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Saturday, 22 February 2014, 1:11 am
Chris Hohn, the founder of The Children's Investment Fund, has denied he is the secretive hedge fund manager who has recently been snapping up beautiful properties in Belsize Park and Primrose Hill.
Some of my sources claimed Mr Hohn, who is well-known in the City for his aggressive style of shareholder activism, was behind the purchase of the Belsize Park property (see the picture below) in yesterday's Betaville post...
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Friday, 21 February 2014, 2:54 am
The mysterious tale involving the hedgie and the £20m plus Primrose Hill mansion continues.
Some of my sources are sure the secretive hedge fund manager has recently bought another beautiful property in Belsize Park - just round the corner from Primrose Hill pile.
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 6:46 pm
Which well-known hedge fund manager has recently bought this £20m plus pile in Primrose Hill?
Looks like he/she is doing some serious renovation work.
Indeed, multi-million pound renovations, such as sticking an olympic size swimming pool on a second lower ground floor underneath your brand new mansion seems to be the vogue thing to do nowadays. Whether that's the plan with this lovely house remains to be seen...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 4:27 pm
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Monday, 17 February 2014, 10:52 pm
Gary Parkinson's Trading Secrets column in today's The Times is highly amusing - here is a link to it in case you haven't had a chance to read it.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/columnists/article4007347.ece..
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Monday, 17 February 2014, 3:36 am
Bloggers have set the agenda for the this weekend's newspapers.
The business sections of both The Times and The Sunday Times splashed on Betaville's Friday afternoon scoop about the billionaire Ruia brothers making an £900m offer for FTSE 250-listed Essar Energy, which was later confirmed on the regulatory news service...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014, 1:29 am
Essar Global, a vehicle controlled by the Ruia brothers, has confirmed my story about a potential offer for Essar Energy. I have pasted the release below:
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Friday, 14 February 2014, 11:00 pm
Remember Essar Energy? The Indian oil and gas group that floated in 2010 in one of the worst debut performances of any new London-listed company in almost a decade.
Back then, the new shares were issued at 420p and slumped 7pc on the first day of trading. Since the flotation in 2010, the stock has tumbled to almost 57p...
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