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Reuters – A potential 150 billion pounds fund covering British workers without pensions from 2012 should invest in alternative assets like property and hedge funds, a consultation of future stakeholders showed on Wednesday. Private equity and commodities should also be […]

Reuters – Hedge funds are far from popular, but one lawyer thinks Pennsylvania voters will support his calls for banning corporate bailouts, putting an end to “too big to fail” and taking the bulls-eye off fund managers. Christopher Paige, 38, […]

Bloomberg – Samena Japan Absolute Return Fund, a four-month-old, Japan-focused hedge fund, is beating the Topix index, betting on companies with new management and growing industries, including recycling and elderly care. The $17 million fund, which employs a so-called long-short […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds provided as much as 40 percent of the money raised this year by U.S. and European banks as they sought to offset losses and meet government capital requirements, according to Morgan Stanley. Financial firms have raised […]

WSJ – A London-based investor in hedge funds is set to launch a product that will not charge any performance fees, as pressure mounts on a sector that made record losses last year. Financial Risk Management, a $9 billion (EUR6 […]

Reuters – Lehman Brothers International (Europe), where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank’s collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new […]

WSJ – Gold has long been favored by a fringe of the investment world, but this year some of the world’s leading hedge-fund managers have loaded up on the precious metal amid concern government efforts to avoid another Great Depression […]