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CIC funnels fund investments via Blackstone, MS: report
Marketwatch – China’s sovereign wealth fund has selected Morgan Stanley and Blackstone Group LP to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in new investments, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The $200 billion China Investment Corp. has finalized an additional […]
Einhorn calls AAA rating a curse, shorts Moody’s
Marketwatch – David Einhorn, head of hedge-fund firm Greenlight Capital, called AAA credit ratings a curse and said he is betting against rating agency Moody’s, during a speech at a closely watched investment conference on Wednesday. Einhorn said that many […]
White House ponders: Are some hedge funds too big to fail?
<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> Marketwatch – When the $9.2 billion Connecticut hedge fund Amaranth Advisors collapsed in 2006, securities attorneys jumped all over each other to express gleefully how the markets absorbed […]
White House Inaction on Rules For Hedge Funds Is Criticized
Washington Post – The Bush administration’s decision to drop proposed money-laundering rules for hedge funds is "inexplicable, ill-timed and unwise," Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) said yesterday. Hedge funds, private investment pools whose investors are often wealthy individuals, have drawn […]
