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Hedge funds taking notice of Napster
BloggingStocks- With the plunge in the equities markets, there are certainly some compelling opportunities. Just look at Napster Inc., an online music operator. The company has $69.8 million in the bank and a market cap of $66.4 million. Yes, Wall […]
Blackstone Risks Hedge Funds’ Return as LBO Lending Evaporates
Bloomberg- When Blackstone Group LP, the world’s biggest buyout firm, was pursuing the takeover of the Weather Channel cable network earlier this month with General Electric Co. and Bain Capital LLC, Wall Street balked at providing financing. So the New […]
Defrauded fund investors sue Goldman
International Herald Tribune- Samuel Israel 3rd bilked his investors out of $250 million, but they are hoping to recoup some of their money from one of Wall Street’s deepest pockets: Goldman Sachs. Bayou’s creditors were taking aim at Goldman even before […]
Perella Weinberg Hedge Fund Gains 24% on Distressed Investments
Bloomberg- Perella Weinberg Partners’ Xerion hedge fund rose 24 percent this year, helped by wagers that the value of investment-grade bonds of financial-services firms would fall, according to a letter sent to investors. The $837 million fund, which invests in […]
Canberra drags its heels as the SEC tackles the problem
The Australian- The SEC’s decision to take a hard line on the illegal practice of naked short-selling is a band-aid attempt to fix a problem that is plaguing most stock markets in various guises, but at least it is having […]
Wall Street’s woes escalate ahead of earnings wave
Yahoo News- Investors can’t seem to catch a break — Wall Street again starts a week with oil prices at their highest levels yet, and banks poised to reveal that they remain on shaky footing. None of the troubles that […]
Hedge fund puts freeze on withdrawals
Investment News – Investors in Sandelman Partners LP’s $3.2 billion multistrategy hedge fund will not be able to make withdrawals due to a restructuring of the fund, The Wall Street Journal reported. The announcement came after 20% of stakeholders in […]
Info War: Turning The Regulators Back Against The Hedge Funds
DealBreaker.Com- If your memory stretches past last summer, you might recall that before the current debacle settled on Wall Street there was a lot of sound and fury raised about hedge funds. The rise of hedge funds was said to […]
Asian Funds Increase Use of Multiple Prime Brokers, Survey Says
Bloomberg- Asian hedge funds are increasing their use of multiple prime brokers after the U.S. subprime mortgage market collapse heightened the risk of relying on a single investment bank for brokerage services, an AsiaHedge survey found. Hedge funds that are […]
Hedge funds turn lives into a game
Taipei Times- Two years there was a music festival at Knebworth, in central Britain, that was very different. At “Hedgestock” 4,000 hedge fund managers and investors paid US$1,000 a ticket for a weekend of rock’n’roll, champagne, laser clay pigeon shooting […]
JPMorgan Marathon Embrace Begins Dimon Lure of Lost Hedge Funds
Bloomberg- A year after Andrew Rabinowitz yanked his hedge fund’s cash from Bear Stearns Cos. because of concern the Wall Street firm wouldn’t make good on its trades, he’s ready to return. For Rabinowitz’s New York-based Marathon Asset Management LLC, […]
