Monthly Archives: June 2009
MFA Commits to Reduce Systemic Risk in OTC’s
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Global alternative investment industry voice, The Managed Funds Association (MFA) announced that it is joining the major derivatives dealers (the Major Dealers) in presenting a letter to global industry regulators. The letter establishes new commitments […]
Pallotta to shut down Raptor fund, reopen it later
Reuters – Hedge fund manager James Pallotta, who long delivered some of the industry’s best returns, told clients on Tuesday that he will shut down his $800 million Raptor Global fund in July. Pallotta, 51, told investors that he had […]
Hedge Fund Expert to Run ATC’s Cayman Operations
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Ali Mudeen has joined hedge fund provider ATC Group as managing director of its Cayman Islands operations. Mudeen will oversee and build the firm’s Private Clients and Corporate Services practices in the region, as well […]
Wall Street 2: Hedge Fund Is Villain, Shia LaBeouf To Join Michael Douglas
Huffingtonpost.com – I’m told that screenwriter Allan Loeb (21, Things We Lost In The Fire) will hand in his second draft of the long-awaited Wall Street 2 to 20th Century Fox later this week. (Although the great Stanley Weiser and his […]
No hedge fund now poses systemic risk-LTCM partner
Guardian.co.uk – No single hedge fund today poses a systemic risk to the global financial system, said a former partner at Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), as lawmakers continue to hammer out rules to control the industry. Even though many […]
Absolute Returns Focus: CF KB Endeavour Absolute Return A
Citywire.co.uk – To analyse all of Europe’s absolute return funds on a variety ofg risk-return measures and see a comprehensive league table of performance visit our new zone here The CF KB Endeavour Absolute Return fund slipped into negative territory last […]
Tontine Partners raising new total return fund
Reuters – Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Gendell is mounting a comeback after a turbulent 2008. Gendell’s Tontine Associates LLC, disclosed plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing to raise funds for a new total return hedge fund. So far, […]
Fairfield Sentry sues hedge fund over Madoff fees
Greenwich Time – Fairfield Sentry Ltd., seeking to recover more than $919 million in fees related to investments involving Bernard Madoff, sued the Fairfield Greenwich Group hedge fund that lost $7 billion in Madoff’s fraud. Fairfield Sentry, based in the […]
Bank ‘oligopoly’ slows CDS clearing-BlueMountain
Reuters – Large dealers in the $26 trillion credit default swap market are blocking CME Group’s CME.N efforts to clear trades, in a bid to retain their "oligopoly" over the market, hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management said on Monday. Central […]
Helios Plans India ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Stock Fund
Bloomberg – Helios Capital Management Pte, the hedge-fund manager once backed by Tudor Investment Corp., plans to start a “Slumdog Millionaire” fund that will buy underperforming shares of Indian companies. “We want to find slumdogs from the Indian equity markets […]