Hedge Fund Link Fest

Link Fest

Hedge Fund Link Fest

In case you have been reading up on bank failures and bail outs all week and missed much of the news on the hedge fund industry here is a link fest out to many of the events which recently occurred in the industry:

Citadel, TPG-Axon Stumble Toward Worst Year in Hedge-Fund Swoon
Bloomberg - USA
19, the worst first nine months of a year since Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. started tracking the data in 1990. Investment gains are being ...
Worth Interviews Hedge Fund Guru David Einhorn
MarketWatch - USA
In the case of Lehman Brothers, one of those short sellers is David Einhorn, the head of hedge fund Greenlight Capital. Last May Einhorn stated publicly ...
Fitch Places 22 Tranches from 5 Hedge Fund CFOs on Rating Watch ...
MarketWatch - USA
Hedge fund CFOs invest, either directly or indirectly, in underlying hedge fund LP interests, which may be classified as less liquid. ...
Failures could be exposed, says hedge fund chief
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... of wrongdoing when they examine the records of some of the financial companies that have failed, a leading short selling hedge fund manager claimed. ...
Pickens Hedge Funds Down Double-Digits
FINalternatives - New York,NY,USA
T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman and hedge fund manager, is perhaps better known today as a leading advocate for US energy independence. ...
Pickens hedge fund suffers loss, OSU projects could be affected
KSWO - Lawton,OK,USA
Stillwater_A recent report says the hedge fund of oilman Boone Pickens has lost $1 billion. The downturn could affect athletic-related projects at Oklahoma ...
Powe to wind up €330m fund
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By James Mackintosh Rory Powe, one of London's best-known fund managers, is closing his flagship hedge fund after poor performance prompted investors to ...
UK hedge funds shouldn't sue the FSA
Internatioonal Financial Law Review - London,UK
Hedge funds that are planning to sue the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) over last week's short selling rules are wasting their time. ...
SEC to investigate over 24 hedge funds movement: Report
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
PTI / New York September 25, 2008, 13:22 IST The US regulator Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered more than two dozen hedge funds to hand over
London Turns on Hedge Funds in Hunt for Culprit as Banks Slump
Bloomberg - USA
The demonization of hedge funds isn't healthy and more and more will think of going elsewhere.'' Some in the financial industry say stricter oversight is ...
Hedge Funds In The Microwave
Forbes - NY,USA
I then argued that the next leg of this unraveling would be hedge funds and private equity firms and their reckless leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ...
Hedge Funds Wrestle With Short-Sale Ban
Wall Street Journal - USA
That would be continued bad news for most hedge funds. "There are very, very few short-only funds on Wall Street, so the ban mainly removed long/short funds ...
SEC Presses Hedge Funds
Wall Street Journal - USA
By KARA SCANNELL WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered more than two dozen hedge funds to turn over trading information as it ramps ...
UK Hedge Funds Say Data Show Low Short-Sale Volume
Wall Street Journal - USA
The UK media and politicians, as well as financial-industry executives, have blamed hedge funds for using short-selling tactics to drive down the price of ...
Seven hedge funds bet millions on Irish banks falling
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
SEVEN INTERNATIONAL hedge funds have bet hundreds of millions of euro that Irish bank stocks will continue to fall. Although it is normal stock market ...
Man in the middle: now hedge funds seek protection
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By Andrew Hill Peter Clarke of Man Group is usually in the vanguard of those who believe top executives of listed companies should engage with short sellers ...
US hedge funds rush to revamp strategies
Financial Times - London,England,UK
US hedge funds are scrambling to remodel their trading strategies as they explore ways to regain the potential benefits taken away from them by new rules ...
Man Group Says Shorting Ban Won't Hurt Flagship Fund (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
24 (Bloomberg) -- Man Group Plc, the largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, said it doesn't expect to be hurt by the UK's ban on short selling of ...
Credit crisis diary: Spurned: the naked hedge fund manager
Independent - London,England,UK
One of the women was a hedge-fund manager, Maria Kristina Dominguez, who sued Vibe and Combs for $3m (£1.6m). However, the judge said the picture was ...
Former hedge fund manager commited fraud-court
Reuters - USA
BOSTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Former hedge fund manager Michael Lauer, who stole money from Morgan Stanley and other investors to buy a plane and race car, ...
