guys named Guru can’t be wrong (twice)

  • 02 Dec 2009 at 11:59 AM

Old Lane Revived (Sort Of)

Thumbnail image for vikrampanditface.jpgI give this new hedge fund my highest recommendation.Remember Old Lane Partners? You know, that hedge fund that Citigroup had to buy to get its hands on CEO of the Century Vikram Pandit?
Well, if you missed out on the chance to lose your shirt on it during its all-too-short two years of (mis)managing money, don’t despair. You may yet have another chance.
Guru Ramakrishnan–the last CEO of the doomed hedge fund–and five other former Old Laners are back, sans Vikram, of course. And despite the Old Lane’s disastrous run, they’ve managed to raise more than $200 million from outside investors eager to see if Old Lane Part Deux (officially called Meru Capital) can match Old Lane’s intoxicating mix of hubris, incompetence and extraordinary enrichment of its managers.

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