New York Commits to Private Equity, Hedge Funds
FINalternatives- The $154.5 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund last month made commitments to a trio of hedge fund and private equity managers. The CRF committed €150 million (US$233...
View ArticleEx-Merrill Banker Kim Abandons Plans for Hedge Fund
Bloomberg – Dow Kim, the former head of trading and investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co., dropped plans to start a hedge fund after investors backed out, according to two people with knowledge...
View ArticleChristofferson Robb hedge fund to sell Thanet windfarm in Kent
Times Online – The Christofferson Robb hedge fund is in talks to sell one of Britain’s largest proposed offshore wind farms less than a year after it bought the project. Utilities and financial buyers...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley, Goldman change lending systems
Boston Globe – Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are responding to the credit crisis with a system that uses the market’s view of their own creditworthiness as a basis for lending decisions, the...
View ArticleHedge Funds At Risk
Forbes – The hedge fund sector has to date weathered market volitality better than the banking sector, since no large bellwether hedge fund has yet gone bankrupt. Nonetheless, hedge funds are expecting...
View ArticleNew York Commits to Private Equity, Hedge Funds
FINalternatives- The $154.5 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund last month made commitments to a trio of hedge fund and private equity managers. The CRF committed €150 million (US$233...
View ArticleEx-Merrill Banker Kim Abandons Plans for Hedge Fund
Bloomberg – Dow Kim, the former head of trading and investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co., dropped plans to start a hedge fund after investors backed out, according to two people with knowledge...
View ArticleChristofferson Robb hedge fund to sell Thanet windfarm in Kent
Times Online – The Christofferson Robb hedge fund is in talks to sell one of Britain’s largest proposed offshore wind farms less than a year after it bought the project. Utilities and financial buyers...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley, Goldman change lending systems
Boston Globe – Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are responding to the credit crisis with a system that uses the market’s view of their own creditworthiness as a basis for lending decisions, the...
View ArticleHedge Funds At Risk
Forbes – The hedge fund sector has to date weathered market volitality better than the banking sector, since no large bellwether hedge fund has yet gone bankrupt. Nonetheless, hedge funds are expecting...
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