Ex. Galleon guy blows 100 million dollar hedge fund in 4 weeks.

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by prc117f, Jan 21, 2015.

  1. i960

    i960

    The language was "Owen Li, the founder of Canarsie Capital in New York, said Tuesday he had lost all but $200,000 of the firm's capital—down from the roughly $100 million it ran as of late March."

    So in reality he's probably been running this into the ground for months.
     
    #11     Jan 21, 2015
  2. He will return with a billion in several years. Wall street loves big risk takers and rewards them win or lose. surf
     
    #12     Jan 21, 2015
  3. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    I am surprised that his lieutenant "at Canarsie is Ken deRegt, who joined in 2013 after having retiring as the global head of fixed income sales and trading at Morgan Stanley" with so much experience allowed him to take on so much risk unless they were not trading but actually spending the $100 million...
     
    #13     Jan 21, 2015
  4. Sadly you're probably right. Meanwhile a guy who mauled the market for 15-20 years with low risk can't raise a dollar.
     
    #14     Jan 21, 2015
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  5. traderob

    traderob

    speechless
     
    #15     Jan 21, 2015
  6. Sh.t ! That s probably why most traders have been making a lot of dough last week... it s a zero sum game !..
     
    #16     Jan 22, 2015
  7. Definitely, a letter stating "sorry", and maybe adding a bottle of wine for Xmas to each investor should do it... LOL

    Raising the bar of finance ethics !
     
    #17     Jan 22, 2015
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  8. Anyone has a picture of the guy? I d love to see what a winner like this looks like...
    He manages to raise 100mil, most certainly on the back of it "spotlessly clean" resume (guy had never failed before in any of its endeavours you see), and blows it up in less than 9months... Astounding...
     
    #18     Jan 22, 2015
  9. Google his name and you will see pictures.
     
    #19     Jan 22, 2015
  10. d08

    d08

    I read he was just having a crappy December and wanted to "make the clients good" ;)
     
    #20     Jan 22, 2015