Monthly Archives: September 2008
Commodities bubble burns big investment funds
Miami Herald – The deflating commodities bubble is claiming its first casualties as large investment funds absorb staggering losses from bad bets that prices for oil, precious metals and grains would keep going up. Hedge fund operator Ospraie Management LLC […]
Hall Capital Partners Appoints Rick Grand-Jean as Director of Business Development
San Francisco – Hall Capital Partners LLC, an independent investment advisor overseeing $22 billion in global multi-asset class strategies for high-net-worth and institutional investors, is pleased to announce the expansion of the firm’s marketing efforts with the appointment of Richard […]
Morgan Stanley’s Frontier Fund Issues Over 7 Million Shares
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Morgan Stanley Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) has issued 7,100,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20 per share resulting in gross proceeds to the Fund of approximately $142,000,000. The […]
KDB made Lehman offer; HSBC may trump Koreans: report
Washington Post – State-controlled Korea Development Bank (KDB) proposed buying 25 percent of Lehman Brothers (LEH.N) for up to $5.3 billion, a newspaper reported, but other Korean banks rumored to be joining a KDB bid consortium denied they were involved. […]
Top Woolworths investor says no to GBP50m takeover offer
Times Online – Woolworths’ biggest shareholder has thrown his weight behind management in rejecting Malcolm Walker’s £50m takeover approach, while refusing to deny that he is planning his own bid for the struggling retailer. Iranian property tycoon Ardeshir Naghshineh, who […]
Hedge Fund Manager Will Bank Thanks to Reverse Takeover
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Shareholders in Falkland Gold & Minerals have approved plans to buy Bahamas-based oil exploration company BPC after a unanimous vote yesterday. Philip Richards, head of the RAB Special Situations Fund that owns a 76 percent stake […]
China fund to start Japan investments by March
Reuters – China Investment Corp, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, will start investing in Japanese equity markets by March, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday. The $200 billion (111 billion pounds) fund is screening Japanese banks at which it holds […]
Lehman in talks with KDB to raise 3.3 billion pounds
Reuters UK – Lehman Brothers has intensified talks with Korea Development Bank to raise as much as $6 billion (3.3 billion pounds) in a share sale that could be concluded this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported. South Korea’s KDB KDB.L […]
Citadel, SAC Capital Get Pick of Casualties as Carnage Worsens
Bloomberg – Balyasny Asset Management LP recruited more than 30 money managers and analysts from competing hedge funds in the first eight months of the year, exceeding its total for all of 2007. “We have been aggressively looking for talent, […]