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Morgan Stanley’s Frontier Fund Issues Over 7 Million Shares
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Morgan Stanley Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) has issued 7,100,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20 per share resulting in gross proceeds to the Fund of approximately $142,000,000. The […]
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank files suit over losses of London-based SIV
Financial Times – Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has filed a lawsuit against two US banks and two rating agencies over losses from a collapsed $6bn structured investment vehicle, formerly managed by London-based hedge fund Cheyne Capital. In the suit in […]
Goldman And Morgan Link Hedge Fund Lending To Their Own Financial Health
DealBreaker.Com – Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are linking their lending to hedge funds to the market’s assessment of the credit worthiness of the investment banks. Morgan Stanley will reportedly evaluate the amount of leverage it will supply to hedge […]
Morgan Stanley, Goldman change lending systems
Boston Globe – Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are responding to the credit crisis with a system that uses the market’s view of their own creditworthiness as a basis for lending decisions, the Financial Times reported. Wall Street’s second-largest investment […]
Cuomo Pressing Major Banks in ARS Probe
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Less than one week after UBS and Citigroup were called upon to buy back over $30 billion in bad auction-rate securities, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is forcing JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Wachovia to follow […]
Merrill, Citigroup to Buy Back $30 Billion in ARS
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, two banks that have already written down billions in losses, will buy back $30 billion in auction-rate securities as part of an agreement with regulators. This comes after the threat made by […]
Traders head for hedge funds
Times Online- They may be partly responsible for the mess the banks are in but bankers are not sticking around for the clean-up. Many top bankers have lost confidence in their institutions and are quietly heading for the exit. The […]
Two New Additions To BNP Paribas’ Hedge Fund Team
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- BNP Paribas has appointed Thomas Mahala and Jason Miller to its global hedge fund relationship management team (HFRM). BNP Paribas now has over a dozen relationship management professionals located in New York, London and Hong Kong […]
Hedge fund chief warns of worse to come
Financial Times- A hedge fund manager who made some of the biggest profits from the global credit crisis said on Wednesday there was worse to come as evidence mounted that banks are struggling to regain their earnings power and properly […]
Morgan Stanley, Citi Lose Oil Analysts as Hedge Funds Hire
Bloomberg- Wall Street is losing its top oil analysts as securities firms suffer record losses and hedge funds offer the promise of higher pay. Morgan Stanley’s Douglas Terreson and Citigroup Inc.’s Doug Leggate, ranked first and second by Institutional Investor […]
Ex-Morgan Stanley Japan experts launch hedge fund
Asian Investor – The Shaka Japan fund has been launched in New York by hedge fund manager Shaka Capital Management. It is a new start-up, launched in January of this year with partners’ capital, and has an estimated capacity of […]
