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...Only his fellow hedge fund investor George Soros comes close to having helped launch so many key players....
...News round-up WhatsApp hack led to targeting of 100 activists (FT) General Motors warns of $2.9bn blow from US factory strike (FT) UBS becomes first foreign IPO sponsor on China’s Star (FT) Digital Realty...
...Under pressure from Senvest Management, a New York hedge fund, Colony last year slashed the management fees it collects from Northstar Realty Europe, a publicly traded real estate investment trust....
...His thesis was that the industry was changing as it drew in more money from private equity firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and the like....
...The company has been targeted by the New York hedge fund Senvest Management over Northstar Realty Europe, a publicly traded real estate investment trust from which Colony collects management fees....
...Senvest Management, a New York-based hedge fund, has written to the board of directors of Northstar Realty Europe Corp claiming the company has suffered from high management fees and should be liquidated...
...Blackstone Group, Starwood Capital, the Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are among the biggest borrowers on GSE commercial loans...
...Falling prices helped make one-fund deals more manageable....
...Stephanie Wissink, an analyst at Jefferies, argues that if a bankruptcy is imminent, she expects Toys R Us to consider a sale or divestiture of its own brand assets to fund its obligations....
...strategies in their mutual funds....
...They now have support from shareholders representing 31.6 per cent of Songbird’s free float, having received letters of intent from EMS Capital, Madison International Realty and Third Avenue Management....
...Orchard builds on the growth of Lending Club, now preparing to list on the NYSE, in winning acceptance for the idea of using online marketplace to originate and fund loans....
...Others looking at a listing include units of investment fund Ellington Management; Fundamental REO, whose fund received a large investment from Goldman Sachs; Waypoint Homes Realty Trust; American Homes...
...They include Ellington Management, Fundamental REO, whose fund received a large investment from Goldman Sachs and Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Property Trust, analysts have said....
...American Homes picked up a $600m investment from the Alaska Permanent Fund last year, a $45bn fund that invests royalties the state collects from oil companies....
...Shares in Silver Bay Realty Trust have risen 10.5 per cent since it launched its IPO late last year....
...The debt used to fund the deal, and the collapse of the US property market, has since hobbled the company....
...The group’s first fund, European Realty Income I, recorded an internal rate of return of 10.15 per cent a year net of fees since launch in 2003 to the end of September 2011, according to data from Forum....
...Let’s consider how well the International Monetary Fund did on predicting the current toxic mess in Egypt....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...The hedge fund’s motion to intervene was eventually denied by the court, with Judge Alvin K....
...The US private equity group, which already owns Americold Realty Trust – a rival frozen food storage company – has a call option to acquire the remaining 51 per cent in Versacold....
...However, Vornado is a listed real estate fund and its partners private property investors. Blackstone has the right to top any rival bids....
...Founded in 1990, the group collects taxes from local businesses to fund trash collection, street cleaning and security....
...However, they said an offer for Hammerson from Vornado Realty Trust, a US Reit, could not be ruled out, nor could a move from the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund....
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