Tag Archives: collapse
The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund
Dallas Morning News – To bank employees monitoring the hedge fund’s collapse, the e-mailed instructions were emphatic. "No securities, or cash, FOR ANY REASON are allowed to be sent out from JP Morgan." At issue that morning last November were […]
Lehman yields bonanza for the professionals
Times Online – Accountants and lawyers who are trying to sort out the European collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, have charged more than £100million in fees in six months. The bonanza shows no sign of abating. PricewaterhouseCoopers […]
Austrian banker who pleaded guilty in US might walk
SmartBrief – Michael Berger, an Austrian banker accused of securities fraud, might go free without facing any charges, Vienna prosecutors said. Berger pleaded guilty to securities fraud in Manhattan, N.Y., in 2000 after the $400 million collapse of his hedge […]
White House ponders: Are some hedge funds too big to fail?
<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> Marketwatch – When the $9.2 billion Connecticut hedge fund Amaranth Advisors collapsed in 2006, securities attorneys jumped all over each other to express gleefully how the markets absorbed […]
Hedge funds see $159-bn outflows in Oct-Dec period
Business Standard – Spooked by increasing performance losses and record investor redemptions, the global hedge fund industry saw net outflows worth $158.91 billion in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2008, the highest level since 1994. According to a report […]
Big Falls in Hedge Fund Borrowing
Financial Times – Hedge funds cut their borrowing to almost nothing in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to research by the City watchdog. Data compiled by the Financial Services Authority show that leverage fell to just […]
Paulson Likes Distressed Assets Amid Global Recession
Bloomberg – Distressed assets offer the best investment opportunities this year as the global recession deepens, billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson said. “The decline in the market has created a very good buying opportunity,” Paulson, 53, whose New York-based Paulson […]
Soros Says Economic Crisis Signals End of a Free-Market Model
Bloomberg – Billionaire investor George Soros said the current economic upheaval has its roots in the financial deregulation of the 1980s and signals the end of a free-market model that has since dominated capitalist countries. Liberalization of the financial industry […]
Wachovia to Buy Back Auction Rate Securities from Clients
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Wachovia customers who invested in auction rate securities prior to their collapse will most likely get their money back. The SEC announced a settlement yesterday with Wachovia Securities that will provide $7 billion in liquidity to […]
Royal Bank of Canada Sued Over Failed Hedge Funds
Bloomberg – Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s biggest bank by assets, was sued by investors in Olympus United Funds who claim they lost more than $90 million in the funds’ collapse. Royal Bank, based in Toronto, “secretly managed” the […]
