Tag Archives: global-investors


Speedo-Wearing Bankers Descend on Perfect Beach

May 4, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – An Indonesian beach isn’t the first place you’d look for clues about the trajectory of Asia’s economies. Here on the island of Bali, there are myriad ones. They are bankers, many of American and European origin. The financiers […]

Bennelong SGI to Start Hedge Fund to Invest in Global Equities

March 19, 2009 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Bennelong Funds Management, an Australian fund manager with A$400 million ($271 million), will start a second hedge fund to ride through the financial crisis as it seeks to more than double funds under management. Melbourne-based Bennelong wants to […]

“Tiger cub” raises $80 million for long-only hedge fund

February 20, 2009 : Permalink

Greenwich Time – The Greenwich-based Viking hedge fund group run by Andreas Halvorsen started a new fund to focus on buying stocks after selling them short became more risky. Viking Long Fund LP began trading last month after initially raising […]

Speculators and Our Food: E-I-E-I-O!

January 8, 2009 : Permalink

The Austin Chronicle – Oh, this is just dandy! Hedge-fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators – the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse – have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. E-I-E-I-O! Speculators have […]

Investors Dip Their Toes Back Into Stocks

December 23, 2008 : Permalink

Wall Street & Technology – Global investors boosted their equity holdings for the second month running in December and cut bonds, thanks to signs of stabilising stock markets and tumbling government bond yields, Reuters polls showed on Monday. Surveys of […]

Lone Pine, Traxis Lead Funds Betting on India Stocks Recovery

August 13, 2008 : Permalink

Bloomberg – Lone Pine Capital LLC, run by Stephen Mandel, and Traxis Partners LLC are among 56 overseas funds that registered to buy shares in India in July, the most in six months, betting on a recovery in stocks. Helios […]