Category Archives: HedgeCo News

Harbinger Capital Limits Year-End Redemptions on Largest Hedge Fund

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – New York-based Harbinger Capital Partners has capped year-end withdrawals from its largest hedge fund after investors moved to pull $3.5 billion of capital. The hedge fund, run by Philip Falcone, will only honor 60 to 70 […]

NYU Latest Victim in Madoff Debacle

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – New York University is the latest victim in Bernard Madoff’s web of lies, claiming it lost $24 million in a fund of fund that invested with the infamous Ponzi schemer.  According to a complaint filed Christmas […]

Cerberus Hedge Fund Caps Withdrawals After Loss

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus Capital Management has followed in the footsteps of many faltering hedge funds this year, limiting client redemptions in one of its funds after investors moved to withdrawal 16.5 percent of their capital, according […]

Hedge Funds in Talks to Purchase Failed Mortgage Lender IndyMac

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Several hedge fund firms led by J.C. Flowers & Co., are closing in on a deal to purchase the assets of IndyMac, the failed mortgage lender, as of Sunday. The group of firms, which also include […]

Morrison & Foerster Hire NY Hedge Fund Lawyer Among Others

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morrison & Foerster LLP is announced the election of ten new lawyers into their partnership, including specialists in venture capital, hedge funds, bio-technology, patents, corporate transactions and chapter 11 bankruptcy, among others. Their election is effective […]

Blackstone Makes Single Manager Hedge Fund Changes to Ensure Profitability

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Blackstone Group is making changes to the single manager hedge funds businesses within its Marketable Alternative Asset Management (MAAM) segment. Blackstone is consolidating its distressed securities fund onto a single operating platform and moving […]

More Investors Sue Hedge Funds for Ties to Madoff

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Investors in the hedge fund Fairfield Greenwich Group have sued the company after about $7.5 billion in potential losses stemming from ties to Bernard Madoff.  The investors claimed that Fairfield sustained “avoidable losses,” by not practicing […]

Hedge Funds Take Bullish Position On Gold

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In the last week leading up to today, (Tuesday) hedge funds and other "large speculators" took their largest bullish position (when compared with the number of bearish bets) since early August. Commercial traders such as […]

Some Investors Predicted the Madoff Debacle

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – As the investigation continues into what has turned out to be the largest fraud in history, more and more investors are coming forward who saw the red flags early, refusing to do business with Bernard Madoff. […]

NZARA Hedge Fund Return Index Surges

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Ernst and Young New Zealand Absolute Return index surged to a new high in November 2008, gaining +1.502% for the month, putting year-to-date performance at +17.597%, and year-on-year performance at +21.104%. As with October, it […]

HFR & CCN Report 693 Liquidated Hedge Funds this year

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Chicago-based information company Hedge Fund Research (HFR), said the number of hedge funds liquidated in the third quarter rose to 344, which is more than three times the 105 liquidations in the third quarter of 2007. […]

CSX Corp. Sue the Childrens Investment Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Transport company, CSX Corporation announced that it has joined in  a civil action brought by the plaintiff, shareholder Deborah Donoghue, in federal court in New York to recover so-called "short-swing" profits under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange […]