Monday, Jun 25, 2007

Hedge fund write offs and property markets

Times: London hedge fund feels sub-prime pain

"Falling UK and US housing market means Cheyne Capital has had to write €108m off its €400m Queen's Walk fund. Queen's Walk also had to write down the value of UK mortgage loans because of the possibilty of increased defaults as rising interest rates hit home."

Posted by confused76 @ 10:07 PM (168 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. royston said...

.....and another one bites the dust!

Monday, June 25, 2007 10:16PM Report Comment
 

2. paul said...

"on both sides of the atlantic ... "

Indeed.

Monday, June 25, 2007 11:23PM Report Comment
 

3. mrmickey said...

Isn't globalisation wonderful, this is it's Achilles heal when things start going belly up in one corner of the world it will spread like bird flu to all corners there will be nowhere to hide.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 09:27AM Report Comment
 

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