Bill Gross’s Pimco Total Return Fund, the world’s biggest mutual fund, attracted $231 million in investor deposits in January as performance rebounded. The new money ended three straight months of redemptions from Pimco Total Return, according to data compiled by Chicago- based Morningstar Inc. Investors pulled about $3 billion from the fund in the three months ended Dec. 31, bringing withdrawals last year to $5 billion, the research firm said. The $250.5 billion Pimco Total Return has advanced 2.4 percent this year, beating 99 percent of similarly managed funds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. [Bloomberg, related]
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PIMCO Pantry’s Supply Of Gourmet Popcorn In The Garbage Can-Sized Tins Will Live To See Another Day
By Bess LevinEarlier this week, Phil Falcone notified investors in his Credit Distressed BlueLine Fund, in advance of a previously announced April 2012 wind-up. Today, he sent out a letter notifying investors in Harbinger Capital Fund I, Harbinger Capital Partners Offshore Fund I, Harbinger Capital Partners Fund II, and Harbinger Capital Partner Offshore Fund II that they should “anticipate” having redemptions frozen as well, on account of the Well Notice received by the SEC. Happy Holidays. [WSJ]
For about a year now, hedge fund manager Phil Falcone’s relationship with his investors has been a bit rocky. While many expressed displeasure at his decision to tie up a good chunk of money in a wireless bet that may or may not pan out, what really set a lot of people off was Falcone’s decision, last November, to loan himself $113 million from a fund in which redemptions has been suspended, in order to pay personal taxes he hadn’t set aside enough cash to cover. Since then, Phil has not only paid the $113 million back, but 1) proved he learned his lesson re: borrowing money from humorless clients (in July he failed to pay $201,101 in property taxes, which he could have loaned himself from you know who but didn’t) and 2) offered investors interested in redeeming the opportunity to receive illiquid shares of his new company, or to sell their stakes on Craigslist. All of which is to say, he’s grown a lot in the last year. BlueLine fund investors, who were told in Harbinger’s most recent letter that their redemptions have been suspended, should keep that in mind. Continue reading »
Which is a mere 6 years after they asked for it back, so, not much to complain about here. Continue reading »
Unlike certain other hedge fund investors (no names: FrontPoint) Diamondback clients have balls. Continue reading »
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