From the mailbag:
“At year end Dec 2009, GoldenTree faced over a half a billion dollars of redemptions. After gating investors in 2008 for over a year, they finally had to face the music after pressure from its LPs who were tired of being locked up.
Redemptions
As reported yesterday, a source close to Sanjay Santhanam, Galleon’s head of risk management, told Dealbreaker that Santhanam recently expressed fears the firm “could be closed by Friday,” due to a massive amount of redemptions. A representative of the fund, however, takes issue with the potential expiration date offered by San-San, pointing out that, technically, the death would be much more slower and painful, and take us through the New Year.
New Castle: We Got Rid Of The Galleon Groupies, Nothing Is F*cked, But We Understand If You Want To Run For The Exits
By Bess LevinUpdate: UBP takes New Castle up on offer to pull money.
The New Castle Funds, once part of Bear Stearns Asset Management, have informed investors that despite the news of president Mark Kurland and “consultant” Danielle Chiesi being arrested for their roles in the Galleon insider trading case, everything is cool. Kurland and Chiesi have been blacklisted and your money in safe. Nevertheless, if you want to take your cash and make a run for it A-sap, everyone here will understand. (All funds provide monthly liquidity with 30 days notice.)
Ok manager boy. If you gave your Scroll and Key buddies a wink and a nod so they could sneak their redemptions out before the freezes, well, you are in a world of hurt and some people are going to want to talk to you. Hell, with the present mood of the public, you may well get yourself 20 years.
A surge in redemption suspensions and liquidations in the past year has created “particular concern as to whether hedge- fund advisers may be favoring their own interests above others,” Walter said today in prepared testimony to the House Financial Services Committee. “Principals, employees or favored investors of the hedge-fund adviser may have received ‘preferential redemptions’ from the fund at issue.”
SEC Hunts for ‘Preferential’ Hedge-Fund Redemptions [Bloomberg]
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