Category Archives: Syndicated

Fund admits short-selling bank shares

January 20, 2009 : Permalink

guardian.co.uk – A hedge fund admitted yesterday it had been speculating that shares in Barclays would fall. The admission by Lansdowne Partners that it had been shorting Barclays shares on Friday – a day when the bank lost a quarter […]

Hedge Fund Seeks Continental AG Chairman’s Ouster, FTD Reports

January 20, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – A hedge fund led by Frank Scheunert wants to oust Continental AG Chairman Hubertus von Gruenberg, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing the investor. Scheunert, who controls about 5 percent of the tiremaker’s stock, said Continental’s board is “destroying […]

Hopes high as Obama takes office

January 20, 2009 : Permalink

Reuters – Barack Obama takes over as U.S. president on Tuesday with hopes riding high he can conjure up a rescue that will jolt the world’s biggest economy back to life and contain the financial crisis ravaging global markets. The […]

Hedge funds fold

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

The Washington Times – Year after year, the hedge fund industry dazzled Wall Street by delivering "absolute returns" – outsized profits whether markets rose or fell. Using sophisticated trading models, the pools of managed capital made wealthy people wealthier with […]

Famed for piety, Jacob Merkin put faith and funds in Bernie Madoff

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

New York Daily News – Jacob Ezra Merkin was once revered as a wizard of Wall Street, an angel of charity and a lion of Judaic studies. Now he has earned infamy as a destroyer of wealth, a menace to philanthropy, a […]

Reality of the Hedge Fund Industry in 2009

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

Seekingalpha.com – The tide has gone out for hedge funds. Many have indicated that they "feel" X% of the hedge fund industry will go under. Perhaps a little data and a crude stab at a model will improve a rather […]

In Lieu of Bailout, a New Strategy

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

Atlanta Journal Constitution – Unlike the nation’s banks, hedge funds haven’t been lining up for government bailouts in the wake of losses they can’t handle. But the funds do share one Wall Street problem: a huge mismatch between the short-term […]

Battered Wall St tops Obama inaugural donors-study

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

Daily Monitor – Wall Street may be bruised and battered, but it still donated more money than any other U.S. industry to President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural festivities on Tuesday, a study has found. The Center for Responsive Politics said executives […]

Hedge Fund Peers Come to Merkin’s Defense

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

TheStreet.com – Two contemporaries rushed to the defense of hedge fund manager Ezra Merkin, who is reportedly being investigated by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo after his investors lost billions of dollars linked to disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff. […]

Hedge fund industry could become the investment banks of the future

January 19, 2009 : Permalink

Times Online – Mark Twain said that visiting a fortune-teller “was just as good as going to the opera, and the cost scarcely a trifle more — ergo, I will disguise myself and go again”. But he was visiting a […]

Bard College lost $3 million in Madoff scheme

January 16, 2009 : Permalink

Daily Freeman – Bard College said on Thursday that it lost about $3 million in investments tied to disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff. Bard spokesman Mark Primoff said the losses came in the Northern Dutchess school’s $270 million endowment […]

Bank of America Receives $138 Billion of Rescue Funds

January 16, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. bank by assets, received a $138 billion emergency lifeline from the government to support its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. and prevent the global financial crisis from deepening. The U.S. […]