Tag Archives: treasury select committee


Row over Salmond adviser’s hedge fund in the Caymans

March 2, 2009 : Permalink

Times Online – Alex Salmond is under renewed pressure over his links with Sir George Mathewson, the former HBOS chairman, after it emerged that Sir George’s investment group’s hedge fund is running businesses from the Cayman Islands. John McFall, the […]

Harvard’s alumni fail to dazzle in recession

February 15, 2009 : Permalink

Telegraph.co.uk – When Andy Hornby, the former chief executive of HBOS, was asked by the Treasury Select Committee to detail his banking qualifications he couldn’t. Like his fellow bankers, Sir Fred Goodwin, Sir Tom McKillop and Lord Stevenson, being questioned […]

Partner exits hedge fund firm NewSmith Capital

February 13, 2009 : Permalink

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 […]

Treasury Select Committee MPs accuse funds of cashing in on misery

January 28, 2009 : Permalink

Times Online – Hedge funds were accused by MPs yesterday of gambling against the taxpayer when they bet that the share prices of British banks would fall. Appearing before the Treasury Select Committee, four leading hedge fund managers were told […]

Treasury Select Committee turns the spotlight on hedge funds

January 27, 2009 : Permalink

Times Online – They are the financial world’s most secretive and unaccountable men — but also among its wealthiest and most influential. Today, four of the sharpest speculators in the hedge fund industry will be thrust into the spotlight when […]

Has the moment for greater UK hedge fund regulation passed?

January 27, 2009 : Permalink

Reuters – Tuesday’s grilling of UK hedge fund executives is likely to create plenty of noise but produce little in the way of new rules. While media-shy TCI founder Chris Hohn and others will face tough questions from the Treasury Select Committee […]

Hedge fund chiefs face grilling on role in crisis

January 26, 2009 : Permalink

guardian.co.uk – Secretive hedge fund barons, blamed by many for undermining Britain’s financial stability, will be unmasked on Tuesday when they are forced into the public spotlight by the powerful Treasury select committee. As suggestions grow that hedge funds have […]