Agricultural Commodities

Hedge fund couple split businesses after separation

By Laurence Fletcher LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – David Murrin and Susan Payne, the UK-based husband and wife hedge fund team accused by one U.S. thinktank of fuelling and exploiting a global commodity crisis, are to split the two businesses they founded together after agreeing to separate. Murrin, a former oil company geologist well known ... Read More

BlackRock Plans $200 Million Agriculture Hedge Fund, People Say

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) — BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded asset manager in the U.S., plans to raise as much as $200 million for an agricultural commodities hedge fund, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. The BlackRock Agricultural Fund will start trading early next month under Graham Birch, said the people, who ... Read More