […]
A Hedge Fund and Its Nonprofit Twin
New York Times- Christopher Cooper-Hohn and his wife, Jamie, follow a simple economic formula: he makes money, and she gives it away. Mr. Cooper-Hohn runs the Children’s Investment Fund, or T.C.I., a successful — and controversial — hedge fund that […]
Hedge funds lobbying with stealth
Politico.com- Sometimes in Washington, stealth is more important than strength. In recent years, hedge fund managers, who oversee those secretive and lightly regulated pools of billions of dollars of investment capital, have gotten increasingly worried about whether Washington will change […]
New rules to make risky funds more transparent
Toronto Star- In one of Canada’s biggest investment scandals, regulators pulled the plug on Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. in early 2005. The now-bankrupt Toronto company was selling risky hedge funds to ordinary investors, using a complex structure that avoided […]
Taiwan: Hedge funds are welcome
BusinessWeek- Lee Shyan-Yuan, one of several commissioners at Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), believes attracting hedge funds to the market would be a smart move. He is courting hedge funds to invest in Taiwan and raise money from investors in […]
