SS&C Enters the Hedge Zone
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The Motley Fool - Financial services firms like Citigroup (NYSE: C - News), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC - News), and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD - News) want to offer just about everything. To do this requires huge investments in Information Technologies (IT). That's good news for enterprise software companies that focus on the financial services industry, such as Advent Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADVS - News) and SunGard (NYSE: SDS - News).
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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LAND Securities and Slough Estates have exchanged contracts for a property swap that will involve an exchange of the majority of their retail and industrial property portfolios with a combined value of about ...
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Dow and S&amp;P close at records after surge; hedge funds may be rethinking their doubts.
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The latest deal will provide an edge in the intensely competitive security market.
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Strange happenings from the investing and business world.
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The bond firm plans to tackle riskier investments.
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The company teeters on the edge of profitability, but lines up another immense opportunity.
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By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Dec. 9--A Clifton security company has received an infusion of cash and  contracts from a California telecommunications equipment maker.   Shares of Electronic Control Security Inc.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission passed rules Tuesday that will require most hedge fund advisers to register with the government within two years, firming up oversight on an industry that has been linked to several high-profile financial blowups.
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Subprime isn't totally to blame for the market's gyrations. Reg FD, hedge funds and electronic trading add volatility.
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The money is coming. Profit from where it will go.
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These companies are building a wall around your investment.
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Rising interest rates hurt the value of hedges it holds to protect profits on its mortgage portfolio.
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By David Nivens, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Feb.
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This contract manufacturer is flexing its muscles.
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New York - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its 160-page rule extending its oversight to the $866 billion (R5.02 trillion) hedge fund industry more than a month after commissioners narrowly backed the move in a 3-2 vote.