Category Archives: Syndicated
Hedge funds prove slow to adopt best-practice valuation
Wealth Bulletin- In January, 14 of the UK’s largest hedge funds, including Man Group, Brevan Howard and Gartmore, backed the Hedge Fund Working Group’s best-practice standards. These aim to improve governance and disclosure and to promote transparent and independent valuation. […]
Regulators probe stock manipulation by rumor
Los Angeles Times- Wall Street regulators are examining whether securities firms adequately police rumor-mongering used to manipulate stocks after shares of Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled last week. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s inspections unit; […]
SEC mounts attack on the rumor mill
Boston Globe- The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday said that it and other regulators would begin examining rumor-spreading intended to manipulate securities prices. The timing of the announcement, made before the markets opened in Asia, was meant to warn broker-dealers, […]
E&Y wins Caymans hedge fund row
The US Supreme Court has thrown out negligent audit claims made against Ernst & Young in the wake of a hedge fund collapsing. Liquidators sued the firm’s Cayman Islands unit, accusing E&Y of performing a below-par audit of the Beacon […]
Leopard Capital Competes to Invest in Cambodia Acleda Bank
Bloomberg – Leopard Capital, which is setting up a $100 million private-equity fund to invest in Cambodia, said it’s competing to buy a stake in Acleda Bank Plc, the largest Cambodian bank. “It’s the best-run bank, it’s clean and it […]
Hedge fund puts freeze on withdrawals
Investment News – Investors in Sandelman Partners LP’s $3.2 billion multistrategy hedge fund will not be able to make withdrawals due to a restructuring of the fund, The Wall Street Journal reported. The announcement came after 20% of stakeholders in […]
Man says demand for fund products remained strong
Reuters – Man Group Plc, the world’s biggest listed hedge fund company, said demand for its fund products had remained strong in the first quarter and it was confident about its prospects for the full year. Sales in the three […]
Fortis sells hedge fund International Asset Management
Reuters – Belgian-Dutch financial services group Fortis said on Wednesday it had sold former ABN AMRO unit International Asset Management IAM.L as part of a strategy to bolster its balance sheet. Fortis said in a statement it had sold London-based […]
Devaney’s Funds Wiped Out After United Capital Gets Margin Call
Bloomberg- John Devaney is liquidating hedge funds at his United Capital Markets Holdings Inc. after failing to meet a margin call from Deutsche Bank AG. Deutsche Bank seized and auctioned off collateral after the Horizon group of funds failed to […]
Info War: Turning The Regulators Back Against The Hedge Funds
DealBreaker.Com- If your memory stretches past last summer, you might recall that before the current debacle settled on Wall Street there was a lot of sound and fury raised about hedge funds. The rise of hedge funds was said to […]