Ex-Intel techie accused of $1 bn theft
Economic Times – A former Intel Corp engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth $1 billion from the chip maker while he worked for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Federal prosecutors in...
View ArticleEven Healthy Hedge Funds Face Redemptions
Seeking Alpha – It’s a tough world out there – I saw in the Wall Street Journal the average hedge fund lost 18% in October. Considering what their mandate is i.e. hedge – that is amazing. September was...
View ArticleLook for Market to Soar When Hedge Funds Stop Selling
Seeking Alpha – A report making the rounds today detailed managers’ Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size...
View ArticleBlackstone trims its Asia-focused fund
Reuters – Blackstone Group LP has cut the size of its planned Asia-focused hedge fund because the global financial crisis has led to redemptions, the Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar...
View ArticleEnglander’s Millennium Funds May Lose $1 Billion to Withdrawals
Bloomberg – Millennium Partners LP, the $13.5 billion hedge-fund firm run by Israel Englander, plans to return $1 billion to investors who asked for their cash back by year-end, according to two people...
View ArticleBeyond the Ivied Halls, Endowments Suffer
New York Times – Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets. Among institutional investors, school endowments...
View ArticleRamius To Wind Down Four Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – New York City-based Ramius Capital will close four of its hedge funds that manage about $550 million in capital, the Wall Street Journal reports citing people familiar with the...
View ArticleRamius Capital to close four funds
Reuters – Ramius Capital, an activist hedge fund, is informing its investors that it will close four funds with a combined $550 million in assets, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar...
View ArticleCitadel Hedge Funds Down, But Not Out
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group lost 13 percent in November, according to a report published by the Wall Street Journal. This brings the hedge fund firm’s total losses...
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 ArticleCitadel to cover operating expenses
Chicago Tribune – Citadel Investment Group is covering "a substantial portion" of its operating expenses this year, a break from passing those costs on to clients, Katie Spring, a spokeswoman for the...
View ArticleAsian hedge funds step in as global players flee
Reuters - The investment banks and global hedge funds that are the usual buyers of debt and equity in struggling Asian companies have largely fled the market, leaving the distressed asset space to...
View ArticleHedge Funds County Once Championed Now Prove Too Risky
Voiceof San Diego – San Diego County’s pension fund is slashing its $1 billion hedge-fund portfolio and acknowledging that the investments it once championed have become too risky and no longer make...
View ArticleAttorney paid cohorts to help execute swindle
New York Daily News – Disgraced Park Ave. lawyer Marc Dreier gave fellow scamsters $100,000 to impersonate others in calls to victims, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The new details...
View ArticleWealthy wary of putting new money in hedge funds
Reuters – Millionaires who long put money with hedge funds are now skittish about adding fresh cash after these loosely regulated portfolios posted record losses last year, a top industry executive...
View ArticleDreier Claims His Son Was Promised Property, Prosecutors Say
Bloomberg - Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer accused of cheating hedge funds, said he told his 19-year-old son he could have properties worth $12.5 million after the teenager agreed to spend the summer...
View ArticleKSK Energy Fund wound up
Reuters India – KSK Emerging India Energy Fund had raised £100 million from AIM last year to invest in Indian energy companies. Global recession has claimed a victim in India. KSK Emerging India Energy...
View ArticleColombia, Venezuela form $200 million fund to boost trade
Jamaica Gleaner – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela pledged Saturday to invest US$100 million each in a special fund in hopes of boosting cross-border trade as the world economic crisis slashes...
View ArticleAmaranth, Perella Were Victims of Dreier’s Fraud, US Says
Bloomberg – The victims of Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer charged in a $400 million fraud, included Amaranth Group Inc., Perella Weinberg Partners and Blackstone Group LP’s GSO Capital Partners, U.S....
View ArticleMan Up! Hedge-Fund Man’s Advice for Wall Street
Bloomberg – Before I quit my job trading bonds for my former Wall Street employer and set up my first hedge fund, I thought long and hard. I stared at the ceiling every night, unable to sleep, and...
View ArticleHedge-Fund Firms Pressed to Consolidate After Losses Erode Fees
Bloomberg – Mohammed Syed has spent the past seven years scouting out the best hedge-fund investments for clients of his Axiom Fund Manager Ltd. Now, he’s seeking to expand the $100 million he oversees...
