Posts tagged: Poundland

The week ahead: Berkeley Group, Poundland and, er, that's it

Sunday, 4 September 2016, 8:15 pm

As regular readers of my work can imagine, I was rather busy yesterday (see yesterday's The Sunday Times). So, a few jackanories fell by the wayside during yesterday's mayhem.

One of those things was a story I was trying to stack up about Berkeley Group, the London-focused housebuilder that has been heavily shorted by hedge funds over the last few months...

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Peculiarities with Poundland bid

Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 8:56 pm

The sharp suited types over at Elliott - the punchy American hedge fund that often makes big, acitivist punts on events - have done something rather unusual: the hedgies have switched most of the near 23pc position in Poundland into physical equity...

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