SEC advances pair of hedge fund cases
Forbes - NY,USA
WealthWise and Forrest recommended to more than 60 clients that they invest about $40 million in Apex Equity Options Fund, a hedge fund managed by Thompson ...
US SEC charges adviser over hedge fund conflict
Reuters - USA
... investment adviser with fraud for failing to tell investors it had a financial interest in recommending a hedge fund with subprime housing investments. ...
SEC Charges California Investment Adviser with Committing Fraud ...
Lawfuel (press release) - Wellington,New Zealand
... conflict of interest when recommending that their clients invest in a hedge fund that made undisclosed subprime and other high-risk investments. ...
Hedge fund bets nearly £1bn against UK banks
ifaonline.co.uk - London,UK
By Hysni Kaso Billionaire US hedge fund manager John Paulson has made a near £1bn bet against four British banking stocks. The FSA’s short-selling ban has ...
Hedge fund community defiant despite shorting ban
Reuters - USA
By Laurence Fletcher LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - London's hedge fund managers remain in an upbeat and defiant mood, despite widespread vilification and last ...
Topless Hedge Fund Manager Suit Dismissed
FINalternatives - New York,NY,USA
If hedge fund managers don’t want to see pictures of their bare breasts published in a national magazine, they had better keep their shirts on at parties. ...
Fears over hedge fund takeover hurt Inmarsat
guardian.co.uk - UK
Phillip Falcone, the managing director of hedge fund Harbinger Capital, was last week labelled the Midas of Misery by tabloid newspapers for supposedly ...
Pickens funds down about $1 billion this year: report
Reuters - USA
(Reuters) - Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens' hedge funds have lost around $1 billion this year, including $270 million of personal losses, ...
Hedge funds should give up short-sale ban cloak
MarketWatch - USA
... didn't short the stuffing out of their now-deceased rivals and as if they didn't abet other hedge funds from doing so via their prime brokerage arms. ...
Short-selling bans raise the ire of hedge funds
Globe and Mail - Canada
Mr. Sprott, well known for shorting financial stocks in his hedge funds, anticipated the crisis in the US financial sector, but added he is "shocked" at the ...
Man Asks for Protection From Short-Selling Hedge Funds, FT Says
Bloomberg - USA
... fears that rival hedge funds are targeting it as an alternative to now protected banks and insurers, the Financial Times reported, citing no one. ...
Asset-Backeds Lure Hedge Funds
Wall Street Journal - USA
By DAVID WALKER Some hedge funds are starting to see increasing value in asset-backed securities as some investors believe financial markets are now nearing ...
Hedge fund presses Telecom
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
By JENNY KEOWN - The Independent | Wednesday, 24 September 2008 PHONE RINGING: US hedge fund Elliot International has made a renewed aggressive call for ...
Hedge fund problems still loom
Reuters - USA
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss - Analysis BOSTON (Reuters) - So far the hedge fund industry appears to be weathering the financial crisis better than many banks or ...
US hedge fund emerges as UK bank short seller
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By James Mackintosh in London John Paulson, the New York-based hedge fund manager who made billions of dollars predicting the subprime implosion, ...
Hedge Fund Paulson Discloses Short Sales on UK Banks
Wall Street Journal - USA
By KEVIN KINGSBURY Hedge-fund giant Paulson & Co. became one of the first firms to disclose short positions in compliance with new UK regulations, ...
Deutsche Bank to launch sharia hedge fund platform
guardian.co.uk - UK
By Cecilia Valente LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG's prime brokerage business is preparing to launch a sharia-compliant hedge fund platform ...
European Parliament wants hedge fund rules
International Herald Tribune - France
AP BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Parliament called Tuesday for strict new EU rules governing high-risk private equity and hedge funds, even though top ...
First bank short-seller breaks cover
guardian.co.uk - UK
Fortelus Capital today became the first hedge fund to admit short selling a financial company. Following the crackdown announced late last week, ..
Crisis to spur big Asia hedge fund shake-out
Reuters - USA
By Jeffrey Hodgson and Saeed Azhar - Analysis HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's hedge fund industry, one of the world's worst performers even before ...
