Thursday, December 6, 2012

Hedge fund Diamondback to close after clients pull out




According to Reuters Diamondback Capital Management, one of a handful of firms embroiled in a government insider trading investigation, told investors it would close down after nervous clients demanded the return of more than a quarter of its assets.

Richard Schimel and Larry Sapanski, the firm's co-heads, broke the news to clients in a letter Thursday just three weeks after investors asked Diamondback to return $520 million, five times the amount top executives had expected.

As assets dwindled to $1.45 billion from about $5 billion two years ago, the firm's business model was in jeopardy and executives had to decide between closing the firm down or trying to engineer a second big restructuring within 18 months…..

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