Christine Williamson
Christine Williamson is a senior reporter at sister publication Pensions & Investments with a focus on money management and hedge funds. She tweets at: @Williamson_PI
Christine Williamson is a senior reporter at sister publication Pensions & Investments with a focus on money management and hedge funds. She tweets at: @Williamson_PI
Institutional investors are examining every aspect of their fund-of-hedge-funds portfolios and the managers in charge of them in the wake of the performance debacle of 2008, liquidity problems and the seismic shock of Bernard L. Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.
Highly secretive Renaissance Technologies Corp., hit by performance problems and huge redemptions in its largest open hedge fund, may concede greater transparency in the strategy for large institutional investors.
Arthur J. Samberg, founder, chairman and CEO of hedge fund manager Pequot Capital Management, today told clients he will shutter the firm, close its core funds and spin out two funds into separate businesses, according to a client letter obtained by Crain's Pensions & Investments.
More than 100 investment managers and their placement agents have been subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo as part of his two-year investigation into alleged pay-to-play schemes involving the $122 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, Mr. Cuomo announced today.
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dubuque, Iowa, has filed a civil suit alleging breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust and unjust enrichment regarding losses from the order’s investment in an SSgA enhanced Dow Jones-AIG Commodities futures strategy.
More and more hedge fund managers are registering their funds of funds as a way to bolster their…
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