Category Archives: Syndicated
Investors force Wallace out
WA Today – Richard Wallace has been ousted from the hedge fund he founded after the listed asset manager made losing bets throughout the financial crisis. Mr Wallace, who is based in Sydney, will no longer manage the Australian-listed hedge fund for […]
Hedge Funds, Buyout Firms Say Regulation Unstoppable
Bloombergb – Hedge funds and private-equity firms, after opposing increased federal oversight for years, said they can’t escape the Obama administration’s plan to include them in an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation. “We’re not going to be able to stand […]
Hedge fund industry still feeling Madoff effect
Reuters – Bernard Madoff is behind bars, but the effects of his fraud are still reverberating in the hedge fund industry, with more redemptions expected and investor confidence decimated. Traumatized investors are now more likely to closely monitor where their money […]
Ponzi Funds Said Missing
Wall Street Journal – Prosecutors said $160 million is unaccounted for in a Ponzi scheme allegedly run by hedge-fund manager James Nicholson. At a bail hearing Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria E. Douvas said the government’s investigation showed that $293 […]
GLG hedge fund executives reduce their salaries to $1
Financial Times – The top three executives at GLG Partners, until recently Europe’s biggest hedge fund, have cut their salaries to $1 (69p) as the global financial turmoil puts pressure on senior managers to waive their pay. Noam Gottesmann and […]
Man Group shares jump as payout is maintained
Marketwatch – Shares in hedge fund manager Man Group jumped around 11% Thursday after the firm maintained its dividend payout and launched a new investment management business. The firm said it expects adjusted pretax profit for the year ending March […]
Hedge funds ponder Obama’s carrot, fear stick
MSNBC – Hedge funds are being offered a sweet deal to help the Obama administration rescue the U.S. banking system: A low-risk opportunity to scoop up soured bank assets that could one day make them a killing. But the deal […]
$100 million recovered in hedge-fund fraud case
Seattle Times – An official appointed to recover the assets of a prominent Manhattan lawyer accused of defrauding hedge funds of at least $400 million says he has safeguarded more than $100 million in assets, including an $18.5 million yacht. […]
Hedge funds that stay liquid, stay alive
Reuters – The heat is on hedge funds to outperform markets and prove their worth to skeptical investors, and to do so requires strategies based on riding out spikes in volatility, seeking liquidity and deft trading. Returns this year will, […]
Sears hedge fund guru a stranger to ‘richest’ list he once headed
Chicago Sun-Times – Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman and hedge-fund guru Edward S. Lampert failed for the fourth year to make a list he once topped — the richest hedge-fund managers in the nation. Lampert, who takes no salary from the […]