{"id":7650,"date":"2008-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"citigroup-throws-in-the-towel-on-old-lane-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/citigroup-throws-in-the-towel-on-old-lane-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup throws in the towel on Old Lane hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Only one year after Citigroup shelled out $800 million for Old Lane Partners, investors are looking for a way out of the troubled hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund&rsquo;s founder, Citigroup&rsquo;s CEO Vikram Pandit, is now forced to look at a restructuring or a complete closing of the fund, just days before he is set to make a presentation to investors convincing them he is the right man to lead the company.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are in the process of restructuring Old Lane. Its business and its people continue to be valuable to us,&rdquo; said Jon Diat, a Citigroup spokesman. &ldquo;We are confident that we can realize that value over time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In March, following a disappointing year resulting from the credit crisis, Old Lane informed investors that they may redeem their money due to a clause in the investment agreement being breached. <\/p>\n<p>The clause stated that if three of the fund&rsquo;s six managers left the fund, investors could start withdrawing their cash.&nbsp; This happened when Pandit, along with co-founders John Havens and Brian Leach left the hedge fund to pursue other positions within Citi.&nbsp; This past Friday, the bank announced that investors could completely withdraw from the fund by July 31<sup>st<\/sup>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In April 2008, substantially all unaffiliated investors had notified Old   Lane of their intention to redeem,&rdquo; Citi said in the filing.&nbsp; The rush for redemptions left the fund with only $1.5 billion in assets, less than a year after it had over $4.5 billion in AUM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/news\/04\/news\/01\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeconetworks.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeconetworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Only one year after Citigroup shelled out $800 million for Old Lane Partners, investors are looking for a way out of the troubled hedge fund. The fund&rsquo;s founder, Citigroup&rsquo;s CEO Vikram Pandit, is now forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","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=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}