Morgan Stanley Buys >20% of Barton Biggs Traxis Partners
November 14th, 2007 by admin
Morgan Stanley has purchased a less than 20% stake in Traxis Partners. The Macro hedge fund started by Barton Biggs. This follows Morgan Stanley purchases of Avenue Capital, Front Point Partners, and Lansdowne partners in the past year. They are trying to buy their way into the hedge fund space and so far it is working all right.
This purchase was near and dear to Morgan because Biggs used to be the chief market strategist at Morgan before claiming that Hedge Funds were in a bubble and then leaving to start one. Traxis has about $1.5 billion under management and has done decent since inception. A few years ago Barton Biggs also wrote the book Hedge Hogging.
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