Category Archives: Syndicated
Wall Street Finance “Banking” On Hollywood?
CNBC – The Wall Street fallout is having aftershocks throughout the economy, but believe it or not, the entertainment industry is having no problem securing bank-financed credit. Sure, it’s not boom time, but the fact that media companies are able […]
Cameron hit by new hedge-fund row as Tory Party conference begins
Times Online – The Tory party conference got off to an embarrassing start today after it emerged that the Conservatives have taken large donations from hedge-fund managers whose firms made vast sums of money from taking bets in some of […]
Fund Managers Rattled as Rescue Plan’s Rejection Shakes Markets
Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland – “I’ve never lived through something like that,” Stephen Jarislowsky, the 83-year-old chairman and founder of Montreal-based money manager Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., said yesterday about the past month on Wall Street. “I don’t even think the […]
Two equity firms buy Lehman’s money management unit
International Herald Tribune – Lehman Brothers said Monday that it would sell for $2.15 billion much of its money management business, including its prized Neuberger Berman asset management unit, to Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman. The sale of the business, […]
Financial Armageddon Possible Tomorrow, Says Tom Wolfe
Gawker – Last week the Observer, Tom Wolfe said the truly rich would be protected from the Wall Street meltdown because all the smart guys had long since decamped for hedge funds, leaving investment banks staffed by "real second-raters." This […]
Hedge funds to hand back millions
Telegraph.co.uk – In the biggest-ever round of redemptions, funds around the world are braced to give back between 10pc and 50pc of their assets under management. Hedge funds were faced with a slew of redemption notices at the start of […]
Hedge Funds Are Bracing for Investors to Cash Out
New York Times – First, the money rushed into hedge funds. Now, some fear, it could rush out. Even as Washington reached a tentative agreement on Sunday over what may become the largest financial bailout in American history, new worries […]
Golden age of hedge funds dims
International Herald Tribune – Making millions – or even a few billion – by managing a hedge fund has been a running dream on Wall Street in recent years. But suddenly even the masters of this $2 trillion universe are […]
How hedge funds, tax exiles and City financiers helped fund the Tories
Guardian.co.uk – The Tories were accused last night of being bankrolled by a City ‘wolf pack’ after it emerged that the party was receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds from hedge fund managers who have been making vast sums of […]
Uncertainty hangs over hedge funds
Denver Post – First, the money rushed into hedge funds. Now, some fear, it could rush out. No one expects a wholesale flight from the nearly $2 trillion world of hedge funds, but even a modest outflow could reverberate through […]
Hedge funds grudgingly to reveal US short positions
Reuters – Hedge fund managers are reluctantly preparing to disclose their short positions to U.S. regulators on Monday, a move set to give a rare public glimpse into their secretive trading strategies two weeks later. For shareholders who have blamed […]
Man Group funds hit by market turbulence
Reuters UK – British listed hedge fund manager Man Group Plc said on Monday first-half sales rose by about 25 percent to $10 billion, but its shares fell as market turbulence hit its funds under management. Funds under management fell […]