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Ex-Lehman Banker Filippi Raises $35 Million for Commodity Fund

Bloomberg – Edward Filippi, previously with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., raised $35 million for a hedge fund investing in energy, metals and agricultural derivatives. The Ground Zero Strategic Commodities Fund may begin trading in the first quarter of next year, […]

Hedge Funds Available In Sweden For The First Time

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Swedish state pension platform, PPM, is including Salus Alpha funds in their premium pension portfolio with immediate effect. The Salus Alpha funds that were chosen are UCITS III compliant, and meet the strict requirements […]

8th Circuit Rejects Hedge Fund’s Debt Collection Practice

Law.com – The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first circuit in the country to rebuff efforts by a hedge fund to call in a debt based on an alleged technical violation of bond terms in a […]

Getting Harder To Hedge

New York Post – Despite headlines about hedge funds that got decimated after making complicated bets on mortgages or energy, the most basic investment strategy of picking which stocks will rise and which will fall – known as long-short equity […]

Cayman Hedge Fund Buy-Out and Launch of New Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) – The Directors of Cayman based Camelot Global Investments announced a management buy-out of their hedge fund, in cooperation with Merlin Global Enterprise. Camelot will join Arkanar Financial Holdings, with the head office being relocated to […]

Hedge Fund SageCrest Files For Bankruptcy

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In an effort to head off a forced asset sale, Windmill Management’s SageCrest Finance and SageCrest II filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after its assets fell sharply. The hedge fund filed at U.S. Bankruptcy Court […]

Ospraie hedge fund loses $1bn on misplaced commodities bets

Ospraie Management, the US hedge fund led by Dwight Anderson, has seen about $1bn (€678m) in value being wiped out of Ospraie Fund, its biggest, over the last 12 months amid misplaced bets on commodities, according to a report in […]