Tag Archives: institutional-investment
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 […]
Alternative Investment Draft Directive ‘Needs Major Surgery’ – Paul Myners at AIMA Meeting
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Paul Myners, the UK Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at an Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) event this morning in London, said, “the UK is not in the business of blocking more stringent […]
Hedge funds clipped by short-selling ban
Daily Telegraph – As short-selling is banned to protect Britain’s banks, Gordon Rayner names the men who have made millions from the financial crisis As 70,000 employees of HBOS wonder which of them will still have jobs this time next […]
