Hedge Funds

Energy bets help take down hedge fund

Former UBS executive Joseph Scoby's Achievement Asset Management is to shutter once-$2 billion fund

Energy bets help take down hedge fund

One of Chicago’s biggest hedge funds is shutting down, victim of a brutal pullback for energy bonds pummeling Wall Street investors and international oil companies alike.

The roughly $900 million hedge fund at Achievement Asset Management, run by former UBS executive Joseph Scoby, was down about 7% through the end of October. Mr. Scoby said he opted to hand back the remaining cash rather than "run a laboratory with investors' money."

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