Category Archives: Syndicated
Burning hedges blow smoke on Busson
The Australian – ARPAD Busson is angry. He has just looked at the returns of a hedge fund he used to invest in and they’re down more than 60 per cent in the past nine months. "That a-hole!" Busson says […]
White Plains hedge funds sued in Madoff investment scandal
Lower Hudson Journal news – Four hedge funds are at the center of a federal class-action lawsuit accusing them of steering millions of dollars from investors to Bernard Madoff. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, charges that […]
TCI founder, partner Degorce leaves hedge firm
Forbes – Patrick Degorce, a founder and partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), has left the company, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. Degorce was in the public eye in early 2007 when he […]
Hedge Funds Not Alone in Defending Short-Selling Secrecy
Seeking Alpha – The debate over short selling often pits traditional “long-only” managers against the upstart alternatives: hedge funds. But as this report in yesterday’s FT points out, the lines between “traditional” and “alternative” are blurring quickly. The Alternative Investment […]
Madoff May Cost Insurers $1 Billion to Cover Funds
Bloomberg – Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme may cost insurers who cover financial institutions more than $1 billion as they pay legal costs for investment managers who gave client money to Madoff, an industry executive said. Insurers who sell such […]
Alleged hedge fund scammer is arrested
San Francisco Gate – Friday, January 9, 2009 Alexander James Trabulse, 61, was taken into custody Monday, according to U.S Customs and Border Protection officials. He appeared later that day before U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Laporte in San Francisco and is […]
Outsourcing at hedge funds on the march
International Herald Tribune – It used to be that if you wanted a job done properly, you did it yourself. That no longer holds for the administration of hedge funds. The practice of doing middle- and back-office administrative work in-house, especially […]
Bank Safdie Dodges Madoff Loss, Predicts More Hedge Fund Rules
Bloomberg – Banque Safdie SA, the Geneva-based wealth manager that withdrew money invested with Bernard Madoff three years before his alleged Ponzi scheme unraveled, said the scandal will mean more hedge fund regulation. “What Madoff has done is highlight the […]
Uma Thurman No Help to Arpad Busson in Madoff Fraud’s Nightmare
Bloomberg – Arpad Busson is angry. He’s just looked at the latest returns of a hedge fund he used to invest in; it’s down more than 60 percent in the past nine months. “That a-hole!” Busson says of the New […]
Samberg’s Pequot Said to Face New SEC Insider-Trading Inquiry
Bloomberg – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new investigation into whether Pequot Capital Management Inc., the hedge fund run by Arthur Samberg, illegally profited in 2001 by tapping inside information on Microsoft Corp., two people familiar with […]
Universal banks winning battle for hedge business
Reuters – Broker-dealers such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are losing out in the battle for hedge funds’ dwindling pool of assets, as funds seek out banks with diverse sources of funding in a major shake-up of prime broking. […]