Tag Archives: equity-fund
Seven hedge funds bet millions on Irish banks falling
Irish Times – Seven international hedge funds have bet hundreds of millions of euro that Irish bank stocks will continue to fall. Although it is normal stock market practice, since last Friday short-selling of the four Irish publicly quoted banks […]
US hedge fund Paulson bets big against UK banks
Reuters – John Paulson, a U.S. hedge fund manager who gained a superstar reputation with a big bet against the U.S. housing market, was shown holding a 1 billion pound ($1.9 billion) bet against UK banks as short sellers were […]
Attack of the acronyms
WA Today- Australia’s biggest life insurer and funds manager, AMP, was ducking for cover today. What are AMP’s holdings of CDOs, CLOs ABSs and CDSs? Not much of an answer to that one. "We are holding a number of these […]