Thursday, 11 December 2008

Worst Year Ever For Canyon Hedge Funds - FINalternatives



FINalternatives, NY - 8 hours ago
In fact, the $19 billion hedge fund, founded by Drexel Burnham Lambert veterans Joshua Friedman and Mitchell Julis, is having its worst year ever, ...

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Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (Update1) - Bloomberg

New York Magazine

Dreier May Have Also Stolen Client Funds, SEC Says (Update1)
Bloomberg - Dec 10, 2008
Dreier faces criminal and civil allegations that he cheated hedge funds out of more than $100 million. The US Securities and Exchange Commission added the ...
The Dreier Case: Where's All The Money? Forbes
New York lawyer charged with stealing millions from hedge funds Telegraph.co.uk
Big Time NYC Lawyer Accused of Scheming Hedge Funds HedgeCo.net
Wall Street Journal Blogs - Bloomberg
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Losses widen at McKay Securities (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
real estate investment trust McKay Securities saw its net asset value per share dive in the first half of its financial year, as the commercial property sector’s slump worsened.
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Rating the prospects



France contains many attractive reasons that have brought in British buyers down the years. Whether they are looking ...
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New mortgage access?
Those keen on investing in property may do so in two ways. One is for existing cash or assets to be liquidated and sp...
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New investment tactics for Cyprus?
Those who have been investing in Cyprus in recent years have been enjoying a number of advantageous circumstances. Th...
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How cuts may help French property
When it comes to buying French property, many people may have imagined that this week would bring good news.This, of ...
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France holds together



With the credit crunch decimating property prices in many countries, good news has sometimes been hard to find. But i...
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How cuts may help French property
When it comes to buying French property, many people may have imagined that this week would bring good news.This, of ...
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Tracking the way
Those investing in buy-to-let were given a boost earlier this week when housing minister Iain Wright gave a speech at...
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Bay Area, US hedge funds bleeding, one's gone - San Francisco Chronicle



San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 7 hours ago
If Copper River's death was singular, there are other Bay Area hedge funds in serious trouble, if not quite as fatal. Most notable is San Francisco's $50 ...

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STOCKS NEWS UK SMALL-housebuilders up as rate cut looms - Life Style Extra
Shares in housebuilders surge on the expectation that the Bank of England will cut interest rates to their lowest level for over 50 years later on Thursday. Last month, the Bank of ...
Source: www.lse.co.uk

Berkeley profit drops but cushioned by cash pile - MSN UK News
LONDON (Reuters) - housebuilder Berkeley Group Holdings reported a 12 percent drop in first-half pretax profit but said it was well positioned to cope with "unprecedented ...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Berkeley profit drops but cushioned by cash pile - MSN UK News



LONDON (Reuters) - housebuilder Berkeley Group Holdings reported a 12 percent drop in first-half pretax profit but said it was well positioned to cope with "unprecedented ...
Source: news.uk.msn.com

Och-Ziff Funds Said to Have Eliminated at Least 10 Jobs in Asia - Bloomberg

Och-Ziff Funds Said to Have Eliminated at Least 10 Jobs in Asia
Bloomberg - 10 hours ago
Citadel Investment Group LLC, the Chicago-based firm run by Kenneth Griffin, and New York-based Ramius LLC have also laid off staff in Asia as hedge funds ...
VIEW-One fifth of hedge funds may fail Reuters
Citadel Is On Top Of The World* DealBreaker.Com
Citadel Retreats in Asia After Earlier Expansion (Update3) Bloomberg
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Sticking up for landlords
Landlords have been on the wrong end of a lot of news in recent times, principally the claim that buy-to-let is a dea...
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Woman solicitor was 'lover lawyer and financial advisor' to drug dealer (Daily Telegraph)



A solicitor was "the lover lawyer and financial advisor" to a drug dealer who made half a million pounds from heroin and cocaine a jury was told.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Big Time NYC Lawyer Accused of Scheming Hedge Funds - HedgeCo.net

Canada.com

Big Time NYC Lawyer Accused of Scheming Hedge Funds
HedgeCo.net, FL - 9 hours ago
According to the prosecution, Dreier convinced hedge funds to purchase these notes by highlighting the discount they would receive due to the original ...
Arrested Lawyer Accused Of Defrauding Hedge Funds FINalternatives
How Did Hedge Funds Fall for It? New York Times Blogs
Dreier Charged With $113 Million Financial Fraud Forbes
Wall Street Journal - Hedge Fund Net
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Scots stick with radical development proposals - InsideHousing
The Scottish Government has stuck by its controversial plan to channel most of its housing cash through a handful of ‘lead developers’. Communities minister Stewart Maxwell has ...
Source: www.insidehousing.co.uk

STOCKS NEWS UK SMALL-housebuilders up as rate cut looms - Life Style Extra
Shares in housebuilders surge on the expectation that the Bank of England will cut interest rates to their lowest level for over 50 years later on Thursday. Last month, the Bank of ...
Source: www.lse.co.uk

Buy now? - InsideHousing



According to everything we’ve come to believe over that period, that ought to mean a rapid recovery in house prices. Interest rates are at their lowest since 1951 - what a time ...
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UPDATE 1-Dillard's shareholders demand access to records - Reuters

UPDATE 1-Dillard's shareholders demand access to records
Reuters - 18 hours ago
The hedge funds own around 5 percent of Dillard's class A stock. The Dillard family own most of the company's class B stock, which allows them to nominate ...
Dillard's Investors Press Further on Records Wall Street Journal
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Europe's turn?
The dramatic last few months in the sphere of economics and property has blown away all manner of perceptions and ass...
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