Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Key Republican wants hearing on hedge funds
Washington Post – A senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said on Monday he wants hearings on how to protect investors in hedge funds now that the $1.3 trillion industry has freed itselffrom regulation by the Securities and Exchange […]
Houston Exploration rejects hedge funds
Houston Chronicle – Houston Exploration has rejected a hedge funds’ offer to buy the company for $62 per share. In a written statement to Jana Partners, which owns 13 percent of the company’s shares, Chairman and CEO William Hargett said […]
Players sue NFL in hedge fund case
Rocky Mountain News – Steve Atwater, the former Denver Broncos safety, and others have accused the National Football League and its players association of endorsing a fraudulent hedge fund managerwithout adequate background checks. The football players said in a June […]
Speed of hedge funds bodes well for healing
International Herald Tribune – After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told. It probably will not be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that […]
Australian Hedge Fund Bets against US Dollar
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Antipodean Capital Management is a hedge fund started by a former senior foreign exchange strategist at ANZ Bank, Craig Ferguson isbetting on a 22-year high in the next 12 months for the Australian dollar. […]
Hedge Fund Inspires Deutsche Certificate
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Deutsche Bank has written a euro certificate on the QAM Global Equities Fund, a Singapore-based hedge fund advised by Quant Asset Management. In an interview with AsiaHedge one of the founders, Frank Holle said, […]
Some 450 Hedge Funds Throng Energy Bull Market
Bloomberg – Everywhere you look these days, people are scrambling for energy supplies. China is scouring the world, from the oil sands of Alberta to the oilfields of Iran. Morgan Stanley and other investment banks have spent hundreds of millions […]
SEC effort to oversee hedge funds cracked
Reuters – U.S. financial regulators took a one-two punch on Friday that might leave their efforts to regulate the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry in shambles. “The regulatory landscape that the SEC has so carefully cultivated is now seriously in […]
Eisenberg files for $120 million blank-check IPO –
MSNBC – Gregg Eisenberg is betting big that investors will want to bet on him. The former chairman and president of Maverick Tube Corp. is making a comeback with Boomerang Holdings Inc., a Chesterfield-based blank-check company formed to acquire one […]
Senate probes hedge fund ties with analysts – MSNBC
MSNBC – The Senate Judiciary Committee will on Tuesday hold a hearing into hedge funds and their use of independent analysts, an area under scrutiny following high-profile lawsuits by companies thathave been targeted by hedge fund short sellers. The issue […]
Lodsworth Global Emerging Market Debt Fund
London- Hydra Capital Management Ltd., a London-based specialist provider of Global Emerging Market Fixed Income strategies, announces the launch of a GlobalMacro Emerging Market Debt fund investing in external and local market debt and currency instruments of emerging market countries.Colm […]
Hydra Capital Management New Fund Launch:Lodsworth Global Emerging Market Debt Fund
London- Hydra Capital Management Ltd., a London-based specialist provider of Global Emerging Market Fixed Income strategies, announces the launch of a Global Macro Emerging Market Debt fund investingin external and local market debt and currency instruments of emerging market countries.Colm […]