Tag Archives: hedge-fund-manager


Gaps in oversight let Nadel avoid scrutiny

Sarasota Herald-Tribune – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has hundreds of pages of complicated rules governing investment advisers. But the agency — under fire for failing to stop New York hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff and his alleged $50 […]

Authorities think money manager planned to vanish

Arlington Heights Daily Herald – A missing hedge fund manager who owed investors a $50 million payout told his wife in a note he felt guilty about mismanaging people’s money, and threatened to kill himself, according to a sheriff’s report […]

Florida Hedge Fund Manager Missing Along with Investors Cash

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Authorities are still searching for missing hedge fund manager and philanthropist Arthur Nadel after he vanished from his Sarasota home last week, while investors are searching for their $350 million they had tied up with him.   […]

Hedge Fund Peers Come to Merkin’s Defense

TheStreet.com – Two contemporaries rushed to the defense of hedge fund manager Ezra Merkin, who is reportedly being investigated by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo after his investors lost billions of dollars linked to disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff. […]

Hedge fund industry could become the investment banks of the future

Times Online – Mark Twain said that visiting a fortune-teller “was just as good as going to the opera, and the cost scarcely a trifle more — ergo, I will disguise myself and go again”. But he was visiting a […]

Eze’s Virtual Hedge Fund Hotel Suites

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager Eze Castle Integration has introduced a web version of its "hedge fund hotel" for small hedge funds with fewer than 10 people. The company introduced the fully managed physical suite in November […]

Directory of Commodity Exchange Traded Funds Launched by Energy Hedge Fund Center

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Energy Hedge Fund Center, an online community focused on energy and environmental alternative investments, has launched a Directory of Commodity-focused Exchange Traded Funds that will appeal to ordinary investors. The Directory lists Exchange Traded […]

Paulson’s Pellegrini Said to Resign to Start Own Hedge Fund

Bloomberg – Paolo Pellegrini, the hedge-fund manager who helped Paulson & Co. make more than $3 billion in 2007 on bets the U.S. housing bubble would burst, resigned to start his own fund, a person familiar with the matter said. […]

Rival Launches RRSP Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) – Cayman Island based hedge fund manager Rival Capital Management Inc., announced the launch of the Rival North American RRSP Growth Fund, an RRSP eligible fund that will invest in the current Rival North American Growth […]

Finvest Launches Private Equity Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – After being awarded $2.5 billion in allocation for investment in private equity, hedge fund manager Finvest Asset Management, announced the launch of a private equity initiative. Finvest is also separately dedicating $300 million to a […]

Blackstone to liquidate two hedge funds

Reuters – Blackstone Group LP said on Tuesday it plans to liquidate two hedge funds as a lack of outside investing amid tight credit markets will prevent them from getting big enough to be meaningful to the company. The private […]