Pine River Capital Management Explained

Pine River Capital Management L.P.
Type:Private company
Industry:Financial services
Founder:Brian Taylor (CEO and CIO)
Location City:Minnetonka, MN
Location Country:United States
Locations:Two additional offices in New York City and London
Products:Investment Management
Asset Management

Pine River Capital Management is an American asset management firm based in Minnetonka, MN.[1] [2] [3] [4] The firm traded its investors funds using stocks, fixed income, derivatives and warrants.[5]

, the company managed approximately across three actively managed platforms: hedge funds, managed accounts and listed investment vehicles to support a number of strategies including interest rates, mortgages, equity long/short, event-driven equity, and global convertible bond arbitrage.[6] [7] The company is managed by founder and CEO Brian Taylor and 6 partners.[8] [9]

History

Brian Taylor founded Pine River in 2002 to pursue opportunities in global relative value trading with an initial investment of $5.3 million.[1] [10] [11] [12] The firm was initially located in Pine River, Minnesota, before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2003.[1] In 2007, Pine River relocated to Minnetonka.[13] Pine River's various portfolio management teams take a relative value approach to investing, seeking to identify dislocations between prices of related financial instruments and markets.[1] [14]

Pine River Capital Management L.P. became registered as an investment advisor with the US Securities and Futures Commission in January 2006. Pine River Capital Management (UK) Limited became authorized by the British Financial Services Authority to manage investments in the UK in January 2004.[15]

Between October 2009 and August 2020, a subsidiary of Pine River was the external investment manager of Two Harbors Investment Corp., a publicly listed real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage-backed securities and related instruments.[16] [17]

Between June 2017 and December 2020, Pine River was the external manager of Granite Point Mortgage Trust, a publicly listed real estate investment trust that focused on directly originating, investing in, and managing senior floating-rate commercial mortgage loans and other debt and debt-like commercial real estate investments.[18]

In 2017, following a wave of withdrawals, Pine River closed one of its master funds.[19] [20] Between 2015 and 2018 its assets declined from to .[21]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pine River housing bets started in cabin. Svea Herbst-Bayliss. Mar 5, 2010. Reuters. Dec 30, 2013.
  2. Web site: Sublime Subprime. Forbes. Mar 27, 2013. Daniel Fisher. Dec 30, 2013.
  3. Web site: Pine River's Kuhn Diversifies to Bet Against 'Drunk Businessman'. Mary Childs. Bloomberg News. Oct 3, 2013. Dec 30, 2013.
  4. Web site: Hedge funds win big with subprime mortgages. Maureen Farrell. Jan 4, 2013. CNN Money. Dec 30, 2013.
  5. Web site: Hedge Fund - Pine River Capital Management. Insider Monkey. Dec 30, 2013.
  6. Web site: Pine River China Fund to Start With as Much as $150 Million . Bei Hu . . September 5, 2013 .
  7. Web site: Chart of the Month . Hedge Fund Intelligence . March 30, 2009 .
  8. Web site: Company Overview of Pine River Capital Management L.P. . https://archive.today/20140101012621/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=26880720. dead. January 1, 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek . July 2, 2014 .
  9. Web site: Goldman Sachs to GLG Open Asia Hedge Funds as Big Is Chic . Bei Hu . . November 27, 2013 .
  10. Web site: The Secret Behind The #7 Best Performing Hedge Fund Of 2010: The 10 Math Geniuses They Got In China. Courtney Comstock . . January 23, 2011.
  11. Web site: Pine River joins hedge funds closing to new money . Stephen Foley . . June 12, 2014 .
  12. Web site: Pine River Capital Returns Outside Money in Mortgage Fund. Rob Copeland. Wall Street Journal. June 13, 2014.
  13. Web site: The Billion Dollar Interview. Eureka Hedge. March 2011.
  14. Web site: Hedge fund says housing market may dip again. Svea Herbst-Bayliss. Reuters. March 3, 2010.
  15. Web site: Pine River Capital Management L.P.. SkyBridge Capital Conference. September 27, 2013.
  16. Web site: Company Overview. Two Harbors Investment Corp.. Dec 30, 2013.
  17. Web site: Two Harbors Investment Corp. Announces Completion of Transition to Self-Management .
  18. Web site: Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. Announces Internalization of Management .
  19. News: Chung . Juliet . Pine River Capital Shutting $1 Billion Flagship Hedge Fund . September 18, 2017.
  20. News: Pine River Is Closing Its Master Fund After a Plunge in Assets . Marsh . Alistair . Porzecanski . Katia . . September 18, 2017 . August 10, 2018.
  21. News: Troubled hedge fund Pine River is leaving Mayfair HQ. February 23, 2018. August 10, 2018.