MergerTalk: Hedge funds muscle in on bankruptcies
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The contentious Northwest Airlines Corp.  bankruptcy case is a new battleground in a larger war between hedge funds and distressed companies that will only widen, experts say.
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Record sums are pouring into hedge funds in spite of their weak performance, as many see managing a hedge fund as the most promising route to real riches.
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Two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge  funds that invested heavily in securities backed by subprime  mortgage loans are close to being shut down as a rescue plan is  falling apart, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Wednesday.
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Barclays claims Bear Stearns loaded one of its hedge funds with about $500 million in troubled assets just weeks before it and another of its fund collapsed.
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When the high-powered Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund imploded in 1998, two dozen of Wall Street's most powerful bankers and brokers assembled with the New York Federal Reserve governor to devise a $3.5 billion bailout plan to prevent a bout of panic selling in world markets.
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The Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund filed for bankruptcy protection today in New York amid mounting losses from subprime mortgage assets, court papers show.
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Investor's Business Daily - If bond mutual funds were an ice cream parfait, high-yield funds would be the cherry on top. But top junk-bond managers are changing their diet a bit.
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Hedge funds, faced with falling profits and fading opportunities, are pondering fresh ways to make money, with one new strategy involving trading a company's debt against its equity, analysts said.
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A court ruling expected in a Manhattan bankruptcy court could have significant implications for hedge funds domiciled in faraway places.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, but sources said a second fund is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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Two Bear Stearns hedge funds, worth more than $20 billion, teetered on collapse yesterday after absorbing major losses from investments in the subprime mortgage industry.
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Investing in distressed securities is likely to be a top-performing strategy in 2008, a survey of hedge fund managers released on Wednesday found.
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Bear Stearns Cos. may put up $1.6 billion to rescue one of its money losing hedge funds, half as much as it offered last week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
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U.S. financial regulators took a one-two  punch on Friday that might leave their efforts to regulate the  &#36;1.3 trillion hedge fund industry in shambles.
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HARTFORD -- A Connecticut hedge fund that bet heavily on the natural gas market lost almost $6 billion over the past month, partly because it sold other assets at a loss to stay afloat while its gas investments plummeted, the fund told investors in a letter.
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Hedge funds, faced with falling profits  and fading opportunities, are pondering fresh ways to make  money, with one new strategy involving trading a company's debt  against its equity, analysts said.
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A hedge fund believes the company can best serve shareholders by selling out.