Monthly Archives: May 2007

Reuters- Hedge funds and other investment firms have been busily filing quarterly public reports to regulators in recent weeks, offering rivals a window into top manager holdings that sometimes movesshares. But don’t look for any information from Bulldog Investors or […]

DMNews.com- InfoUSA Inc. has issued a statement rebutting a series of attacks by hedge fund Dolphin Limited Partnership and Don Netter. Dolphin Limited Partnership and Dolphin Financial Partners, which together own two million shares, or 3.6 percent, of infoUSA, recently […]

Economic Times- The competing takeover bids of Suzlon Energy and Areva of France for Germany’s REpower Systems are set to face difficulties with the hedge funds that own shares in the German company unlikely to sell to the two companies […]

  Bloomberg- Tudor Investment and Highfields Capital Management bought Motorola shares in recent months, betting that the maker of mobile phones would return to profit and recoup lost market share. The purchase by the hedge funds of 46 million shares […]

Associated Press- Northwest Airlines overcame a major obstacle on its path to exiting bankruptcy Wednesday when a judge approved a settlement with a shareholder group that had opposed the carrier’s reorganization. Judge Allan Gropper approved the $5 million settlement at […]

Bloomberg- Dow Kim, the second-highest-paid executive at Merrill Lynch & Co., is resigning to form a hedge fund, the latest top manager to leave an investment bank for the higher pay of running an independent trading firm. Kim, 44, is […]

MarketWatch- Hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert has taken a stake valued at about $800 million in Citigroup Inc., a move that is driving up the stock and increasing speculation he may lead the charge for a break up. Lampert’s ESL […]

Bloomberg- Investments in commodity hedge funds may rise to about $35 billion by year-end as more traders set up funds to take advantage of swings in prices for energy, metals and agriculture, according to Cole Asset Management. About $30 billion […]

Reuters- Hedge funds should establish a self-regulatory organization and avoid taking money directly from average investors to avert government scrutiny and a possible public backlash, a former headof the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday. In remarks to […]