U.S. hedge fund eyeing Centro stake: source
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SYDNEY/PHILADELPHIA  - Centro Properties Group , Australia's second high-profile victim of a global credit crunch, is attracting interest from U.S. hedge fund Citadel Investment Group, a source familiar with the situation said.
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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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Hedge funds are notoriously reticent in part because the government requires them to be. But some of them want to speak up.
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Bear Stearns Asset Management CEO  Richard Marin is taking a stronger role in managing its two  troubled hedge funds and tapped mortgage unit head Thomas  Marano to save one of the funds, two sources familiar with the  decision said.
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An hedge fund group is pressuring CNet for changes. Usually that means the investors think the company is undervalued and wants to push management to sell.
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WASHINGTON -- Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest source for home mortgage financing, said Wednesday that is is considering two placements of up to $4 billion in preferred stock to qualified institutional buyers.
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Hedge fund SAC Capital is planning to fight the proposed buyout of mining giant Phelps Dodge Corp.  by Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.  and seek a higher price, the New York Post reported on its Web site on Monday.
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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, and said a second fund that took greater risk is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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Bear Stearns Asset Management CEO Richard Marin is taking a stronger role in managing its two troubled hedge funds and tapped mortgage unit head Thomas Marano to save one of the funds, two sources familiar with the decision said.
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Ceridian Corp. , under pressure  from an activist hedge fund, agreed to be bought by private  equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners  and insurance  company Fidelity National Financial Inc.  for $5.3  billion, the business services company said on Wednesday.
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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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The hedge fund run by activist investor  William Ackman said on Monday it now owns a 9.6 percent stake  in Target Corp , adding the discount retailer to its  small list of closely watched investments.
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The hedge fund run by activist investor William Ackman said on Monday it now owns a 9.6 percent stake in Target Corp , adding the discount retailer to its small list of closely watched investments.
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Hedge fund SAC Capital has disclosed it has a more than 5 percent stake in mining giant Phelps Dodge Corp.  and wants to block Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s  proposal to buy the company, saying the price is too low, a regulatory filing said.
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The hedge fund Fortress Investment Group is said to be considering an initial public offering that could value the company from $5 billion to $7 billion.
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Merrill Lynch & Co  is in talks  with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds that  could lead to the sale of another big stake in the U.S. bank,  British newspaper The Observer reported, citing sources in  London and New York.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in talks  with the founding family of top Japanese consumer finance firm  Takefuji Corp. for a stake of over $2.74 billion, a source told  Reuters on Friday, heating up competition among foreign  investors to enter a $97 billion industry.