Tag Archives: christmas
Hedge clippers
Times Online – They must think it’s Christmas in Geneva. Alistair Darling delivered an early present last week by slapping a 50 per cent tax rate on top earners. Highly paid but footloose financiers are now betting when the rate […]
Westpac freeze on $1.2b held in US hedge fund
Sydney Morning Herald – The Westpac-controlled BT Investment Management delivered grim season’s greetings to retail investors when it froze withdrawals from a $1.2 billion fund days before Christmas. The funds manager suspended all redemptions from its Global Return Fund, which has […]
