Category Archives: Syndicated
KSK Energy Fund wound up
Reuters India – KSK Emerging India Energy Fund had raised £100 million from AIM last year to invest in Indian energy companies. Global recession has claimed a victim in India. KSK Emerging India Energy Fund (KEF), a £100 million fund […]
Dan K. Thomasson: Gordon Gekko lives
Inside Bay Area – Not Terribly long ago all that was wrong with Wall Street was embodied in the character Gordon Gekko as portrayed by actor Michael Douglas in the smash hit movie, "Wall Street." For those who missed the […]
Education endowments put more with hedge funds
Universities and schools put more money into alternative investments like hedge funds in fiscal 2008, researchers reported on Tuesday. The Commonfund Institute, a group that polled 628 educational endowments on their investment tastes, found their appetite for alternatives increased slightly […]
Elliott Hedge Fund Bought Fictitious Securities From Dreier
Bloomberg – Elliott Management Corp., the $12.8 billion hedge-fund firm founded by Paul Singer 32 years ago, told clients that it bought securities from Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer jailed for alleged fraud. Elliott lost money on promissory notes […]
Treasury Select Committee turns the spotlight on hedge funds
Times Online – They are the financial world’s most secretive and unaccountable men — but also among its wealthiest and most influential. Today, four of the sharpest speculators in the hedge fund industry will be thrust into the spotlight when […]
Colombia, Venezuela form $200 million fund to boost trade
Jamaica Gleaner – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela pledged Saturday to invest US$100 million each in a special fund in hopes of boosting cross-border trade as the world economic crisis slashes global demand for their exports. The cash will […]
Royal Bank of Canada Sued Over Failed Hedge Funds
Bloomberg – Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s biggest bank by assets, was sued by investors in Olympus United Funds who claim they lost more than $90 million in the funds’ collapse. Royal Bank, based in Toronto, “secretly managed” the […]
Has the moment for greater UK hedge fund regulation passed?
Reuters – Tuesday’s grilling of UK hedge fund executives is likely to create plenty of noise but produce little in the way of new rules. While media-shy TCI founder Chris Hohn and others will face tough questions from the Treasury Select Committee […]
Historic closure of gold shops in Bangkok’s Chinatown
Thai News Agency MCOT – Gold traders in Bangkok’s Chinatown closed their doors at their peak annual sales period for their shops during the Chinese New Year for the first time on record due to the high fluctuation of gold […]