Monthly Archives: July 2009
J.Michael Miller To Develop Bandon’s Intermediary Market, Flagship Hedge Fund Anniversary
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Alternative investment management company, Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has hired J. Michael Miller as Managing Director responsible for the development and management of the financial intermediary market. Miller has over 25 years of experience in […]
K+S, Potash Sellers Sink as Rival’s India Contract Roils Market
Bloomberg – K+S AG, Europe’s largest maker of potash for fertilizers, and competitor Israel Chemicals Ltd. fell in local trading after a Russian rival’s contract in India prompted speculation that prices will come under pressure. The drop mirrors declines at […]
EU assembly flexes muscles, fast reforms may be hard
Reuters AlertNet – The newly elected European parliament starts its five-year term on Tuesday in a combative mood which could slow the passage of laws intended to fight Europe’s worst economic crisis in decades. At its first session since an […]
Winton to Start Japan Fund, Hire H.K. Staff in Asian Expansion
Winton Capital Management Ltd., the U.K. hedge fund with $12 billion in assets, will start a new fund in Japan and hire staff in Hong Kong as it expands when rivals such as Citadel Investment Group LLC retreat from Asia. […]
Ogier’s ‘Evolution of Offshore Investment Funds’ Seminar
PR Inside – “Hedge fund managers naturally seek international as well as national investors. To continue to do so in today’s evolving regulatory environment, managers are likely to need to establish operations in the EU for EU domiciled investors, in […]
Platypus Capital Closes Hedge Funds in ‘Post-Madoff World’
Bloomberg – Platypus Capital Management is liquidating its long-short Asian and Australian hedge funds, citing difficulties in a “post-Madoff world.” The Sydney-based firm, with about $42 million in assets, will return funds to investors, saying it didn’t have a “viable […]
SEC Freezes Assets of Illinois-based Hedge Fund Manager Who Was $2 Billion Feeder to Petters Ponzi Scheme
Kansas City infoZine – The SEC’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, alleges that Gregory Bell and Lancelot Management LLC invested more than $2 billion in hedge funds assets with Petters and pocketed millions of […]
Hedge funds for Average Joes?
ABC News – Irish-American author J.P. Donleavy, in his wonderful book The Unexpurgated Code, details the difficulties of social climbing in England if you are not to the manor born. People who try to invest in hedge funds will find […]
Oil Little Changed on Concern Demand Recovery Yet to Occur
Bloomberg – Crude oil was little changed near $60 a barrel in New York amid concerns the global recovery has yet to take root, postponing a rebound in demand for fuel. Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators reduced their net-long […]
Investor in Petters’ alleged scheme charged
Kare11.com – An Illinois hedge fund manager who claimed to be the biggest victim of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters’ alleged Ponzi scheme was actually a participant in it, the Securities and Exchange Commission says. Greg Bell and his company, Lancelot […]
ALTIN Hedge Fund Group Goes For Full Disclosure
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – ALTIN, the London and Swiss-listed fund of hedge funds, has released a full disclosure of its underlying investments and weightings. ALTIN has adopted a position of total transparency, and holds one of the world’s longest […]
Boris Johnson is right: the EU’s hedge fund rules will destroy the City
Telegraph.co.uk – The City is staring into the abyss. If the proposed EU directive on hedge funds goes through, London will go the way of Bruges, Venice and Amsterdam: a once dominant financial entrepôt sidelined by more virile cities. This, […]