Fiat Chrysler attracts more investment from hedge fund manager
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Chase Coleman¡¯s Tiger Global Management has invested more than $1 billion in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles after more than doubling its position in the automaker since the end of June.
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The U.S. fund becomes the fourth biggest investor in the Italian American company. Tiger Global increased its stake to 59.67 million shares as of Sept. 3, Dutch regulator AFM¡¯s website shows. Tiger Global, which oversees about $22 billion in assets, had 26.05 million Fiat Chrysler shares at the end of June, according to Bloomberg data.
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The hedge fund manager, which unveiled a stake worth more than $1 billion in SoftBank Group in July, boosted its holding in Fiat Chrysler during a dramatic period for the company. Former CEO Sergio Marchionne, who created the world¡¯s seventh biggest automaker out of two struggling players, died in July after complications from surgery. Fiat shareholders confirmed Mike Manley as the new CEO last week at a meeting in Amsterdam.
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Manley, 54, who also still runs the Jeep brand, is working to put his stamp on Fiat Chrysler and will announce a new management structure by the end of this month. He took the CEO reigns on July 21 as Marchionne¡¯s condition worsened. The former CEO died July 25th, the same day Manley told investors that the automaker was cutting its its profit target for the year.
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Coleman founded New York-based Tiger Global in 2001. He is a so-called ¡°tiger cub,¡± a term coined for alumni of Julian Robertson¡¯s hedge fund Tiger Management, where Coleman was a technology analyst. The firm has a hedge fund business and an $11 billion venture capital unit.
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In the second quarter, Tiger built its stake in music-streaming company Spotify to $2.15 billion, according to regulatory filings. The firm was poised to make about $3 billion from its $1 billion investment in Flipkart Group after selling about three-quarters of its position to Walmart, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported in May. That transaction closed in August.
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Carolyn Sargent, a spokeswoman for Tiger at Rubenstein Associates, declined to comment on the Fiat Chrysler investment.
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13 Sep,2018