Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Ogier Advises on the World’s Largest Ever Secondaries Fund
HedgeCo.net – Ogier, a leading Guernsey law firm, has advised on the establishment of another notable funds transaction. Roger Le Tissier, along with Bryon Rees and Rabie Abas, acted as Guernsey legal advisers to Coller Investment Management Limited, the leading […]
Hedge Fund Investors of Tommorow Compete
HedgeCo.net – Over 2,000 post-secondary students acted as hedge fund managers for the InvestYoung National University Stock Market Competition which ran from October 16, 2006 to March 9, 2007.Approximately 20,000 trades were executed on over 2,800 symbols across all major […]
Watchdog fears hedge funds behind takeover talk
Stockhouse Canada – The Financial Services Authority has launched a probe into suspicious share price movements involving leading British companies rumoured to be takeover targets. Officials fear that hedge funds or other investors may be spreading rumours purely to extract […]
British Hedge Funds Back Up TCI In Dutch Bank Attack
HedgeCo.net – ABN Amro Holding NV said last week it was in preliminary discussions with Barclays about creating a company worth more than $160 billion, this comes after pressure from activist hedgefund TCI asking to split up of the Dutch […]
Rivals to Bid in Hedge Fund Driven Dutch Bank Sale
HedgeCo.net – The Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Spanish bank Grupo Santander Central Hispano of Madrid are combining their efforts to counter bid Barclays in the hedge fund driven sale of Dutch bank ABN. ABN Amro Holding was in […]
CBB Sets Up Hedge Fund Regulations
HedgeCo.net – The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) is finalizing new regulations that they hope will open up the development of a regional industry of hedge funds, derivatives and other alternative investment instruments. Requirements for the registration of such higher […]
The Running of the Hedgehogs
New York Magazine – Not so long ago, the talk about hedge funds was all about their moneyâ€â€some guy you’d never heard of buying an $80 million piece of art or a $25 millionteardown in Greenwich, Connecticut, or paying himself […]
Hedge fund tactics trickle down to everyday investors
Greenwich Time –Aggressive and secretive, hedge funds employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid of risk. Now, some of those strategies are trickling down to investments used by average investors. The hedge funds’ […]
Has Corn Hit Its Peak?
Business Week — Corn prices had to take a breather at some point. After an eye-popping ascent in 2006, prices for the yellow grain fell on Mar. 30 after a highly anticipated Agriculture Dept. report predicted that farmers would plant […]
Alea Group Agrees to Hedge Fund Takeover
HedgeCo.net – Alternative asset manager Fortress Investment Group has announced plans to buy up re-insurance company Alea Group Holdings for £162 million. ($319.6 million) “The independent directors are pleased to recommend the acquisition, which results from the strategy that management […]
A hedge fund superstar
(Fortune Magazine) — On North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, on the Magnificent Mile, sits one of the city’s tallest and swankiest residential buildings. The most notable feature of the structure, a seven-year-old art deco-ish number called the Park Tower, is […]
Predicting the next big hedge fund IPO
(Fortune Magazine) — On the night before Fortress Investment Group became the first hedge fund to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, Wesley Edens and the other four principals celebrated in a manner that befits the firm’s intentionally low-key […]