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Article: Netherlands : Ex-Ospraie Traders Start Falckon Energy Hedge Fund.
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- August 6, 2009
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Byline: babalu03
Erik Verhaar, a former energy trader at Ospraie Management LLC and Deutsche Bank AG, started a hedge fund this week in the Netherlands as investors return to commodities.
His new Falckon Capital BV, betting on U.K. natural gas and European power, emissions, coal and oil, has attracted one investor so far, Verhaar said yesterday in an interview.
Verhaar, 46, started at Cargill Inc. in 1987 as a cocoa trader and worked for Goldman Sachs Inc. and Nuon NV before joining Deutsche Bank in London in 2000, advancing to managing director for gas and power trading. He joined Ospraie s biggest commodities fund in March 2008, six months ...