{"id":5911,"date":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"citigroup-in-talks-over-hedge-fund-buy-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/citigroup-in-talks-over-hedge-fund-buy-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup In Talks Over $600m Hedge Fund Buy Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.net &#8211; Citigroup has been in talks with year-old hedge fund Old Lane, with a plan to spend $600m on the acquisition of the hedge fund. At an estimated 45% gross margin on $150 million inrevenue, the hedge fund could clear $67.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Morgan Stanley money manager, Vikram Pandit, founder of Old Lane Management has heavily invested in Indian securities, real estate and infrastructure projects. Citigroup would add about $4 billionin assets under management in the deal, and would make Pandit chief executive of its alternative investments unit.<\/p>\n<p>Launched early last year, Old Lane has between $150 million and $160 million in revenue, based on a 2% management fee and 20% share of any profit formula. In its first full year of business the hedgefund returned around 10% to investors.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative investments unit is the smallest of Citigroup&#8217;s four main businesses, with about 875 employees. It has $49.2 billion of private equity, hedge fund, real estate and other assets,including $10.7 billion of Citigroup&#8217;s own money.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  Alex Akesson<br \/>  Contributing Writer<br \/>  HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Editor@hedgeco.net\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\">Editor@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">    HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"..\/\" onclick=    \"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!  <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">      <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>,      <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=      \"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a>    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.net &#8211; Citigroup has been in talks with year-old hedge fund Old Lane, with a plan to spend $600m on the acquisition of the hedge fund. At an estimated 45% gross margin on $150 million inrevenue, the hedge fund could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}