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State money went to two additional hedge funds
Newark Star-Ledger – Managers of New Jersey’s embattled pension fund, criticized by lawmakers for bailing out a struggling BlackRock hedge fund in October, secretly gave two other hedge funds the same deal, records from the state investment council show. The […]
Satellite Halts Hedge Fund Withdrawals, Fires 30 After Losses
Bloomberg – Satellite Asset Management LP, founded by former employees of billionaire George Soros, stopped client withdrawals from its three largest hedge funds and eliminated more than 30 jobs after losses reduced the firm’s assets to about $4 billion this […]
ARE Opportunity Fund Launch
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Lee Hetfield has joined ARE Asset Management LLC, a distressed credit and distressed real estate asset management company in Florida, as Portfolio Manager. Hetfield reports that as of May 30, 2008, ARE Asset Management launched […]
New Hedge Fund Launches Total Record $19.5 Billion in First Half
New York, July 8, 2008 — The Absolute Return New Funds Survey, published in the July/August issue of Absolute Return magazine, shows that new hedge fund launches this year in the Americas totaled $19.5 billion, with the top five funds […]
