Tag Archives: cocktail-party


Why hedge funds might shine in 2009

February 19, 2009 : Permalink

Morningstar.ca – Hedge fund managers, once the swashbuckling frontiersmen of international finance and subject of fawning cocktail party banter, have quickly gone from hero to goat. As the global credit bubble burst with a vengeance in 2008, so too did […]

Hedge-Fund Managers Help Raise $1.7 Million at Downsized Gala

February 10, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – The annual Hedge Funds Care benefit – – backed by Kenneth Tropin and Michael Vranos — will downsize from a black-tie dinner to a cocktail party tomorrow night in New York. The nonprofit, which aids child-abuse prevention programs, […]

Dillard’s shareholders demand access to records

December 9, 2008 : Permalink

Reuters – Two activist hedge funds of Dillard’s Inc are demanding access to inspect the retailer’s books and records, seeking greater transparency from the department store chain’s executives and family members. Dillard’s shares jumped 18 percent in Monday morning trading. […]

Barclays Sues Chicago Hedge Fund Over Ties to Petters

November 24, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Barclays Bank Plc has sued Chicago-based Ritchie Capital Management and the hedge fund’s principal Thane Ritchie, accusing them of concealing a $150 million investment in the controversial and now collapsed Petters Group Worldwide LLC. According to […]

MILTON BROS. FEEL HEAT ON FUNDS

August 25, 2008 : Permalink

New York Post – The heat is getting turned up under Alan and Philip Milton, the brother team that runs Greenwich-based Windmill Management and its embattled SageCrest hedge funds. A lawyer for an investor in the SageCrest II hedge fund […]

Oil speculators held great sway over prices, data suggest

August 21, 2008 : Permalink

Los Angeles Times – Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books […]

Bear Stearns Not Liable for Fraudulent Fund

July 1, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Bear Stearns has triumphed in a case involving disgruntled investors seeking $141 million for the losses they incurred following the collapse of the Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd., a hedge fund where Bear served as the prime […]