Vulture funds close in as Martinsa Fadesa falls
Reuters UK- Spanish property firm Martinsa Fadesa’s demise is a sign hedge funds are pushing hard to make profits out of ailing companies and may cause insolvencies in Spain to speed up. Hedge funds...
View ArticleFormer hedge fund head files against Citigroup
MSN MoneyCentral- A former manager of a Citigroup Inc hedge fund has filed a complaint with a British tribunal accusing the bank of causing his fund’s demise, the Wall Street Journal reported on...
View ArticleInvestors cheer shorting ban
Interactive Investor – Investors are cheering the temporary ban on shorting financial stocks which came into play on Friday morning. The Financial Services Authority introduced the four-month freeze on...
View ArticleWild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds
Boston Globe – Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the wild swings in the markets, raising concern that some may not...
View ArticleHedge Funds In The Microwave
Forbes – In an op-ed in the Financial Times on Monday , I described the unraveling and demise of the shadow banking system that started with non-bank mortgage lenders, structured investment vehicles...
View ArticleHedge Funds Hoard $600 Billion in Cash
Minyanville.com – While they’re not deviously plotting the demise of the worlds’ most powerful financial institutions, hedge funds are loading up on another popular trade: Cash. According to the...
View ArticleWild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds
Boston Globe - Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the wild swings in the markets, raising concern that some may not...
View ArticleUBP cuts hedge funds, sees industry shrinking
Reuters – Union Bancaire Privee has cut its exposure to hedge funds and industry performance has disappointed, while other assets look more attractively-priced, a top executive said. Christophe...
View ArticleChristine Lagarde warned Hank Paulson to bail out Lehman Brothers
Telegraph.com.UK – Sources close to Mrs Lagarde said that she had called the US Treasury Secretary – a close personal friend – well before the ailing bank’s collapse imploring him to act, but he chose...
View ArticleBroken Securities Industry Still Has $20 Billion to Pay Bonuses
Bloomberg – Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven’t stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses. Goldman Sachs Group...
View ArticleMalaysia eyes Islamic hedge funds
Reuters – Malaysia is working on a plan to allow the creation of Islamic hedge funds. "It is now in the developmental stage,” Goh Ching Yin, an executive director at the Securities Commission, was...
View ArticleGet Over The Hedge
Forbes – Hedge funds are to the modern stock market as sun spots were to electronics in the 1960s: a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong without an evident cause. But they probably aren’t to...
View ArticleU.S. hedge funds bleeding, one gone
SF Gate – There probably won’t be many tears for Larkspur’s Copper River Management LLC. The $1 billion hedge fund’s partiality to short selling earned it obloquy, lawsuits and, ultimately, death. No...
View ArticleChrysler Rumored to be in Talks with Italian Automaker over Stake
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. may be interested in acquiring a stake in Chrysler that could help lift the U.S. automaker out of financial distress. According to an article...
View ArticleVulture funds close in as Martinsa Fadesa falls
Reuters UK- Spanish property firm Martinsa Fadesa’s demise is a sign hedge funds are pushing hard to make profits out of ailing companies and may cause insolvencies in Spain to speed up. Hedge funds...
View ArticleFormer hedge fund head files against Citigroup
MSN MoneyCentral- A former manager of a Citigroup Inc hedge fund has filed a complaint with a British tribunal accusing the bank of causing his fund’s demise, the Wall Street Journal reported on...
View ArticleInvestors cheer shorting ban
Interactive Investor – Investors are cheering the temporary ban on shorting financial stocks which came into play on Friday morning. The Financial Services Authority introduced the four-month freeze on...
View ArticleWild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds
Boston Globe – Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the wild swings in the markets, raising concern that some may not...
View ArticleHedge Funds In The Microwave
Forbes – In an op-ed in the Financial Times on Monday , I described the unraveling and demise of the shadow banking system that started with non-bank mortgage lenders, structured investment vehicles...
View ArticleHedge Funds Hoard $600 Billion in Cash
Minyanville.com – While they’re not deviously plotting the demise of the worlds’ most powerful financial institutions, hedge funds are loading up on another popular trade: Cash. According to the...
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