Fortress Investments cuts its staff by 11%

Shares in first NYSE-listed alternatives firm slump 96% from peak

Monday 9 February 2009 at 17:00

Fortress Investments, which two years ago this week became the first alternative investment company to list on the New York Stock Exchange, has become the latest to cut staff, slashing 11% of its employees in the fourth quarter of last year.

A source close to the firm said Fortress had reduced numbers from 900 at the end of September to about 800, mainly in the last two months of the year.