GLG Partners Hedge Fund

GLG Partners Hedge Fund Tracker Notes

The following piece on GLG Partners, LP is being published as part of our Hedge Fund Tracker Tool, our daily effort to track hedge funds in the industry.

Resource #1: (11.2.08) One of Europe’s largest hedge funds, GLG, is sending a letter to investors this weekend saying it is to launch a “liquidity review” of its funds.

It is also going to stop investors making withdrawals from its $1.5 billion (£930m) Market Neutral fund for six months. The review will decide the best way to preserve capital in GLG’s 40 funds.

The Mayfair-based firm, run by founders Noam Gottesman and Pierre Lagrange, will also tell investors looking to quit the $2.5 billion Emerging Markets fund that they will not receive a full return as a tranche of the fund’s investments is too illiquid to sell.

The Emerging Markets fund, which has lost half of its value this year, has been hammered by stockmarket chaos in countries such as Russia where wild price swings have led regulators to suspend trading.

GLG’s top trader, Greg Coffey, who walked away from a $250m share package when he resigned in April, finally left the company this weekend. Source

Resource #2: Here is a letter to investors put out by GLG partners on their homepage earlier this week. It addresses the firm’s exposure to Lehman Brothers in midst of that firms bankruptcy.
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Dear GLG Fund Investor,

We wanted to update you about the impact to us arising from the administration proceedings of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (“LBIE”), and the insolvency proceedings of other entities in the Lehman Brothers group. In total, we currently estimate that the combined direct exposure of the GLG Funds to be approximately $95 million, or less than 1% of GLG’s net AUM. We have detailed each Fund’s potential exposure stemming from LBIE’s administration in letters to the investors in those Funds.

Our assessment of the LBIE exposure is based upon a number of assumptions (including, that amounts LBIE was required to treat for each Fund as client money and not use in the course of its business were and are, in fact, so held and will be released upon repayment by each Fund of all its debt to LBIE) and in accordance with legal and professional advice obtained. That said, until we are able to fully reconcile our information and assumptions with the administrators of LBIE, our estimates could change. Source: PrimeBrokerageGuide.com

Resource #3: Emmanuel Roman, of GLG Partners, said 25pc-30pc of the world’s 8,000 hedge funds would disappear “in a Darwinian process”, either going bust or deciding meager profits are not worth their efforts.

“This will go down in the history books as one of the greatest fiascos of banking in 100 years,”

But I’m not really sure why. Hedge funds haven’t caused any of the current problems, indeed, many of them, by going short, have reduced the size of the bubble and thus the subsequent crash.

“There need to be some scapegoats, and the regulators are going to go hunt people. Now that is certainly true, and hedge funds most certainly are going to be one of the prime suspects to be those scapegoats. But there’s no good reason why they should be.

Hedge funds are simply investment vehicles, ones that by restricting themselves to only taking investments from sophisticated investors are able to do things that mutual funds and unit trusts cannot because of regulation. They can go short, invest in different classes, commodities, bonds, shares, as they wish. Source

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