Tag Archives: selling-shares
Icahn Puts Another $250 Million Into His Fund
New York Times – The billionaire financier Carl C. Icahn put another $250 million into his hedge fund at the beginning of the year after suffering further losses in the fourth quarter on investments in Motorola and Yahoo, according to […]
The List: The Crisis’s Big Winners
The New York-based hedge fund manager reportedly made a record $3.7 billion in 2007. In 2008, his $7 billion Advantage Plus fund returned an incredible 37.6 percent. Another smaller fund he manages returned nearly 590 percent last year, thought to […]
Short selling ban upsets hedge funds
ninemsn – The corporations watchdog has extended a ban on covered short selling in the local equities market by at least another month because market conditions continue to be difficult. But a group representing hedge funds, which are high volume […]
Hedge funds slam ban extension
Financial Standard – The hedge fund industry has condemned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) decision to extend the ban on short selling on non-financial stocks, declaring it will have "severe and immutable long-term effects". ASIC extended the ban […]
