Sunday, July 31, 2011

Lansdowne Dumps $850 Million Goldman Stake

According to the Sunday Telegraph Lansdowne Partners Ltd., a London- based hedge fund, sold its $850 million stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the Sunday Telegraph reported, without saying where it got the information.
The decision was based partly on reduced proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs stemming from regulation in the U.S., the newspaper said.
Lansdowne was among the top 20 investors in Goldman Sachs, and the stake made up almost 10 percent of the hedge fund’s $10 billion under management, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

The last time Lansdowne sold shares of Goldman Sachs was before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008, the paper said….

Find out more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-31/lansdowne-sells-850-million-goldman-sachs-stake-sunday-telegraph-reports.html

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