{"id":2897,"date":"2004-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"soros-fund-management-may-begin-reinsurance-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2004\/soros-fund-management-may-begin-reinsurance-business.html","title":{"rendered":"Soros Fund Management may begin reinsurance business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Soros Fund Management, operated by billionaire investor George Soros, has teamed up with HBK Investments to start the new Glacier Re, the new business is aimedat underwriting business risks. According to the report, Soros owns 90% of the company, the rest of the company is owned by U.K.-based reinsurance broker Benfield Group, and catastrophe reinsurancebusiness Ace Tempest Re.<\/p>\n<p>  Maurice Greenberg, chief executive of American International Group AIG said Hedge funds are expected to become a significant source of capital.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd Reinsurance represents a new and interesting source  for hedge fund returns, particularly in light of current difficulties in the equity markets. Reinsurance business is uncorrelated with equity and debt markets and may help provide alternative  sources of income.<\/p>\n<p>  According to published reports, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdNephila Capital and BNP Paribas&#8217; CooperNeff began investing in and trading catastrophe bonds in the late 1990s\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd. Also Ken Griffin&#8217;s $10 billion, Chicago-based hedge  fund firm Citadel Investment Group has set up a dedicated reinsurance unit. These new trends suggest that hedge funds are looking to get more active in the Reinsurance business. Both Soros Fund  Management and Citadel and HBK declined to make statements.<\/p>\n<p>  Paul Oranika<br \/>  Editor-in-Chief<br \/>  HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: Editor@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>  HedgeCo.Net is the most popular hedge fund database and community in the world. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Soros Fund Management, operated by billionaire investor George Soros, has teamed up with HBK Investments to start the new Glacier Re, the new business is aimedat underwriting business risks. According to the report, Soros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}