Citadel Adds 4.4% In September (Finalternatives)
Ken Griffin‘s $24 billion Citadel gained 4.4% in September, easily outstripping the average hedge fund which fell 0.2% last month. The gains by Citadel’s main Kensington and Wellington funds put the firm’s 2014 returns up 15%, reports Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. Citadel’s Global Equities fund added 3.4% in September and is up 17% this year while tts Global Fixed Income fund returned 5.2% last month and is up 8% year to date.
San Francisco Hedge Fund Proposal Raises Conflict of Interest Questions (IBTimes)
This week, officials in San Francisco may vote on a proposal that could shift billions of dollars of the city’s pension portfolio from plain vanilla investments such as stocks and bonds into hedge funds that charge substantially higher management fees. As they mull that move, municipal pension overseers are drawing on the counsel of a company called Angeles Investment Advisors, one of a crop of consulting firms that has emerged across the country in recent years to aid municipalities in navigating the murky waters of managing money.
Low-key Canso makes a big splash in Postmedia bond deal (TheGlobeAndMail)
A low-key Canadian hedge fund with a nose for distressed bonds snuck up on the Postmedia deal, becoming a central player after the company realized one of its major bondholders was right in its backyard. That would be Toronto-based Canso Investment Counsel, a firm with about $10-billion of assets that is so low profile it did not even get a mention in the press release that unveiled the Postmedia purchase of 175 newspapers from Quebecor Inc. for $316-million. All that release said is one bondholder who already owned a huge chunk of debt would take down the entire $140-million of additional bonds that the transaction required.
A Hedge Fund Put Out A Massive Presentation About Why A Wireless Company Is Going To $0 (BusinessInsider)
Hedge fund Kerrisdale Capital says shares of data communications company Globalstar, Inc. (NYSEMKT:GSAT) are worth $0. In a lengthy research report, accompanied by a long slideshow presentation, Kerrisdale argues that Globalstar’s $4 billion valuation overstates the company’s value by, well, $4 billion. In its report, Kerrisdale writes that Globalstar is, “the fourth-largest player in the slow-growing mobile satellite services market, GSAT uses its constellation of low- Earth-orbit satellites to offer basic mobile voice and data services in remote areas of the planet…
On the environment, do as they say, not as they do (DetroitNews)
Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire-turned-environmentalist, just launched a multi-million dollar attack-ad blitz that takes political dishonesty to a whole new level. Not that honesty has ever been Steyer’s strong suit. While managing his hedge fund Farallon Capital, Steyer made a killing off the same fossil fuel industry he is now smearing as greedy and sinister. Steyer isn’t the first green crusader to secretly owe his wealth or way of life to fossil fuels. And given the stakes of our nation’s energy debate, Americans should stop taking these environmentalist hypocrites seriously.
