Category Archives: Syndicated
Madoff faces 150-year sentence after guilty plea
Hindustan Times – Bernard Madoff, whose $50-billion fraud devastated individual and institutional investors worldwide, could spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty later this week. In a court hearing Tuesday, defence lawyer Ira Sorkin said that Madoff would […]
Hedge fund takes HSBC short position
Reuters – U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital is the first company to declare a short position in HSBC following the bank’s record rights issue, after making millions from a similar tactic with UK bank HBOS last year. Harbinger said in […]
Craigslist: Fall Guy For Your Hedge Fund
The Consumerist – Humor – If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there’s a guy on Craigslist who’s looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing […]
Placer County supervisors hedge bets on stimulus solving sewer woes
Auburn Journal – Placer County is pumping money into a North Auburn sewer treatment plant upgrade while seeking federal funding for a pricey regional wastewater pipeline from North Auburn to Lincoln. No decision has been made to commit to either […]
Virgin America CEO sees good times ahead
San Francisco Chronicle – Virgin America could not have picked a worse time to launch an airline, on the eve of gravity-defying fuel prices and a cruel recession. The financial numbers are still red after a year and a half […]
Hedge fund monitor says short selling ban is ‘rubbish’
News.com.au – An independent monitor of local hedge funds has rubbished claims domestic financial stocks would be targerted if the ban on short selling was lifted. Australian Fund Monitors’ chief executive Chris Gosselin hosed down concerns expressed by the Australian […]
Newedge, Amiri Capital to launch Islamic hedge FoF
Reuters – Amiri Capital, the Islamic asset manager backed by investment firm Olivant, said on Monday it has teamed up with broker Newedge to launch the first Islamic fund of long/short hedge funds marketed in the Middle East. The partnership […]
U.S. hedge fund takes HSBC short
International Herald Tribune – U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital is the first company to declare a short position in HSBC following the bank’s record rights issue, after making millions from a similar tactic with UK bank HBOS last year. Harbinger said […]
Hedge fund Artradis hires RBS’s Dredge
Reuters – Artradis Fund Management, Singapore’s largest hedge fund manager, said on Monday it has hired David Dredge from Royal Bank of Scotland as managing director for portfolio management. Dredge was deputy global head of local markets at RBS as […]
A Graphical Look at Hedge Fund Leverage
Seeking Alpha – Britain’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) recently found that hedge fund leverage was nearly extinct (for now). In what is billed by the FT as the “only authoritative data on the opaque industry”, the FSA found that the […]