SAC Capital Advisors UK's Massimo Amati, Stanislas de Caumont and Robert Harris have agreed to join rival hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management. Other portfolio managers and analysts are departing SAC after the firm decided to shut down its London office.
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US bank group challenges Volcker rule in court
The American Bankers Association, a representative of majority of the community banks in the US, said the provision on banning investments in collateralized debt obligations will result to the lenders losing $600 million in the process.
Hedge funds seen to snatch risky opportunities US and foreign banks now avoid
While US and foreign banks do away with risky investments like municipal bonds, hedge funds had taken advantage with the loss of a competitor and increased their positions in such assets, a Barron's report said.
Increased merger activity will carry over to next year - report
The general consensus of research firms and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experts believed that the brisk activity of dealmaking will keep its momentum till the next year.
590 venture-backed US companies could be IPO candidates next year - report
Research firm CB Insights revealed in its latest report that IPO activity will most likely be the most active in the technology sector as over 500 companies have healthy trajectories and high valuations.
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Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust, Quebec's biggest commercial property owner and manager, has bought Montenach Mall in the Beloeil suburb for $60 million. The said mall has an area of 328,050 sq. ft. and is 93.2% rented.
A regulatory filing showed that Ozy Media, a daily digital news startup co-founded by Carlos Watson and launched in September, raised $5.3 million, the San Francisco Business Times reported.
Miami failed to convince US District Judge Cecilia Altonaga that the lawsuit filed against the city by the US Securities and Exchange Commission should be dismissed, Reuters reported.
Dallas-based Behringer Harvard Multifamily REIT I Inc expanded its co-investment arrangement with PGGM Private Real Estate Fund by agreeing to a new $300 million deal to co-invest in multifamily communities.
NASDAQ OMX Group on Friday said that it would pay $41.6 million on December 31 for qualifying claims related to Facebook's botched initial public offering.
The Wendy's Company said it had sold 30 restaurants in Austin to HAZA Foods and another 19 restaurants to Desmond Foods as part of its System Optimization initiative.
Tim Draper, the billionaire whose venture capital firm has invested in Skype and Baidu, has proposed to divide California into six mini-states, the Financial Times reported.
US retailer Target said that the data breach involving some 40 million of its credit and debit cards included encrypted personal identification numbers, the Financial Times reported.
Hyundai Motor Co. on Friday named sales chief David Zuchowski as the new chief of its US arm. Zuchowski will replace incumbent US chief John Krafcik, whose contract expires at the end of the year.
