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Toscafund Losses Grow
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Daily News
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July 2, 2008
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- Bill McIntosh, Senior Financial Correspondent
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LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - Toscafund Asset Management LLP, a
British hedge fund manager that specializes in financial stocks, has
suffered renewed falls on parts of its investment portfolio that
have taken its losses to about 25% since the beginning of 2008. It
is being particularly hurt by an ill-timed move into British housing
stocks in the early spring.
The fund, headed by former Tiger-cub Martin Hughes, isn't
believed to be in any difficulty in continuing to trade and has
prime brokerage facilities with Morgan Stanley & Co., UBS AG and
Credit Suisse Securities Ltd. The firm added Credit Suisse as a
prime broker in March. But the renewed plunges in the stocks of
British homebuilders and ...