(Reuters) Marcato Capital Management sued Deckers Outdoor Corp on Monday to force the maker of UGG boots to hold its annual meeting and classify the hedge fund’s board nominees so the company could avoid millions of dollars in financial penalties. […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund The Baupost Group LLC has acquired the biggest chunk of a $2.2 billion claim that two South Carolina utilities had against Toshiba Corp following the bankruptcy of its nuclear power subsidiary, people familiar with the matter said […]

(Pension & Investments) Australia’s Future Fund Tuesday reported a 0.8% investment gain for the Sept. 30 quarter, lifting the value of the sovereign wealth fund’s portfolio to A$134.5 billion ($105.2 billion). The latest gain trailed the fund’s 1.4% target return […]

(Bloomberg) Adam Levinson, of hedge fund manager Graticule Asset Management Asia, said China rolling out a yuan-denominated oil contract within the next two months will be a “wake up call” for investors who haven’t paid attention to the plans. The […]

(Bloomberg) The S&P 500 has reached almost 50 all-time highs in 2017. Since the start of September alone there have been almost 20 such peaks, which is more than the total number in the entire decade of the 2000s. To […]

(FINalternatives) Hermitage Capital’s William Browder has been unilaterally placed on Interpol’s wanted list by Russia, the latest twist in the hedge fund manager’s long-running battle with the Kremlin over the death of former Hermitage executive Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky, a lawyer […]

(CNBC) Intense price swings in cryptocurrencies are luring the highest-volume traders on Wall Street…..Proprietary trading firms, which bet their own capital in markets from stocks to futures, are wading into bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies… To read this article:

(New York Times) The venture capital fund taps a veteran of the start-up world as it looks to broaden its scope beyond Silicon Valley and China… To read this article:

(Harvest) At the end of August we shared an update on Argentina’s primary elections, Primarias Abiertas Simultáneas y Obligatorias (PASO), noting that the strong PASO results were a good sign for the current administration’s going into the October midterm elections […]

(Bloomberg) The technologies revolutionizing Wall Street have left Washington regulators playing a perpetual game of catch up. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Rudolf Bohli, the activist hedge-fund manager pushing for a breakup of Credit Suisse Group AG, said he’s in talks with more than 150 potential investors with the goal of raising 1 billion francs ($1.02 billion) for his campaign. To […]

(FINalternatives) Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital hedge fund has become the latest large alternative manager to slash fees to some investors amid disappointing performance in its main fund. To read this article: