Author Archives: Editor

SF Chronicle – Investors may add about $80 billion of new capital to hedge funds globally this year, the most since 2007, Barclays Plc said in a report. About 56 percent of investors surveyed by Barclays plan to increase such […]

Dow Jones – The Managed Funds Association, a trade association representing the global alternative investment industry, this month wrote to the Securities & Exchange Commission calling for the repeal of a US rule established in 1933. In a letter to […]

ET – European hedge fund managers are betting that China’s once red hot economic growth will cool dramatically in 2012, hitting companies, economies and commodity prices that have been fuelled by the world’s second largest economy in recent years. Managers […]

Forbes – The manager of a formerly $550 million hedge fund firm has been found to be in civil contempt of court for violating temporary injuction orders and threatened with jail time by a Connecticut state judge who disapproved of […]

Reuters – Hedge funds are positioning to profit from a plan to slash Greece’s towering debt pile as Athens enters final talks that could sway the country’s membership of the euro. York Capital, the $14 billion fund part-owned by Swiss […]

Bloomberg – Mortgage securities are drawing buyers after tumbling last year and handing billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson his first loss in the bond market. Paulson, who made $15 billion in 2007 betting against U.S. subprime mortgages, is sticking with bullish investments in […]

Reuters – Hedge fund investors are likely to move almost a sixth of their cash into the hands of different managers in 2012, a report on Friday showed, as firms in the $2 trillion sector grapple with winning back the […]

Dow Jones -Some hedge funds are kicking off the new year with glimmers of hope. After a gut-wrenching 2011, these funds are betting signs of improvement in financial markets will give traditional “macro” trades based on economic growth and inflation a […]

Forbes – The manager of a formerly $550 million hedge fund firm has been found to be in civil contempt of court for violating temporary injuction orders and threatened with jail time by a Connecticut state judge who disapproved of […]

Reuters – Not only was it a bad year for the hedge fund industry, but 2011 may be the year the model was exposed as fundamentally broken. Last year had all of the hallmarks of the kind of year in […]

Bloomberg) — Hedge funds in New York and London are trying to profit from trading Greek government bonds as European banks brace for losses from a debt swap. Saba Capital Management LP, founded by former Deutsche Bank AG credit trader […]

Reuters – A hedge fund manager from a prominent Denver family was sentenced in New York to one year and one day in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to insider trading charges. Drew “Bo” Brownstein, who controlled Big 5 […]