Tag Archives: hedge fund
Charles Schwab and Hedge Fund Founder Ken Fisher Recipients of Tiburon’s Inaugural CEO Summit Awards
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Ken Fisher, Founder and CEO of Fisher Investments will be honored along with Charles Schwab as recipients of Tiburon’s Inaugural CEO Summit Awards, recognizing their contributions to “Focusing on Customer Needs” and “Challenging Conventional Wisdom.” “Never […]
Former Och-Ziff, Ivory Senior Asia Managers Start Hedge Fund
Bloomberg – Raaj Shah, an ex-partner of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, co-founded a hedge fund last month trading under-researched and mispriced Asian securities affected by events such as mergers, tax changes and forced selling. The almost $50 million Matchpoint […]
Rogers Investment Adds Staff for Private Equity Fund
Bloomberg – Rogers Investment Advisors Y.K., a Tokyo-based hedge-fund advisory firm, said it hired Rory Kennedy, Yuka Watanabe and Masayo Fukushima as it prepares to start its second fund investing in Asia. New York-based Wolver Hill, advised by Rogers Investment, […]
U.K. Church Is Unlikely Defender of Hedge Funds
WSJ – The Church of England has emerged as an unlikely defender of the hedge-fund industry against the prospect of new regulations from the European Union. Only last year, the Archbishop of York was calling hedge funds “bank robbers” for […]
The mystery investor who is turning the tin market on its head
Telegraph – A single investor – thought to be a hedge fund – is sitting on thousands of tonnes of tin in warehouses across London. According to traders almost the entire stocks of tin on the London Metals Exchange (LME) […]
FRM Seeds Asia Focused Hedge Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Global fund of hedge funds group, Financial Risk Management and its seeding arm, (FCA), has entered into a strategic relationship with an Asian hedge fund expected to launch at the beginning of December with between $50 […]
Hedge funds in Alameda? Oh my!
SF Gate – Apparently, hedge funds are so toxic in Alameda that just throwing the word around is enough to qualify as in depth criticism of the Alameda Point Revitalization initiative. The question at Alameda Point is whether or not […]
Hedge-fund firm to create 50 jobs in Sligo
Belfast Telegraph – A company that provides administration services to the hedge-fund industry has announced plans to create 50 new jobs in Sligo. Equinoxe AIS is expanding its Irish operations and setting up a new asset-servicing operation which will be […]
Toscafund halves Stake in key investment Aberdeen Asset Management
Hedge Tracker – Toscafund, the activist hedge fund run by Martin Hughes, has sold half of its stake in Aberdeen Asset Management to Japanese bank Mitsubishi. According to an article from the Telegraph, Toscafund’s assets have fallen in half since […]
Paolo Pellegrini, Formerly of John Paulson’s Hedge Fund on Bloomberg
ForexHound – I admit I had not heard of this fellow until I saw this interview on Zerohedge, but apparently this is the key brain behind the massive bet against subprime mortgages that made John Paulson both famous and one […]
Former board chair, whose hedge fund lost $1.5 billion, returns to board, will oversee endowment
The Mac Weekly – Larson resigned from the board in August 2007 after the sale of his hedge fund, which had been one of the most successful in the country. Sowood Capital Management was an early, high-profile casualty of the […]
London hedge funds talk the walk over Swiss move
Reuters – A hedge fund exodus from London to Switzerland in the face of higher taxes and tougher EU rules is unlikely to occur this side of a British general election, although the industry pretender remains ready to pounce. Eyeing […]
