Economics
Jabre Outwits London Censurers With Geneva's Hot New Hedge Fund
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One evening in 2003, a star money manager at GLG Partners LP, one of Europe's biggest hedge fund firms, answered the telephone at his office near London's Hyde Park. The news: Project Shoot was about to commence.
The manager, Philippe Jabre, listened as a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. salesman divulged the plan. Shoot was Goldman code for Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. John Rustum, the caller, confided that the Tokyo-based bank planned to sell billions of dollars of convertible bonds. The sale would sink Sumitomo stock.