Category Archives: Syndicated

Business Insight: Managers, strategies important with hedge funds

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Citadel, Hedge Funds Bet $3 Billion on Gas After Amaranth Falls

Bloomberg – Citadel Investment Group LLC, the $12 billion hedge fund manager, T. Boone Pickens and the Merchant Commodity fund expect natural gas to rebound from a historic losing streak. Hedge funds amassed a $3 billion wager on rising prices […]

Hedge funds seen posing risk to mkts, tighter regulations needed

Forbes – Hedge funds present a risk to the financial markets and tighter regulations are needed, a majority of private economists said in a new survey conducted by the onlineedition of the Wall Street Journal. In a survey conducted during […]

Regulators play catch-up over access to data

MSN MoneyCentral – This autumn in London, a striking new trend is afoot in the hedge fund world: increasing numbers of funds are talking to lawyers before placing trades in the credit markets. Some funds are apparently so nervous about […]

Hedge-Fund Interest in Turnarounds Rises

MSN MoneyCentral – A new survey indicates a marked increase in hedge-fund and private-equity involvement in corporate turnarounds, but a pronounced decline in both in-court and out-of-courtrestructuring work for turnaround professionals. More than 200 turnaround, financial-advisory and consulting firms that […]

Morgan Stanley to buy 20 pct of hedge fund

Reuters – Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund specializing in distressed debt, is in advanced talks to sell around 20 percent of itself to the asset-management arm of investment bank Morgan Stanley,the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The deal […]

Hedge funds say to wait for Ahold assets review

Reuters – Hedge funds Centaurus Capital and Paulson said on Thursday they would not take any action in pursuit of a breakup of Dutch retailer Ahold until they had seen results from a planned assetsreview. The funds, which together own […]

Fund set to buy 2 sites in W. Palm

Palm Beach Post – Has the fat lady sung at Opera Place? A New York-based hedge fund confirmed it has contracts to buy two troubled downtown properties, including land belonging to the still-unbuilt Opera Place condo, the largest private development […]

Hedge fund pushes for sale of Phelps

Globe and Mail – Atticus Capital LLC, the New York hedge fund that recently helped scuttle Phelps Dodge Corp.’s friendly bid for Inco Ltd., is now talking with potential buyers for the U.S. copper producer. In a regulatory filing, Atticus, […]

Hedge funds heed call of the wild in EMs

Euro2day – Hedge funds are piling into emerging markets. In the past year alone, they have more than tripled their trading in emerging market bonds and now account for 45 per cent of annual volumes, according to research conducted by […]

LSE-holding funds hint that ready to sell at around 13 stg/share

Forbes – Hedge funds holding about 20 pct of the London Stock Exchange have privately indicated their willingness to tender shares at a price of about 13 stg each to a potential bid, the Financial Times reported. US-based Nasdaq has […]

New Star to Launch Hedge Fund Index Tracker

Black Enterprise – New Star Asset Management is to launch a passive hedge fund index tracker that aims to better mirror industry returns. The Hedge ETS will be a London-listed daily tradablesecurity, providing access to performance representative of the hedge […]