Category Archives: Syndicated

Hedge Fund Elliott Sold Wing Hang Bank Shares for HK$387 Million

Bloomberg – Elliott Management Corp., Paul Singer’s hedge-fund firm, sold shares in Wing Hang Bank Ltd. (302) for HK$3 billion ($387 million) near the end of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.’s offer to take the lender private. Elliott, with $24.8 billion of […]

Alberto Micalizzi: The Hedge Fund Academic Who Fell From Grace

WSJ – When Italian academic Alberto Micalizzi moved into the world of hedge funds, he was following a path taken by the likes of David Shaw, founder of D.E. Shaw, and James Simons of Renaissance Technologies. But for Mr. Micalizzi, […]

More woes for hedge fund adviser

Personal Finance – The Ombud for Financial Services Providers has handed down another ruling – the fifth so far – against financial adviser Michal Calitz, who advised a number of his clients to invest in the Relative Value Arbitrage Fund […]

Hedge fund billionaire takes aim at Scott, others

The Tampa Tribune – A hedge fund billionaire-turned-environmentalist who is seeking to boost the political importance of climate change has his eye on knocking off Florida Gov. Rick Scott. San Francisco-based NextGen Climate Action Committee last month gave $750,000 to […]

Stock Market Ends July in Dive, but Analysts Are Upbeat

Dealbook – The stock market ended July with the sharpest decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index since April, while the Dow Jones industrial index fell more than 300 points, enough to eliminate all of its gains for the […]

Profits Soaring After Disgrace at Cohen’s Hedge Fund

NYTimes – Three months after his once-powerful hedge fund entered a guilty plea to insider trading charges, Steven A. Cohen is doing quite well. This summer, Mr. Cohen and his family rented a yacht off the Greek islands for a […]

Britain Upholds Ban of Defunct Hedge Fund’s Former Chief

NYT – A British tribunal has dismissed an appeal by Alberto Micalizzi, formerly chief executive of the defunct London hedge fund Dynamic Decisions Capital Management, who two years ago was fined and barred from working in the financial sector in […]

Mergermarket buys The Hedge Fund Law Report

Reuters – Mergermarket Group, a BC Partners portfolio company, today announced that it has acquired The Law Report Group, the New York-based publisher of The Hedge Fund Law Report and The FCPA Report. The acquisition bolsters Mergermarket Group’s legal and regulatory expertise. The Hedge Fund Law […]

Argentina Finds Relentless Foe in Paul Singer’s Hedge Fund

NYT – The hedge fund firm of billionaire Paul E. Singer has about 300 employees, yet it has managed to force Argentina, a nation of 41 million people, into a position where it now has to contemplate a humbling surrender. […]

Malcolm Turnbull’s son said to start hedge fund in Singapore

Sydney Morning Herald – Alex Turnbull, son of Federal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is planning a Singapore-based hedge fund, said people with knowledge of the matter. Mr Turnbull, who has been an executive director of Goldman Sachs Group’s special situations […]

U.K. Ban Upheld on Hedge-Fund Manager Alberto Micalizzi

WSJ – A U.K. tribunal has upheld a ban against hedge fund manager Alberto Micalizzi, finding that his conduct was “at the most serious end of the scale.” It stops him from working in regulated financial services. The tribunal, which […]

Returns Drive Fees In Private Equity And Hedge Funds

Forbes – If returns are meant to justify the fee levels being charged by private equity and hedge funds, then it is incumbent on all parties to clearly understand and report these returns accurately. To measure the performance of a […]