Category Archives: Syndicated
Duff: Hedge Funds to Fail at Historic Level
CNBC- For the first time, more hedge funds will fail this year than are originated, according to Philip Duff, of Duff Capital Advisors. In a rare interview with CNBC, Duff said the difficulty in gauging the health of banks has […]
Behind Trojan walls
Investors Chronicle- In Homer’s Iliad, Troy was razed to the ground by Greek warriors, but Troy Asset Management aims to put up a much better defence for its investors. The boutique fund manager takes its name not from the ancient […]
New player on the bad loan scene
Star News Online- Dozens of hedge funds, private equity groups and other investors have plunged into the beaten-down mortgage market in recent months, buying tens of thousands of distressed loans and foreclosed properties around the country. They hope to profit […]
Bay Hill Launches Maiden Hedge Fund
FINalternatives- Boston and San Francisco-based Bay Hill Capital Management this month launched its first hedge fund, a multi-strategy volatility offering with $25 million in initial assets. According to Alec Petro, managing partner, the Bay Hill Fund has three sub-strategies: volatility […]
Harbinger Capital Builds 6.6% Stake in Sunoco
Seeking Alpha- In a 13G filing after the close Friday on Sunoco, Inc. (SUN), Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital disclosed a 6.6% stake (7,732,600 shares) in the company. The hedge fund did not show a stake in Sunoco at the quarter […]
Attack of the acronyms
WA Today- Australia’s biggest life insurer and funds manager, AMP, was ducking for cover today. What are AMP’s holdings of CDOs, CLOs ABSs and CDSs? Not much of an answer to that one. "We are holding a number of these […]
ANALYSIS-Hedge funds sell oil as ratio to gold narrows
Reuters UK- The tumble in the price of oil over the past few weeks may have been exacerbated by hedge funds deciding that it was just too expensive, particularly in relation to gold. While much of the fall has been […]
`Slick’ Bets Propel Bluegold Returns a Monsterous 160%
New York Post- Hedge fund BlueGold Capital might have struck black gold, with oil bets driving returns up a whopping 160 percent through the end of June. BlueGold just opened for business in February, but its eye-popping returns have already […]
KKR Aims to Catch Blackstone With Offering, New Funds
Bloomberg- Henry Kravis is taking KKR & Co. public and moving into real estate and stock funds as he tries to catch up with Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm. KKR, co-founded by Kravis in 1976, […]
European hedge fund launches fall to six-year low
Reuters UK- European hedge fund launches in the first half of 2008 fell to their lowest level since the last bear market, a survey showed on Monday, as the credit crisis hit investors’ confidence. The survey by EuroHedge, part of […]
Hedge fund buys 5.3 percent of RadioShack stock
Fort Worth Star Telegram- Citadel Investment Group is bullish on RadioShack, buying 6.9 million shares, or 5.3 percent of the electronics retail chain’s stock, according to a federal filing Monday. With the purchase, the Chicago-based hedge fund becomes the fourth-largest […]
Hedge fund may increase stake in Alcoa
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review- Activist shareholder Highfields Capital Management LP has alerted Alcoa Inc. it may increase its stake in the aluminum maker to as much as 8 percent, a move that would make the Boston-based hedge fund the company’s largest shareholder. […]