Category Archives: HedgeCo News
ICI Offers Alternative to Pickens Plan
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – A national program known as the Intelligent Community Initiative (ICI) is offering an alternative restructuring operation using interconnected client-server databases and online training, resulting, the company says, in self-sustaining financial communities which are not as […]
California Hedge Fund Manager Charged with “Porfolio Pumping”
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The Securities and Exchange Commission charged San Francisco-based MedCap Management & Research LLC and its principal Charles Frederick Toney, Jr. with defrauding investors via “portfolio pumping.” “Fund investors relied on MMR and Toney to abide by […]
Andrew Lahde’s Farewell Letter
Today I write not to gloat. Given the pain that nearly everyone is experiencing, that would beentirely inappropriate. Nor am I writing to make further predictions, as most of my forecasts inprevious letters have unfolded or are in the process […]
Citadel Hedge Fund Down for the Year
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The largest hedge fund run by Citadel Investment Group has fallen 30 percent this year stemming from losses tied to convertible bonds. The $10 billion Kensington Global Strategies Fund has been hit hard by the credit […]
GlobeOp Performance Remains Strong
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge Fund provider GlobeOp Financial Services S.A. published its Interim Management Statement covering the period since 30 June 2008. As a group, GlobeOp’s clients appear to have out-performed the industry. "I am pleased to report […]
Hedge Fund Performance for the Third-Quarter Lowest Since 2003
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morningstar, Inc. reported that hedge funds reported the worst losses in the Morningstar Hedge Fund Index’s history, which began in January 2003. In September, the Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund index dropped 7.87%, more than double […]
Harbinger Hedge May Be Looking to Rev Up Leap Management
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital might be looking to make some strategic changes to another management team. They are expected to hold talks with Leap Wireless International, in which they hold a substantial 14.8 percent stake […]
Edge Launches New Alternative Investment Site
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund advisor Edge Capital Partners, LLC has launched a new website (www.edgecappartners.com) highlighting the firm’s offerings in the areas of asset allocation strategies, benchmarked investment options, corporate mergers and acquisitions and finance strategies, wealth […]
Overstock Settles After Gradient Apologises
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Overstock.com Inc. announced it has settled all claims against Gradient Analytics and its principals and officers named as defendants in Overstock’s defamation case filed in Marin County, California. Overstock.com chairman and CEO, Patrick Byrne said, […]
Petters Files for Bankruptcy, Hedge Fund Seeks Answers
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Petters Group Worldwide has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after feds launched a probe into an alleged $3 billion scam that was said to be orchestrated by the founder. The subsidiary company under investigation is […]
Oversight Weakness in the Banking System Seen by an Obscure Breton Trader
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In the October 20, 2008, issue of The New Yorker, in “The Omen", James B. Stewart uses police and psychological reports to tell the story of how the financial trader Jérôme Kerviel caused the French […]