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Among Vikram Pandit’s last jobs as Citigroup Inc.’s chief executive officer was to decide the fate of the bank’s hedge-fund unit, which employs some of his oldest colleagues. He agreed to give them most of it for free.
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Citigroup Inc. has moved Ramakrishna Putcha, a former proprietary trader, into an internal hedge fund that makes bets with about $200 million of the firm’s money after the portfolio slid 14 percent last year.
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Lobbyists for U.S. banks say a proposed ban on proprietary trading will cost companies and investors more than $350 billion. Some economists and fund managers say the claim is greatly exaggerated.
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Sutesh Sharma, who heads a team of Citigroup Inc. proprietary traders, intends to leave the company and start a hedge fund, two people familiar with the plan said.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s deal to settle a U.S. regulator’s claims that the bank misled buyers of mortgage-linked securities before the housing market collapsed echoed a case brought last year against Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Citigroup Inc. , which took a $45 billion U.S. bailout after losses on subprime home loans, is boosting profits from a hedge fund that bets the bank’s money on mortgage debt -- a practice regulators plan to restrict.
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Citigroup Inc., the third-biggest U.S. lender, invested about $800 million of shareholders’ money in its own private-equity and hedge funds during the third quarter as regulators seek to curtail the practice.
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Tom Perkins, who is leaving the News Corp. board next month after saying two octogenarian directors are too many, wouldn’t feel so old if he served at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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