Feb 8 2010 | 7:27am ET
Halcyon Holding Group, which bought the “Terminator” rights two years ago with a $30 million loan from Pacificor, is set to auction off the asset today. The hedge fund plans to submit a creditors bid, based on its claim that Halcyon owes it $32 million; Halcyon counters that it owes only $4 million.
The rights have already attracted an offer from Lions Gate Entertainment, which bid $15 million and 5% of future revenues last month.
Feb 8 2010 | 12:18pm ET
Cantor Fitzgerald has announced the creation of a new alternative investment and advisory business—Cantor Investment Advisors—which will be led by Stephen Ardizzoni.
Feb 8 2010 | 9:01am ET
In January, most market indices took a beating, and hedge funds were no exception.
Feb 8 2010 | 8:35am ET
Alternative asset management firm Prologue Capital has named Noah Estrin as a senior portfolio manager focused on trading U.S. Agency mortgages.
Feb 8 2010 | 7:34am ET
TCW Group has moved to quell investor discontent after it called its fired chief investment officer a drug user and pornography addict by cutting fees.
Feb 8 2010 | 7:33am ET
Sprott estimates that gold, currently sitting at about $1,067 per ounce, will soar 40% to $1,500 by the end of this year.
Feb 8 2010 | 7:31am ET
A federal bankruptcy judge in Philadelphia denied a bid by the owners of the bankrupt Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News to learn how much “the Steering Group of Prepetition Secured Lenders” paid for their roughly $179 million in debt.
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Contributor James Bibbings investigates whether a new proposed rule by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would mean the end of retail forex transactions as we know them.
Feb 8 2010 | 12:01am ET
By Ron Suber -- Not long ago, pre-2008, hedge fund managers held relative power over investors. Because demand for their products was so high across a range of strategies, they controlled the terms, often with little transparency and very favorable gating provisions.
Ron Suber Feb 6 2010 | 8:08am ET
Tax havens have nowhere to hide now that America has turned on them, says Christopher Silvester.