Tag Archives: credit-strategies
Thames River plans two credit funds, US foray
Reuters – Thames River Capital is hoping to launch two investment grade credit strategies later this year and is looking at how best to target the U.S. institutional market, chief executive Charlie Porter told Reuters. The independent fund house, which […]
Thames River plans two credit funds, US foray
Reuters UK – Thames River Capital is hoping to launch two investment grade credit strategies later this year and is looking at how best to target the U.S. institutional market, chief executive Charlie Porter told Reuters. The independent fund house, […]
Charity sues Highland Capital for more than $1.8 million
Dallas Morning News – An Amarillo charitable foundation is suing Dallas-based Highland Capital Management LP to recover more than $1.8 million from a Highland hedge fund that was shut down in October after heavy losses. The Mary E. Bivins Foundation, […]
Christine Lagarde warned Hank Paulson to bail out Lehman Brothers
Telegraph.com.UK – Sources close to Mrs Lagarde said that she had called the US Treasury Secretary – a close personal friend – well before the ailing bank’s collapse imploring him to act, but he chose not to. Lehman Brothers’ demise […]
Big hedge funds suffer big losses in September
Reuters – Hedge funds made history in September but not the kind most managers want to remember. Among the biggest losers, as last month’s returns are slowly revealed to investors, are some of the $1.9 trillion hedge fund industry’s most […]
Trader Lands $300 Million To Stay Put At Fortress
Wall Street Journal – Eager to keep one of its key employees, publicly traded Fortress Investment Group LLC has lavished a $300 million share grant on one of its star traders, 38-year-old Adam Levinson. Mr. Levinson, who also is the […]
Hedge fund guru calls bottom of market. Well, sort of…
CityWire.co.uk- Punch-drunk investors have – perhaps a little predictably – interpreted the news as Paulson preparing to call the bottom of the market. And it is certainly an interesting development from the man widely considered to be the ‘greatest’ financial speculator since […]
SEC to probe Bear Stearns trading data
Reuters- Bear Stearns Cos plans to turn over documents to securities regulators showing that financial giants like Goldman Sachs Group, Citadel Investment Group and Paulson & Co cut their exposure to the securities firm before its collapse, the Wall Street […]
