Monthly Archives: June 2007

Reuters- U.S. hedge fund Third Point said on Thursday it plans an initial public offering in London to raise about 500 million euros (337 million pounds), bringing one of the most aggressive activistinvestors to Europe. Daniel Loeb, the firm’s chief […]

Reuters- Hedge funds are flouting one of the few U.S. disclosure regulations applying to them. But instead of punishing them, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may scrap one of the rules to make it more palatable for the funds, […]

Bloomberg- ABN Amro Holding NV, the biggest Dutch bank, expects to sell $500 million of commodities products to investors in Asia this year, about five times more than 2006, driven by demand frominsurance companies and money managers. The products will […]

Times Online- An influential politician, French senator Philippe Marini, has joined forces with rebel hedge funds in a campaign to stop Arcelor Mittal’s buyout of buyout of minority shareholders. Mr Marini has submitted a written question to the French finance […]

Every local TV news channel has some segment that helps some consumer in distress–someone wronged by a renegade dry cleaner who made a hole in a beloved cashmere sweater, or a pet owner who bought amutt instead of a pedigree […]

Individual investors who want something more than a plain-vanilla investing plan are increasingly trying out a new option: mutual funds that use hedging strategies. While a standard mutual fund looks for companies with good financial performance and waits for those […]

Although Citi decided this month to restructure its global fixed-income sales business, creating three hedge fund dedicated coverage groups, rivals have been left surprised it had not done so sooner. The increasing desire to sell securities to hedge funds, coupled […]

New York-  A group of hedge funds is telling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to be on the lookout for manipulation of bonds backed by subprime mortgages. Paulson & Co., a hedge fund based in New York, told the […]

Reuters- JP Morgan is recommending investors take advantage of the latest emerging markets sell-off to add exposure to the asset class, despite the risk of a possible interest rate rise by the U.S.Federal Reserve later this year. The bank argued […]

Wall Street Journal- Hedge funds, known for flexing their financial muscles around the globe but still largely shut out of China, hope the quickening pace of Beijing’s reformswill open new gateways into the world’s fourth-largest economy. Chinese officials remain suspicious […]