Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Wall Street Cuts Off Paramount: No Takers For $450 Million Movie
The Business Sheet- After spending nine months trying to close a $450-million film financing deal to offset the cost of 30 upcoming movies, Paramount has been forced to give up the chase. The studio was working with Deutsche Bank to […]
Hedge funds prove slow to adopt best-practice valuation
Wealth Bulletin- In January, 14 of the UK’s largest hedge funds, including Man Group, Brevan Howard and Gartmore, backed the Hedge Fund Working Group’s best-practice standards. These aim to improve governance and disclosure and to promote transparent and independent valuation. […]
Regulators probe stock manipulation by rumor
Los Angeles Times- Wall Street regulators are examining whether securities firms adequately police rumor-mongering used to manipulate stocks after shares of Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled last week. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s inspections unit; […]
SEC subpoenas over 50 hedge-fund advisers: report
Reuters- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent subpoenas to more than 50 hedge-fund advisers as it investigates whether individuals spread false rumors to manipulate shares in two Wall Street firms, The Wall Street Journal said, citing a […]
Government Rescue Plan Boost Fannie and Freddie Shares
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may get some help from the Fed in hopes of staving off a market implosion following a crippling credit crunch and a period of great stress in the financial […]
DanFonds Launches Frontier Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- A Copenhagen based Cayman fund, DanFonds, is trying a novel approach to the market for hedge funds by launching the ‘Frontier Markets Fund’, a hybrid between the public market hedge fund approach and the private equity […]
FRM Hires Award Winning Hedge Fund Manager
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Global fund of hedge funds (FOHF) group Financial Risk Management (‘FRM’), has hired Au King-lun, MH, PhD, as Chief Executive Officer of FRM Hong Kong. "The firm has long been known for its strength in serving […]
Playboys Hutch On the Park To Re-open With Hedge Funds Help
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Hugh Hefner has reportedly signed an agreement with Agilo, the London hedge fund that owns a Sports Cafe on Haymarket in London’s West End according to the TimesOnline. The new Playboy Club in the capital is […]
E&Y wins Caymans hedge fund row
The US Supreme Court has thrown out negligent audit claims made against Ernst & Young in the wake of a hedge fund collapsing. Liquidators sued the firm’s Cayman Islands unit, accusing E&Y of performing a below-par audit of the Beacon […]
SEC mounts attack on the rumor mill
Boston Globe- The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday said that it and other regulators would begin examining rumor-spreading intended to manipulate securities prices. The timing of the announcement, made before the markets opened in Asia, was meant to warn broker-dealers, […]