Tag Archives: insurance-companies


Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

June 4, 2009 : Permalink

Financial Standard – Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers […]

Dummys View of the Global Crisis

March 9, 2009 : Permalink

Given the string of problems created by hedge funds, derivatives, investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds, mortgage securities and hairy bank loans over these few years, it is becoming increasingly apparent that high flying investment managers and financial whiz kids […]

Hedge funds target insurers

February 24, 2009 : Permalink

The Australian – Some of the City of London’s shrewdest hedge fund investors, who made millions of pounds betting that UK bank shares would fall, have turned their guns on insurers amid heightened worry about the financial strength of the […]

Barclays Sues Chicago Hedge Fund Over Ties to Petters

November 24, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Barclays Bank Plc has sued Chicago-based Ritchie Capital Management and the hedge fund’s principal Thane Ritchie, accusing them of concealing a $150 million investment in the controversial and now collapsed Petters Group Worldwide LLC. According to […]

Eight Arrested in London Insider Trading Scheme

July 30, 2008 : Permalink

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Eight people were arrested yesterday in London on suspicions of insider trading.     The city of London police and about 40 Financial Services Authority officials targeted workers at UBS and JPMorgan Cazenove, in what they are […]

Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Probed by SEC

June 13, 2008 : Permalink

The New York Sun – Suspicions that illegal insider trading may have preceded the year’s biggest and most publicized corporate takeover attempt — Microsoft’s hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo — have prompted the Securities & Exchange Commission to commence […]