Category Archives: Syndicated
Into the fire – MM Capital launched fund into the financial crisis and returned +35.58% in 2008 raising assets to $50m
Opalesque – Launching in July 2007 with internal funds and the strength of a single seed donor New York-based MM Capital waded directly into the oncoming financial crisis with $6m in assets under management. In the midst of historic industry […]
Guinness family firm takes stake in hedge fund group
Forbes – The investment office of the Guinness family, which made its fortune in brewing, has taken a stake in 47 Degrees North and will back future fund launches, the fund of hedge funds firm said on Monday. Under the […]
UBS could sell hedge fund unit to management
Reuters Zurich – UBS AG is considering selling all or part of its hedge funds business Alternative & Quantitative Investments in a management buyout, a Swiss newspaper reported on Tuesday. Citing unnamed financial sources, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung said a […]
Morris Emerges as Key Figure in Probe of New York Pension Fund
Bloomberg – Former Democratic political adviser Hank Morris and New York State Deputy Comptroller David Loglisci may hold the keys as authorities examine whether private equity firms and hedge funds knowingly paid kickbacks to manage state pension money. The pair, […]
Bay State firm is sued in Madoff scandal
Boston Globe – Investors of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have filed 18 lawsuits against Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in an effort to recoup $3.3 billion that its hedge fund group lost in the scandal. But the Springfield insurer is […]
Are Pension Funds the New Venture Capitalists?
Seeking Alpha – According to "Calpers Weighs Expanding Own Hedge-Fund Investments" by Jenny Strasburg and Craig Karmin (Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2009), the giant California pension fund may be the first stop for fledgling hedge fund managers who seek […]
Bill Miller Not Dead Yet With Value Funds Burying Quants in ’09
Bloomberg – Companies with the most debt and lowest returns on assets are turning the biggest six-week rally in stocks since 1938 into a bloodbath for last year’s best- performing trading strategy. Investors in so-called quantitative momentum funds — which […]
Glaxo to buy Stiefel Labs for up to $3.6 billion
Reuters UK – GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-largest drugmaker, has agreed to buy privately owned U.S. skincare specialist Stiefel Laboratories Inc for up to $3.6 billion, the two companies said on Monday. The acquisition is the latest in a string […]
Rich G7 can’t go it alone to calm economic storm
Reuters – Finance ministers from rich nations, when they meet on Friday, will face less economic turbulence than at their last gathering two months ago, but they recognize they need developing nations to step up spending to revive the world […]
China Zhongwang plans 2009’s largest IPO at $1.6 bln
Reuters – China Zhongwang Holdings, Asia’s biggest maker of aluminium extrusion products, began marketing on Monday for a Hong Kong IPO to raise as much as $1.58 billion in what would be the world’s largest new listing so far this […]