US hedge fund gives Tories £40k to fight Welsh marginal held by Labour
WalesOnline - United Kingdom
A HEDGE fund with its headquarters in New York has donated £40000 to a local Conservative Association in rural Wales. The donation is entirely legal as it ...
UK hedge fund takes on Vedanta over rejig
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
MUMBAI: The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), an activist hedge fund, is reliably learnt to be planning legal action against Anil Agarwalowned Vedanta ...
Hedge funds suffer mass redemptions
Independent - London,England,UK
One hedge fund expert pointed to The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter (HFI) as how he judges the state of the industry. The HFI was set up online in the wake of ...
Hedge Fund Group Urges SEC to Revise Short-Selling Restrictions
Bloomberg - USA
22 (Bloomberg) -- The US hedge-fund industry's biggest lobbying group urged regulators to revise new rules that crack down on short selling, ...
Hedge funds plan to sue FSA over short-selling ban
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The backlash follows a week in which the multi-billion pound hedge fund industry has been plunged into crisis. Prime brokers in London estimated that 35 per ...
In defence of the herd of greedy pigs
Times Online - UK
at the founder of a hedge fund who had taken a short position in HBOS. A Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman weighed in: “The hedge fund wolf packs must ...
Hedge fund group asks US to amend short-sale rule
Reuters - USA
BOSTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A US hedge fund trade association said on Monday that it has asked US financial regulators to amend a new rule on short-selling, ...
Lehman Sale to Barclays Challenged by Hedge Fund (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
22 (Bloomberg) -- Bay Harbour Management LC, a hedge fund that invests in insolvent and distressed companies, challenged a court order approving the sale of ...
Hedge fund to challenge Lehman sale to Barclays
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hedge fund that specializes in distressed investments has filed a notice of appeal in the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEHMQ. ...
Hedge fund to challenge Lehman sale to Barclays
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A hedge fund that specializes in distressed investments has filed a notice of appeal in the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc ...
Four hedge fund hitmen of the apocalypse riding high on 'bad' press
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
There is nothing like a bit of good publicity to drum up business, and last week hedge fund managers linked to the short-selling of Lehman Brothers and HBOS ...
Hedge funds must wither, too
This is Money - UK
These are tough times for hedge funds. Earlier this year when the credit crunch showed no sign of easing, one industry insider predicted that between half ...
Wild markets bring turmoil to hedge funds
Boston Globe - United States
By Landon Thomas Jr. LONDON - Hedge funds usually thrive when markets turn volatile. But even these fast-money investors are struggling to cope with the ...
Hedge Funds Fail To Block Barclays-Lehman Deal
FINalternatives - New York,NY,USA
A trio of hedge funds have lost their bid to block the sale of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings’ North American investment banking group to Barclays. ...
Few Hedge Funds Are Earning Performance Fees
Wall Street Journal - USA
By DAVID WALKER Just one in 10 hedge funds is currently receiving performance fees from their funds, raising questions about their financing model's ...
Hedge funds spend big part of fees on middle and back office
Hedge Funds Review Magazine - London,England,UK
Hedge funds spend 19% of revenue on operations, according to a survey by KPMG on behalf of PCE Investors. One out of 10 managers does not cover their costs ...
Not all hedge funds will suffer
Business Spectator - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
There are hedge funds and hedge funds, which is why the ban on short selling will have a varied impact across the industry. It will almost certainly pull ...
Hedge funds scrutinise costs
Financial Times - London,England,UK
A survey of London-based small and medium-sized hedge funds carried out by KPMG and PCE, an infrastructure provider, showed average costs amounted to almost ...
Hedge funds are scapegoats as long-only managers panic
Financial News - London,England,UK
It has become fashionable to blame hedge funds for the implosion of the global financial sector, on the argument they regularly go short on stocks in crisis ...
MEPs demand unprecedented openness from hedge funds
guardian.co.uk - UK
MEPs will call tomorrow for EU legislation to force private equity groups and hedge funds to disclose unprecedented amounts of information about their ...
Secretive Industry of Hedge Funds Must Answer for Financial Crisis
ITNews - Roma,Italy
Unite, the UK's largest trade union, has called on hedge funds to own up about their secretive practices. Unite is demanding that the industry, ...
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