Tag Archives: chris-hohn


Hedge fund manager Chris Hohn donates £500m to his wife’s charity

July 6, 2009 : Permalink

Guardian.co.uk – The secretive hedge fund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children’s charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday. The £486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn’s hedge fund […]

Treasury Select Committee MPs accuse funds of cashing in on misery

January 28, 2009 : Permalink

Times Online – Hedge funds were accused by MPs yesterday of gambling against the taxpayer when they bet that the share prices of British banks would fall. Appearing before the Treasury Select Committee, four leading hedge fund managers were told […]

Has the moment for greater UK hedge fund regulation passed?

January 27, 2009 : Permalink

Reuters – Tuesday’s grilling of UK hedge fund executives is likely to create plenty of noise but produce little in the way of new rules. While media-shy TCI founder Chris Hohn and others will face tough questions from the Treasury Select Committee […]

Hedge fund chiefs face grilling on role in crisis

January 26, 2009 : Permalink

guardian.co.uk – Secretive hedge fund barons, blamed by many for undermining Britain’s financial stability, will be unmasked on Tuesday when they are forced into the public spotlight by the powerful Treasury select committee. As suggestions grow that hedge funds have […]

Ruling: Hedge Funds Receive Their Rightful Seats on Board

September 16, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund TCI has won two more seats on the board of railroad operator CSX, in what looks to be the finale of a year-long proxy battle.  A U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled yesterday in […]

CSX Concedes Two Board Seats to Hedge Funds

July 28, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – CSX looks to be cutting some slack to the two rebel hedge funds that have been on a quest to restructure their board of directors.  The railroad company said that it will give two seats to […]