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Blackstone Cancels Plan for Asian Event-Driven Fund
Bloomberg – Blackstone Group LP, the world’s biggest buyout company, canceled a plan to start a hedge fund that initially aimed to invest as much as $1 billion in Asian companies affected by events such as mergers and reorganizations. Blackstone […]
Integrated changes tack with deal to sell hedge funds
Reuters – Integrated Asset Management said on Wednesday it is repositioning as a pure play brokerage business after agreeing to sell a 51 percent stake in its French fund of hedge funds business. The firm, listed on London’s AIM market, […]
Integrated changes tack with deal to sell hedge funds
Reuters – Integrated Asset Management said on Wednesday it is repositioning as a pure play brokerage business after agreeing to sell a 51 percent stake in its French fund of hedge funds business. The firm, listed on London’s AIM market, […]
Hedge Funds Find Arb Opportunity in SPACs
Street.Com – In a fact sheet about the fund, which engages in several arbitrage strategies, AQR outlined plans to take advantage of a lack of liquidity in the "thinly traded" SPAC market. A spokesman for AQR says the firm is […]
UBP Makes Offer to Madoff Victims
New York Times Blogs – Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privée, one of the largest European hedge-fund investors, offered Thursday to buy back $700 million of its clients’ Bernard L. Madoff-related investments at half what they originally paid. The bank, […]
Goldman says partners hit by margin calls
Reuters – Goldman Sachs Group Inc said several partners must cover margin calls triggered by the depressed value of Goldman stock and many of the firm’s hedge funds, but the bank denied it is lending money to its executives. "Partners […]
Partner exits hedge fund firm NewSmith Capital
Reuters – NewSmith Capital Partners, one of the hedge fund firms to appear before last month’s Treasury Select Committee into the banking crisis, told Reuters on Thursday partner Jeremy Silewicz had left the firm. Silewicz, who joined NewSmith in March […]
U.S. accuses three in insider trading scheme
Reuters – A hedge fund manager, a brokerage trader and a financial adviser were charged on Thursday with insider trading in the stock of supermarket chain Albertsons Inc, reaping total profits of about $7.5 million, according to court documents. The […]
Deutsche Bank Says Had No Losses on Two Hedge Funds
Bloomberg – Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, said it suffered no losses from its U.S. hedge funds CQ Capital and Distressed Opportunities. The Frankfurt-based company invested no capital in the hedge funds, which are for institutional asset management clients, […]
RPT-EXCLUSIVE-Hedge fund firm Magnetar cuts London jobs
Reuters – Multibillion dollar hedge fund firm Magnetar Capital has shut its London risk arbitrage desk and cut seven jobs, the firm told Reuters on Monday, as the industry goes through its biggest crisis. A spokesman said four traders and […]
