Category Archives: Syndicated
Pensions Picking Dollars, Shorted by Hedge Funds
Bloomberg- Whenever pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies decide they should own dollar assets that are out of favor with hedge funds, the hedge funds lose. Institutional investors bought more dollars than they’ve sold this year, according to State […]
Candy companies blame higher prices on hedge funds
Baltimore Sun- The price of Cadbury PLC’s Caramello candy bar is up 10 percent over the past 12 months, raising a sticky question: Are hedge funds to blame? Soaring cocoa prices are driving up the cost of chocolate around the […]
Pensions’ Dollars Shorted by Hedge Funds Have History on Side
Bloomberg – Whenever pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies decide they should own dollar assets that are out of favor with hedge funds, the hedge funds lose. Institutional investors bought more dollars than they’ve sold this year, according to […]
UK advises China on private equity industry
Forbes.com – The UK government is advising China on its private equity industry, with the Treasury passing papers on tax and regulation to Beijing, the Financial Times reported. The newspaper said the move reflects London’s desire to gain a strategic […]
Steel Partners wins landmark Japanese board ouster
Reuters- U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners helped oust the president and most of the board of Japanese wig maker Aderans Holdings on Thursday, the first time management of a Japanese firm has been ejected under pressure from an activist fund. […]
Conseco rejects hedge fund proposal
Reuters – Conseco Inc on Thursday rejected hedge fund Steel Partners’ request to raise its shareholding in the insurance company to as much as 22 percent, saying the proposal could reduce its "financial flexibility." Conseco told Steel Partners in a […]
Russia-focused fund becomes first listing on London’s Specialist Fund Market
HedgeWeek – A hedge fund focusing on Russia and the former Soviet Union, Da Vinci CIS Private Sector Growth Fund, has become the first listing on the Specialist Fund Market, the London Stock Exchange’s new market for alternative investment vehicles. […]
Bear Stearns passes into Wall Street history
Financial Times – Jimmy Cayne apologised for the first time to Bear Stearns shareholders and employees on Thursday as the investment bank he helped build into a scrappy powerhouse formally disappeared into Wall Street history as the biggest victim of […]
Triple A to seed new S.Korea focused hedge fund
Reuters – Boutique alternative fund firm Triple A Partners said on Friday it was backing a new South Korea-focused hedge fund which it expects to launch on Sept. 1 with around $40 million in assets. Triple A, also known as […]
Super funds eye hedge funds
Money Management- A survey of some of Australia’s biggest superannuation funds has found that they intend to increase their average allocations to hedge funds from 2.5 to 3.5 per cent over the next two to five years, according to a […]
Man Group year profit surges 60%
Reuters- Man Group, the world’s biggest listed hedge fund company, posted a 60 percent rise in annual profit on Thursday, riding turbulent financial markets to show strong growth in funds under management which fuelled record management fees. Chief Executive Peter […]
Macro hedge funds post double-digit returns
Wealth Bulletin- Macro hedge funds that place bets based on views of the global economic outlook have shown returns of more than 12% this year, outperforming the S&P 500 index by about 17%, data from Hedge Fund Research revealed, according […]