Tag Archives: redemptions
Sparx to Miss March 2011 Asset Target on Market Rout
Bloomberg – Sparx Group Co., Asia’s biggest hedge-fund manager, will likely miss its asset management target of 5 trillion yen ($57 billion) by March 2011 because of redemptions and losses amid the global market rout. The firm has cut costs to […]
Fidelity Launches Indian Fund of Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Fidelity International is launching the Fidelity Wealth Builder Fund through it’s Indian asset management arm, the new fund is an open ended fund of funds scheme offering asset allocation options with three plans. The investment […]
Wealthy wary of putting new money in hedge funds
Reuters – Millionaires who long put money with hedge funds are now skittish about adding fresh cash after these loosely regulated portfolios posted record losses last year, a top industry executive said on Thursday. "We have probably seen the worst […]
Biggest Listed Hedge Fund to Sue over Madoff Exposure
CNBC – Shares in Man Group, the world’s biggest listed hedge fund firm, slid on Wednesday after it said funds under management fell 21 percent and that it would sue over its exposure to the Madoff scandal. Man said its […]
Hedge Funds Rally in December, Post Record Losses on the Year
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Although hedge funds finished up 2008 with some of the worst numbers to date, they showed some signs of promise in December. According to the latest research by the Hennessee Group LLC, a New York-based advisor […]
Commercial property rents collapse in London hedge fund areas
The Independent – Rents for plush offices in Mayfair and St James’s plunged almost 30 per cent last year, hammered by the declining fortunes of many of their hedge funds tenants. The commercial property agency NB Real Estate has […]
Steel Partners Seeks to Convert Biggest Fund to Public Company
Bloomberg – Activist investor Warren Lichtenstein is seeking to convert his largest hedge fund into a publicly traded partnership after clients sought to withdraw 38 percent of their money. The $1.2 billion Steel Partners II Fund lost 39 percent last […]
Bank Safdie Dodges Madoff Loss, Predicts More Hedge Fund Rules
Bloomberg – Banque Safdie SA, the Geneva-based wealth manager that withdrew money invested with Bernard Madoff three years before his alleged Ponzi scheme unraveled, said the scandal will mean more hedge fund regulation. “What Madoff has done is highlight the […]
Tate & Lyle hurt by rumours of hedge fund share sale
Financial Times – The London market’s new year bounce continued into a fifth session, but Tate & Lyle missed the trend. Tate lost 8.5 per cent to 386¼p amid speculation that Harbinger, its second-biggest shareholder, might have to sell to […]
Hedge Funds Will Be Ruined by Withdrawal Limits:
Bloomberg – Looking for a new definition of a hedge fund? How about an organization that takes 20 percent of the profits on your money in the good times, then refuses to let you have it back when the weather […]
Candace Bushnell Hates Hedge Funds
Forbes – It’s been foul weather for hedge-heads. Redemptions are rampant, performance is drooping, the Securities and Exchange Commission briefly banned short-selling, and Congress summoned them to do some ‘splaining. But the really bad stuff is yet to come. Hedge […]