Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

Sify- Hedge funds must be allowed to invest in commodity markets. The Forward Contracts Regulations Act has to be amended quickly as the benefit will reach more sections of the community. The banks and the financial institutions must be allowed […]

Reuters – Commodities fund manager Tiberius is considering diversifying beyond trading futures contracts, and joining a small but expanding group of hedge funds spreading their wings into physicalmarkets. The Geneva-based energy and commodities hedge fund manager said it was looking […]

CNBC – In late breaking news Dylan Ratigan says Bear Stearns is facing a criminal probe over some of its hedge funds. According to CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino, the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn has begun examining the circumstances behind the […]

Reuters – HSBC Halbis Partners, the active fund management arm of HSBC Investments, has launched a global macro hedge fund and says distressed debt strategies will also offer opportunities forinvestors. Bill Maldonado, head of alternative investments at Halbis, told Reuters […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Thames River Multi Hedge fund plans to raise up to 100 million pounds innew assets, its second fundraising in a matter of months, because of investor demand for absolute return products. The 154 million pound fund of […]

AFP-The world’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., said Wednesday it had won approval from Mexico’s government to open banking centers in its Mexican stores. A spokesman for Wal-Mart de Mexico, Wilfred Castro, said the US retail giant was initially planning […]

Scotsman- Northern Rock shares rose almost 12 per cent after reports that hedge funds were moving in for a bid for the troubled bank. The mortgage lender, which was bailed out last month by the Bank of England, surged after […]

St. Petersburg Times – For the better part of two years, Trump Tower Tampa developers have promised that a financing deal was just around the corner. Now, at the 11th hour, after the condo projecthas been wracked by lawsuits and […]

Reuters UK- Britain, with its dependence on property speculation, consumer debt and the spoils of high finance, is looking very vulnerable to the global credit crunch. And as for Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and his bank’s interest rate […]

Reuters- Smaller hedge fund firms hard hit by the current tighter credit conditions may be bought by larger, more traditional fund houses or may simply fold, law firm Eversheds told Reuters. “There’s bound to be a shake-out of hedge funds […]

Reuters- The hedge fund and private equity industries have reached a near-term peak in their cycles after years of rampant growth, speakers at a Reuters Forum said on Thursday. “Private equity and hedge funds both have cycles, and I think […]