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’Hedge fund chiefs speak
Some of the world’s top-earning hedge fund managers told Congress on Thursday that they broadly agreed that largely unregulated financial vehicles ought to be subject to greater disclosure, though they warned of excessive regulation.
[Hedgies v Waxman] Choice quotes from the prepared testimony
John Paulson, who called for stiffer conditions on government funding in the TARP program, including the suspension of dividend payments on common stock until after TARP preferred shareholdings are repaid:
[Hedgies v Waxman] Paulson, Falcone and Soros head to the Hill
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by the formidable Henry Waxman, will today hold a hearing on hedge funds and the financial market.
According to preliminary reports, it promises to be a zinger.
John Paulson plans new fund
John Paulson, who notched up one of the single biggest profits in the history of the hedge fund industry last year by betting on a financial collapse, is planning a new fund to provide capital to cash-strapped banks,
John Paulson looks at cash-strapped banks
John Paulson, who made enormous profits – estimated by investors at more than $12bn – by shorting, or betting against, subprime mortgages, is planning a new fund to provide capital to cash-strapped banks.
Hedge fund chief warns of worse to come
John Paulson, president of Paulson & Co, the hedge fund manager which made some of the biggest profits from the global credit crisis, said mortgage-related losses for troubled financials could reach $1,300bn,