Hedge fund PSQUARED placed £20m bet on Boohoo’s shares falling, and will already be sitting on a profit By Jamie Nimmo For The Mail On Sunday Published: 14:48 BST, 12 July 2020 | Updated: 14:56 BST, 12 July 2020 A hedge fund has launched an attack on shares in Boohoo – the day after the fast … Read more
London born hedge fund boss Sanjay Shah is suspected of swindling Danish tax authorities by setting up sham trades A London-born hedge fund boss accused of masterminding a £1.5billion tax fraud is facing one of the most expensive trials in British legal history. Sanjay Shah is suspected of devising an elaborate scheme to swindle Danish … Read more
Hedge funds bet on £500m cash call at shopping centre landlord Hammerson due to coronavirus crisis Hammerson may tap investors for up to £500m to cope with coronavirus crisis A major deal to offload seven retail parks fell through as buyer Orion pulled out Hammerson will get to keep the £21m deposit paid by the bidder … Read more
World’s most powerful hedge fund and founder of Hargreaves Lansdown both tip markets to crash again this year By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 18 April 2020 The founder of Britain’s biggest stockbroker and the world’s most powerful hedge fund have tipped markets … Read more
Exchange-traded fund specialist Will Rhind and his team launched GraniteShares in the US in 2016, and set it with a mandate to shake up the commodity investment space. It has very quickly grown into something much more than this, with £632million of assets under management and products listed in New York and London. ‘The great … Read more
Clinical: Igor Tulchinsky, with ex-wife Valentina Some of the world’s most powerful hedge funds have placed bets against British businesses for the first time in years, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Billionaire speculators who have launched bids to cash in on the stock market turmoil and looming recession in the UK include an investment … Read more
It wasn’t the first time Crispin Odey has been accused of crying wolf. Over the past five years, Britain’s best-known hedge fund boss has repeatedly predicted a major stock market crash. At one stage, the 61-year-old multi-millionaire seemed so convinced of impending doom that he even faced suggestions (which he dismissed as ‘absolute rubbish’) that … Read more
STOCK MARKET WATCHLIST: Premier Oil’s date in court with hedge fund attacker By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 10:11 GMT, 15 March 2020 Edinburgh is the venue this week for the showdown between Premier Oil and its hedge fund attacker. Hong Kong hedge fund Asia Research … Read more
Millionaire hedge fund bosses Sir Paul Marshall and Ian Wace make £50m on coronavirus crash By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 Millionaire hedge fund bosses Sir Paul Marshall and Ian Wace have made more than £50million from the collapse of leisure stocks … Read more
Hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey bets on Sirius bidding war as shareholders approve £405m Anglo American takeover By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 4 March 2020 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 4 March 2020 The hedge fund managed by millionaire Crispin Odey is talking up the prospect of a bidding war breaking … Read more