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CityWire – Deutsche Bank has teamed with Omega Advisors to launch a Ucits-compliant long/short equity hedge fund on its dbalternatives platform. The fund, which is called DB Platinum Omega and is due to be launched officially in December, will be managed […]

Reuters – Almost half of hedge fund managers believe Italy and Spain, two major countries at the centre of the euro zone debt crisis, are likely to default, a survey published on Tuesday showed. A majority of the managers surveyed, […]

Reuters – A year after four hedge funds were raided as part of a sweeping probe into insider trading, U.S. agents are ready to arrest as many as three people who worked at the raided funds, sources familiar with the […]

Boston Globe – A federal appeals court did not immediately rule Wednesday whether hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam must report to prison next week for an 11-year sentence for insider trading, the longest term ever given for the crime. Attorney […]

Bloomberg – Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Citigroup Inc. had long-term credit grades reduced to A- from A by Standard & Poor’s after the ratings firm revised criteria for dozens of the world’s biggest […]

Reuters – Oil consuming nations, hedge funds and big oil refineries are quietly preparing for a Doomsday scenario: An attack on Iran that would halt oil supplies from OPEC’s second-largest producer. Most political analysts and oil traders say the probability […]

Reuters – Almost half of hedge fund managers believe Italy and Spain, two major countries at the centre of the euro zone debt crisis, are likely to default, a survey published on Tuesday showed. A majority of the managers surveyed, collectively representing […]

Bloomberg – Edgebell Capital Co., run by former bankers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., aims to start a global macro hedge fund in February that will wager on trends in stocks, bonds and currencies. The […]