Tag Archives: casualties


Seven investor group to buy IndyMac at $13.9b

January 5, 2009 : Permalink

Saudi Gazette – A seven-member investor group including billionaire George Soros and Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell have agreed to purchase failed lender IndyMac Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, for $13.9 billion. IndyMac, which specialized […]

Pickens hedge fund has lost more than $1 billion

October 1, 2008 : Permalink

Houston Chronicle – Boone Pickens, the billionaire founder of BP Capital LLC, said 15 percent of his hedge funds’ holders have asked for the option to withdraw their money after he lost more than $1 billion in energy trades this […]

Hedge Funds Increase New York Times Stake

August 29, 2008 : Permalink

Wall Street Journal – Harbinger Capital Partners and Firebrand Investments LLC, the hedge funds that put two representatives on the board of the New York Times Co. this past spring, are again adding to their stake in the media company. […]

Lionhart aims to attract $2bn from Gulf

August 11, 2008 : Permalink

Zawya – The Lionhart Group, an alternative investment management group that specialises in global multistrategy arbitrage, aims to attract $2 billion (Dh7.4bn) of investment from the Gulf in the next few years through its new branch at the Dubai International […]

Fund managers most negative on equities in 10 years

July 17, 2008 : Permalink

Reuters- Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the Bear Stearns crisis in March, a Merrill Lynch poll showed […]