View ArticleIn Texas, a king of the Asian commodities market
Seattle Times – Just a third of hedge funds with assets of more than $100 million had positive returns in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Abraham Trading Diversified Program, a small...
View ArticleSmall Caps Stand to Gain When Hedge Funds Jump Back In
Seekingalpha.com – To understand which segments of the U.S. equity market were most affected by hedge fund selling pressures late in 2008, a good place to look is 13F filings with the SEC. These are...
View ArticleBig hedge funds’ golden era fading
Reuters – The golden age for super-sized hedge funds may be coming to an end as investors think about putting more money with smaller players, said an industry veteran who is setting up his own fund....
View Article$100 million recovered in hedge-fund fraud case
Seattle Times – An official appointed to recover the assets of a prominent Manhattan lawyer accused of defrauding hedge funds of at least $400 million says he has safeguarded more than $100 million in...
View ArticleOlympic village draining city’s cash reserves
Globe and Mail – The multimillion-dollar bills continue to creep up on the Olympic village project. The city has stashed $25-million into a contingency reserve for the project, while its property...
View ArticleUK’s Lloyd’s plans bond buyback at big discount
Guardian.co.uk – Lloyd’s of London, the specialist insurance market, has offered to buy back up to 100 million pounds ($145 million) worth of bonds at a hefty discount. The offer applies to...
View ArticleCity hits out at EU hedge fund proposal
Times Online – The role of the City of London as one of the world’s preeminent financial centres came under attack for the second time in two weeks yesterday, this time from proposed EU rules for...
View ArticleSilo Forges $100M Venture With Private Equity Players
GlobeSt.com – Locally based direct private lender Silo Financial Corp. has formed an alliance with a New York City-based private equity fund to concentrate on non-performing loans, says Silo founder...
View ArticleWhy private equity regulation may be unnecessary
GrowthBusiness.co.uk – Its proposals would, if enacted, put an additional burden on both funds and the companies in which they invest. They have been greeted with dismay in the City, but what would...
View ArticleSpanish bank to repay $235M it withdrew from Madoff scheme
USA Today – A Spanish banking giant that channeled $3 billion of its clients’ funds to Bernard Madoff has agreed to repay more than $235 million it withdrew from the confessed Ponzi scheme architect in...
View ArticleLarger/Younger Hedge Funds Reported Better Returns for 2008: Study
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) -While previous research has confirmed the widely held belief that emerging funds tend to outperform older and larger funds, hedge fund performance in 2008 saw a partial...
View ArticleCommoditrade Plans to Start Energy Hedge Fund in Fourth Quarter
Bloomberg – Commoditrade Inc. plans to introduce an energy hedge fund in the fourth quarter, complementing a fund that invests in industrial metals. The new fund will use the relative-value strategy...
View Article5:15 Capital Starts Hedge Fund With Nod to Who Song
Bloomberg – Three traders from Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and RBS Greenwich Capital Markets started a government-bond hedge fund named for one of their favorite songs by the Who. 5:15 Capital...
View ArticleBrazil’s Top Hedge Fund Says Real Rally Almost Over
Bloomberg – Most of the gains in Brazil’s currency and interest-rate futures markets this year are over, said Beny Parnes, chief strategist at BBM Gestao de Recursos Ltda., manager of Brazil’s...
View ArticleHSBC fund avoids directional bets in choppy markets
Reuters UK – HSBC Halbis fund manager Jim Dunsford is favouring trades exploiting price discrepancies, rather than big bets on market movements, because he believes markets are still in unknown...
View ArticleDespite Pressure, Hedge Funds Resist Reducing Fees
New York Times – Despite the industry’s record losses in 2008, hedge funds generally aren’t lowering their fees without concessions from investors, such as longer lock-up periods and commitments of at...
View ArticleDealing With Phibro: The Best Choice for Citigroup
New York Times Blogs – Selling a controlling stake in Phibro won’t cut it for Citigroup, Breakingviews writes. Sure, it would probably quell some of the uproar around the flashpoint that put Citi’s...
View ArticleU.S. pay czar says he can “claw back” exec compensation
Reuters – Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and "binding" authority over executive compensation, including the ability to "claw back" money already...
View ArticleBlue Mountain Hedge Fund Latest to Freeze Redemptions
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Following in the footsteps of other large hedge funds trying to weather the credit crunch, Blue Mountain Capital Management has suspended withdraws on its $3.1 billion fund....
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