Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

Independent – Man Group, the world’s largest quoted hedge fund manager, fuelled fears yesterday that some of its smaller competitors may be in serious trouble after revealing that some of its futures funds have made substantial losses this month. The […]

New York Times – Grumbling sounds are coming these days from stockholders of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s parent, Deutsche Börse, about hedge funds. The long-term plans laid by the Children’s Investment Fund, better known as TCI; Atticus Capital; and other […]

Street.Com – Wet Seal’s (WTSLA:Nasdaq – news – research – Cramer’s Take) bottom-line gains are being gobbled up by its hedge fund financiers. With the retailer’s first drop inmonthly same-store sales since December 2004 coming this month, minority shareholders might […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The popularity and high profile of hedge funds is prompting European governments to examine ways to curtail their rising power and to consider new rules for fund investors. The governments’ efforts are being championed by influential European […]

MSNBC – The recent distortions to equity prices that traders have created by adjusting their positions in derivatives based on market volatility should disappear in the next two to four weeks,Citigroup, the US bank, said on Tuesday. The bank said […]

Financial Times – Volatility is becoming an asset class in its own right. A range of structured derivative products, particularly those known as variance swaps, are now the preferred route for manyhedge fund managers and proprietary traders to make bets […]

Euro2day – Investors in some international equity markets were handed a partial reprieve on Tuesday as a clutch of markets rebounded from the sharp falls of recent days. European markets made a strong recovery, while India’s Sensitive Index rose 3.25 […]

Euro2day – In early 2005 Chris Hohn was the toast of the City of London. His hedge fund, TCI, led the successful revolt against Werner Seifert, the former Deutsche Börse boss with a penchant for shouting at shareholders. Today, TCI […]

Times Online – CRISPIN ODEY, one of the grandees of the London hedge fund world, said yesterday that the industry could be doomed, likening it to the disaster that was the Lloyd’s of London insurancemarket in the 1980s. Most hedge […]

FinFacts Ireland – Asian stocks continued falling on Tuesday and in Tokyo, the Nikkei-225 index closed 1.63% down, at 15,599.20 and the broader Topix index fell 2.3%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell after the lender forecast a 37% drop […]