(Bloomberg) Japan Post Bank Co. plans to spend an initial 100 billion yen ($916 million) directly buying stocks — when it finds the right opportunities. The nation’s second-largest bank by deposits, which currently invests in equities only through passive investments […]

(Citywire) A top exec at Brevan Howard has quit as the iconic hedge fund weighs up closing offices and cutting jobs. Jev Mehmet has resigned as chief operating officer and is currently working out a notice period, City A.M. understands. […]

(Bloomberg) It can be very lucrative to access exclusive corners of U.S. debt markets. For example, private corporate bonds and loans, which are typically made by direct lenders to small and mid-sized companies, pay higher yields, on average, than publicly […]

(CNBC) After a century-old paper mill in Brokaw, Wisconsin, closed a few years ago, the town of 250 residents effectively went bankrupt. Brokaw will soon be dissolved by its two neighboring towns. But it has found a new way to […]

(Bloomberg) Managers of active funds have been either incredibly prescient or unusually lucky. Either way, they find themselves heavily concentrated in the strongest part of the U.S. equity market.With more than half of their bets on high flyers like technology […]

(FINalternatives) San Francisco-based private equity fund of funds manager Asia Alternatives Management LLC is reportedly on track to close its fifth pool in October with around $1.5 billion in capital commitments. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Money is pouring into emerging-market hedge funds for the first time in two years. Investors added a net $800 million to funds focused on the category in the second quarter, the first inflows since the second quarter of 2015, […]

(Automated Trader) Hedge funds recorded positive net asset inflows totalling $5.0bn in Q2 2017, bringing total H1 2017 asset flows to $24.7bn. This marks a distinct contrast with 2016, which saw net industry outflows of $110bn across the year, although […]

(Opalesque) Total capital managed by Emerging Markets hedge funds increased to a record level for the fourth consecutive quarter through mid-year 2017, as a synchronized improvement in global growth and increased investor risk tolerance continued to drive gains across regional […]

(Bloomberg) Insurers got burned badly in the 2008 financial crisis. So almost a decade later, BlackRock Inc. scoured the industry’s $5 trillion in U.S. investments to figure out how they would fare if markets crash so hard again. The answer: […]

(Reuters) U.S. authorities on Monday charged Dawn Bennet, a former radio host, with fraudulently raising $20 million in a scam bearing the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme, while hoping to cast a “spell” to silence lawyers trying to investigate her. […]

(Hedge Fund Law Report) The possibility of a significant change to, or discontinuation of, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) has been discussed for some time. A recent speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, […]