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Reuters – S.A.C. Capital Advisors, one of the world’s biggest and most successful hedge fund firms, is expanding its Asian operations by opening a new office in Singapore amid strong industry investment returns across the region. Two portfolio managers will […]

Bloomberg – Marshall Wace LLP, the London-based hedge-fund manager overseeing $4 billion in assets, returned 26 percent with its Japan-focused hedge fund this year by tapping ideas from 150 equity salespeople from outside the firm. The Marshall Wace TOPS Japan […]

Reuters – Hedge fund Harbinger Capital partners has cut its stake in The New York Times Co yet again, about two years after spending half a billion dollars to become one of its largest shareholders. Harbinger reported a 12.79 percent […]

Reuters – Moves to dilute a draft European Union law on regulating hedge fund managers would be a setback to the bloc’s single financial market, the EU’s executive body said on Tuesday. The European Commission has proposed that managers of […]

Reuters – London hedge fund firm Autonomy Capital Group has hired Scott Nelson, formerly the chief operating officer of Deephaven Capital Management, the latest hire to bolster the $1.3 billion firm’s management team, people familiar with the matter said on […]

Guardian – Nothing sets a journalist’s pulse racing more than a good row. Our ceaseless lust for friction has been fed expertly by Nicolas Sarkozy in recent days, when he proclaimed that the “English are the big losers” in the […]

Bloomberg – Sparx Asset Management Co.’s Tadahiro Fujimura led a 26 percent return for his Rising Sun fund this year, the best performer in the Asian market with the worst returns for smaller companies. The 1.2 billion yen ($14 million) […]