Tag Archives: six-years
George Soros snaps up GLG hedge fund star Robert Donald
Times Online – GLG Partners, the London-based hedge fund, is on the point of losing a star fund manager this weekend in a situation that mirrors the high-profile departure of another top manager, Greg Coffey, last year. Robert Donald, who […]
MassMutual unit told to return funds from Madoff
Boston Globe – The trustee in the bankruptcy case of swindler Bernard L. Madoff has told a hedge fund business owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to return money that it received from Madoff over the past six years. […]
Big Madoff Investors Targeted
Financial Times – The trustee charged with tracking down money for victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50bn Ponzi scheme will target big investors – such as hedge funds – that pulled "substantial amounts" of "false profits" out of the broker’s […]
GMP hedge fund makes solid debut
Globe and Mail – GMP Securities enjoyed a solid debut with its new and much-scrutinized hedge fund. GMP Diversified Alpha Fund, a multi-strategy fund launched last year by the investment dealer, published its first set of performance numbers Thursday as […]
Airlines try to hedge against soaring fuel costs
Daily Herald- The computer screen on Scott Topping’s desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures. They tracked the price of oil futures for the […]
Citi Special Situations Team To Found Distressed Debt Hedge Fund
FINalternatives- Another pair of Citigroup fixed-income executives is to set up its own hedge fund shop. Jeff Jacob and John Humphrey, who run the global special situations group they established at Citi four years ago, will leave the firm in […]
