Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Briefs: Hedge funds enjoy rebound in Europe
San Antonio Express News – European hedge-fund managers are starting more funds and raising more money then ever before, getting past the troubles of early 2005, says EuroHedge Magazine. European fund managers started a record 330 new funds in 2005, […]
Bankers predict more, bigger deals
Charlotte Observer – The corporate mergers and acquisitions business has been so strong during the first two months of 2006 that investment bankers are predicting a record year for deals. The year has already brought Boston Scientific Corp.’s $27.2 billion […]
Investment Bankers Foresee Record Year For Deals
Hartford Courant – The corporate mergers-and-acquisitions business has been so strong during the first two months of 2006 that investment bankers are predicting a record year for deals. The year has already brought Boston Scientific Corp.’s $27.2 billion acquisition of […]
Charlemagne leads hedge funds to market
Financial Times – Charlemagne Capital, the emerging market and hedge fund management group, is expected to announce this week its intention to float on the Alternative Investment Market. The company, which has about $4bn (£2.3bn) under its control, is expected […]
Record hedge-fund launches in 2005
MarketWatch – A record number of hedge funds launched and liquidated in 2005, suggesting that the industry remains buoyant but increasingly competitive, Hedge Fund Research said Tuesday. HFR, which tracks hedge-fund performance, said that 2,073 funds started last year, while […]
Private eye to help search for hedge fund millions
Reuters – Investors, who funneled millions into an Atlanta hedge fund firm, will hire private detectives to help find a missing manager who has been accused of cheating clients out of $100 million ormore, a lawyer said on Tuesday. The […]
GMM hedge-fund head pleads guilty
San Diego Union Tribune – The head of a San Diego hedge-fund partnership that lost up to $60 million of investor funds pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit mail fraud infederal court in San Diego. Marvin […]
CLIMBING FOR CHARITY: HEDGE FUND PROFESSIONALS ATTEMPT MT. KILIMANJARO
BERMUDA, HAMILTON, March 2, 2006 – Robin Bedford, President of Dundee Leeds and Charles H. Dufresne, Jr., an attorney at Abbey Gardy, LLP are preparing to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, on March 12-17, in […]
Hedge funds for all?
San Bernardino County Sun – Currency trading used to be a strategy employed by only the wealthiest investors and hedge funds, but a growing number of mutual and exchange traded funds make itpossible for individuals to try it for themselves, […]
TechTeam to fight hedge fund
Investors Business Daily – TechTeam Global Inc. said Monday it would fight a hedge fund’s attempt to replace its board of directors, saying the move isn’t in the long-term interests of shareholders. Costa Brava Partnership III LP moved last week […]
Hedge-fund pros follow different notes
Newark Star Ledger – When he isn’t dealing with distressed assets, Timothy Wheeler rocks. A bankruptcy lawyer with Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, Wheeler is the lead singer for the Subscribers, a rock group comprised mostly of professionals in the hedge-fund […]
France probes British hedge fund
MarketWatch – French regulators are investigating trades in a portfolio managed by a founding partner at hedge-fund company GLG Partners LP, according to a media report Tuesday. The investigation is as part of a broader probe into whether several large […]