Highfields Capital Management
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| Limited Partnership | |
| Industry | Hedge funds[1] |
| Founded | 1998[1] |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts[1], U.S. |
| AUM | US$10,000,000,000 (2010)[2] |
| Website |
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Highfields Capital Management LP is a hedge fund founded in 1998 which had assets in excess of $10 billion in 2011, per a report in Absolute Return + Alpha.
Business
In 2012, the company described itself as a "value-oriented investment management firm which manages private investment funds for endowments, charitable and philanthropic foundations, pension funds and other institutional and private investors ... [with] over $11 Billion in net capital invested worldwide".[3]
In 2010, Highfields was listed as having $10 billion of assets on January 1, 2010 (30th in The Hedge Fund Journal Top 50), up from $9.3 billion on July 1, 2009 and up from a 38th-place ranking in 2008.[2]
Highfields has invested in publicly traded equities;[4] private companies like Harry & David,[5][6] Michaels (6.2%[7]) and Genworth Financial;[8] and other investments including reinsurance sidecars.[9] In February 2012, Highfields called for management change at CoreLogic,[10] in which it had a 7.65% stake.[11]
Senior management
Richard Grubman and Jonathon Jacobson were the founders and principals of Highfields.[2]
Grubman retired in August 2010.[11]
Jacobson is an undergraduate alumnus of Wharton School in finance and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.[11] After working as an options trader and at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, he joined Harvard Management Company in 1990. In 1998 Jacobson HMC left to co-found Highfields with a third of the fund's initial $1.5 billion under management coming from HMC.[11] Bloomberg reported in 2011 that HMC no longer invested with Highfields.[12]
References
- 1 2 3 "Company Overview of Highfields Capital Management, LP", businessweek.com. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- 1 2 3 McIntosh, Bill, ed., "The US50", The Hedge Fund Journal in association with Newedge Prime Brokerage Group. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ↑ Highfields Capital, the one non-customer company webpage. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ↑ Williams, Kimberly, "Highfields Capital Mgmt LP Holdings in 2nd Quarter [(2011): 13F Alert", Bloomberg, August 15, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ↑ "Harry & David Files for Bankruptcy", New York Times, March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Effinger, Anthony, "Wasserstein Haunts Harry & David in Buyout Doomed to Bankruptcy", Bloomberg Markets Magazine, October 12, 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- ↑ Oran, Olivia, and Greg Roumeliotis, "Blackstone, Bain prepare Michaels Stores IPO", Reuters, March 27, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ↑ "Highfields increases stake in Genworth Financial", AP Digital via Bloomberg, 06/28/2012. Via Sammy Pollack, "Genworth Leads S&P 500, What You Need To Know", Seeking Alpha, June 29, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- ↑ "Moody's rates Cyrus Reinsurance II Ltd's proposed bank loans". Moody's Investors Service. November 27, 2007.
- ↑ "Highfields Calls for Ouster of CoreLogic's Management", New York Times, February 28, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- 1 2 3 4 "Highfields Capital Management", Hedge Fund Letters, n.d. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- ↑ Wee, Gillian, "Harvard's Crimson Cubs With $43 Billion Dwarf Their Former Endowment Home", Bloomberg, March 2, 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
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