Category Archives: Syndicated
Hedge Fund Tycoon Crispin Odey is Caught Short Over Berkeley Group
(This is Money) Roly Poly hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey will be pacing nervously around his Mayfair offices. Luxury home builder Berkeley Group, which he has heavily ‘shorted’, rallied 2.6 per cent this week. Last month, his European fund suffered […]
Putin Points The Finger At Goldman
(CNBC) Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled media reports surrounding the Panama Papers as “provocation” on Thursday and effectively pointed the finger at U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. To read this article:
Tudor Investors Ask to Pull More Than $1 Billion From Firm
(Bloomberg) Tudor Investment Corp. clients have asked to pull more than $1 billion from the hedge fund firm founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones after three years of lackluster returns. The investor redemption requests were made in recent weeks, according […]
Iceland’s New PM Tells Hedge Funds What to Expect After Crisis
(Bloomberg) Iceland’s new prime minister, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, said his government plans to go ahead with auctions intended to unwind offshore krona holdings whether hedge funds agree to participate or not. Roughly a week after his predecessor was ousted following […]
Man Group Weathers Q1 Market Storm with Slight Dip in Assets
(Reuters) British hedge fund manager Man Group on Friday posted a slight drop in assets under management in the three months to the end of March, hit by the performance of GLG, its actively managed equity business.Asset managers have faced […]
Hedge Funds Post Biggest Gains in Four Years
(HITC Business) After years of lackluster returns,…the nearly $3 trillion industry posted its best performance in more than four years in March, by one account, though it still lagged the S&P 500 stock market benchmark. Preqin, which tracks the alternative […]
Former N.Y. Analyst Charged with Insider Trading on ADT Deal
(Reuters) A former analyst at a New York investment fund was arrested on Wednesday on charges that he made approximately $1.5 million trading on inside information about Apollo Global Management’s nearly $7 billion deal for security company ADT Corp. John […]
Has the Fed Bankrupted the Nation?
(Harvest) Volcker, Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen. Which one does not belong? Logic dictates that Volcker should have been odd man out. After all, there is no legendary “Volcker Put.” The towering monetarist made no bones about never being bound by […]
Small-Cap Specialist Acuitas Launches Long-Short Strategy
(Daily Alts) Small-Cap Specialist Acuitas Launches Long-Short StrategyWith stock markets hovering around long-term highs, and bonds near long-term lows, many investors are anticipating lower returns from traditional investments in the years to come. As a result, investors are increasingly looking […]
The Increased Difficulty Level of Successful Shorting
(Harvest) While the 21st century has had severe market declines in 2001, 2002, and 2008, profitable short selling year in and year out has become more difficult. One major negative is the enormous growth in the hedge fund industry itself. […]
One Of The Most Senior Women In The Hedge Fund World Just Got $130 Million For A New Fund.
(The Business Insider) Former Paulson & Co. partner Samantha Greenberg has received a $130 million commitment in seed money from the alternative investment manager Ramius LLC for her new hedge fund, Margate Capital. Greenberg started Margate Capital after leaving Paulson […]
Ex-BlueCrest Partners Favre, Germak Plan to Start Own Hedge Fund
(Bloomberg) Three former partners of BlueCrest Capital Management are starting a hedge fund, as their previous employer withdraws from the business of managing money for outside clients.Money managers Frederic Favre and Alexandre Germak are joining former BlueCrest partner Melanie Owen […]