{"id":9100,"date":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tontine-to-shut-down-two-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/tontine-to-shut-down-two-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Tontine to Shut Down Two Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Two hedge funds run by famed portfolio manager Jeffrey Gendell are being closed because of heavy losses suffered this year.&nbsp; Both Tontine Partners LP and Tontine Capital Partners LP are liquidating assets, although no time table has been given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Greenwich-based Tontine Associates, which manages over $11 billion through their four hedge funds, reached their decision after the two funds lost more than two-thirds of their value this year.&nbsp; Tontine Partners was down 65 percent for the year through September September 30<sup>th<\/sup>, while Tontine Capital Partners plunged over 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&ldquo;The combination of falling commodity prices, massive anticipated hedge-fund redemptions and the seizing up of the credit markets caused an enormous dislocation in our portfolios,&#8221; Gendell told clients last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The hedge funds will be liquidated in an orderly fashion, in order to maximize shareholder returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tontine Associates will continue to offer two other hedge funds; the Tontine Financial Partners LP and the Tontine-25 Fund, both run by Gendell.&nbsp; Before the recent credit crisis, all of the firm&rsquo;s hedge funds were posting admirable returns of almost 40 percent annually since inception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hedge funds as a whole have not been faring too well as of late, with research by Hedge Fund Index showing losses of over 15 percent overall this year.&nbsp; The Tontine hedge funds are just the latest in a string of closures stemming from massive hits.&nbsp; Big names like Drake Management, Highland Capital and Ospraie have all closed funds this year.&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 target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/news\/10\/news\/10\/news\/03\/\/\">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. <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>,  <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Two hedge funds run by famed portfolio manager Jeffrey Gendell are being closed because of heavy losses suffered this year.&nbsp; Both Tontine Partners LP and Tontine Capital Partners LP are liquidating assets, although no time table [&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":[1425,3672,3674,110,3281,3673,229,1605,999,230,3671,2308,258,1089],"class_list":["post-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-base-metals","tag-china-construction-bank-ccb","tag-customer-securities","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-dumps","tag-dwight-anderson","tag-eton-park","tag-general-electric-co","tag-golf-term","tag-institutional-marketing","tag-jeffrey-gendell","tag-qvt-financial","tag-tremont-hedge-fund-index","tag-wig-maker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}