Author Archives: Editor
Special Report: What If Elvis Ran a Hedge Fund?
Reuters – On a rainy day in late September, Newark Mayor Cory Booker set up a temporary outpost in a somewhat unlikely setting — the midtown Manhattan offices of hedge fund manager William Ackman. For much of the afternoon, Booker […]
Fed Survey: Hedge Funds and the Shadow Banking System
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The new Fed’s Senior Credit Officer Opinion survey (FSCOO), modeled after the better-known Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS), showed that hedge funds, private-equity firms, insurance companies and other big investors got better terms from lenders during the summer […]
Fund Manager Doesn’t Hedge His Bets on Tories
NYT – As the right-leaning British government prepares to impose some of the deepest spending cuts in a generation, it is doing so with the full-throated support of the London financial elite, Landon Thomas Jr. reports in The New York […]
American hedge fund intervention would put Liverpool sale in Limbo
NewsTime – As the battle for the hearts and minds of Liverpool fans continues in a Dallas Court on Friday, Boston Red Sox owner John Henry has vowed to fight off what he has styled a “last desperate attempt” by […]
Former Broncos quarterback Elway invested in Ponzi scheme
The Denver Post – Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway and a business partner invested $15 million in March with Colorado hedge-fund manager Sean Mueller, who was charged this week in an alleged Ponzi scheme, according to court documents. Mueller, […]
Hedge fund talks derail again as France and Britain clash
Telegraph – The row revolves around whether or not to grant a “passport” licence to foreign funds that want to work across the European Union’s 27 member nations. France wants more stringent rules for foreign hedge fund managers, while the […]
Hedge Fund Fall Networking Event
New York (HedgeCo.net) – This year’s HedgeCo Fall Networking Event is being held in New York at the Nikki Midtown 151 E 50th St, between 3rd Avenue and Lexington. The event is a chance for investors, hedge fund managers and […]
Brevan Howard to launch new credit fund
Reuters – Hedge fund firm Brevan Howard is set to float a new credit fund in the London market in mid-December, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The British-based firm, which is moving a handful of staff to a subsidiary […]
Hedge funds to face more delay with French demand
French Tribune – Discussions to rupture a gridlock stuck between Britain and France above the design of latest EU hedge-fund domination finished in confusion on Wednesday, placing their finance ministers on track for a conflict when they convene next week. […]
Fortune ‘banks’ on Ackman
New York Post – Fortune Brands is searching for an investment bank to possibly help defend the company against shareholder activist William Ackman, The Post has learned. Last week Ackman disclosed that his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, had […]
Funds of hedge funds to hold portfolios steady
Reuters – Funds of hedge fund managers are not about to make any big changes to their portfolios in the coming six months as investors fret the world economy’s recovery from the Great Recession is stuttering, a Reuters poll showed. […]
Hedge fund managers seek comfort in numbers
Irish Times – “GROUP THERAPY for hedge funds” was how one investment manager with some of the €250 million of subordinated debt at Irish Nationwide described a conference call being held today by a London law firm for disgruntled bondholders. […]