Category Archives: Syndicated

SEC lawyers probed for insider trading

Reuters – Two U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement lawyers are under investigation by federal criminal authorities for allegedly using insider information to trade stocks, a report by the SEC’s internal watchdog said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. […]

2 face Macon hearing on fraud charges

Macon Telegraph – In Macon, 56-year-old Gary Sheldon Hutcheson and 52-year-old Saundra McKinney Pyles are expected to enter pleas Monday on charges of defrauding more than four dozen investors out of $2.11 million. The list of victims include well-known names […]

Why Isn’t There A Hedge Fund Bailout?

Atlantic Online – For all the talk these last few years about the risks to investors of "secretive, unregulated" hedge funds, they certainly haven’t turned out to be the big problem, have they? Thousands of hedge funds lost, in the […]

Hedge Funds Care gives grant

Caymen Net News – After an intensive grant selection process, Hedge Funds Care has agreed to distribute the US$247,647 raised at the 14 November 2008 event to support local projects designed to treat and prevent child abuse and neglect in […]

Aozora Posts 242.6 Billion Yen Loss on GMAC, Hedge Fund Losses

Bloomberg – Aozora Bank Ltd., the Japanese lender controlled by Cerberus Capital Management LP, posted its first loss in a decade, after investments in U.S. lender GMAC LLC and Bernard Madoff soured. The bank booked a 242.6 billion yen ($2.5 […]

Hedge funds wary of US govt

Straits Times – Hedge fund executives at the conference said Mr Obama’s deal undercut bankruptcy court rules that have long given priority to secured lenders. The White House move and its combative stance with hedge funds may keep some managers […]

Cayman Islands charges Robert Girvan in fund failure

Jamaica Observer – A Jamaican investment manager in the Cayman Islands has been charged in the collapse of four hedge funds based in the Caribbean offshore financial centre. Robert Christopher Girvan was charged with forgery, obtaining a money transfer by […]

Forzani Group rejects hedge fund\’s proxy demands

Reuters – Forzani Group recommended on Thursday that shareholders oppose a bid from a New York-based hedge fund attempting to nominate its own members to the board. The Canadian sporting-goods retailer said Crescendo Partners, which owns about 5 percent of […]

Obama’s barbed words worry corporate world

The Associated Press – Relations between President Barack Obama and U.S. corporate leaders have grown tense in recent weeks, with business groups bristling over his sharp rebukes of lenders and multinational companies in particular. Executives and trade groups that praised […]

Indea Hedge Fund Plans to Buy, Not ‘Panic,’ on Polls

Bloomberg – Indea Capital Pte, an India-focused hedge fund that manages about $300 million, plans to buy shares even if India’s election results disappoint investors, said Chief Investment Officer Raj Mishra. The ruling Congress party-led coalition and the main opposition-led […]

Dwight Anderson To Open 2 New Ospraie Hedge Funds

Seeking Alpha – If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This cliché is the root of folly on Wall Street and in the hedge fund industry in general. Perfect example: The Ospraie Fund’s Dwight Anderson is set to […]

Hedge fund managers leery of activist Uncle Sam

Forbes – Following a brutal 2008 of losses, plunging assets and the Madoff scandal, the activities of the Obama administration were a primary worry among the nearly 500 hedge fund managers and other industry executives gathering at a Las Vegas […]