(Reuters) David Kowitz has stepped back from his role leading Asia-focused hedge fund firm Indus Capital Partners, according to a recent public disclosure. The $5.7 billion New York-based fund noted in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Aug. […]

(Bloomberg) New York Life Insurance Co.’s MainStay Investments hired Ken Bossen to help build the exchange-traded fund operation that seeks to mimic hedge fund strategies. Bossen joined as director of ETF business development at the institutional intermediary division and will […]

(Bloomberg) Warnings embedded in strategist price targets and historically low U.S. stock volatility are doing little or nothing to dissuade hedge funds….. To read this article:

(Forbes) Bill Ackman and Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG +1.39% have a lot in common. After all, both have suffered a bruising 12-month stretch in which their futures came into serious question and many investors remain skeptical about a comeback. Ackman’s […]

(Bloomberg) A new way to bet against stocks is born. A few hours after Carson Block announced last Thursday that he was shorting St. Jude Medical Inc. stock over hacking risks to the company’s pacemakers and defibrillators, the e-mails started […]

(New York Post) The founder of New York-based iPayment is suing over his ouster, alleging a hedge fund engineered a boardroom coup as part of a plot to gain control of the company. Carl Grimstad claims the payment-processing company violated […]

(HITC Business) Bloomberg News reports that Deutsche Bank’s John Cryan and his top managers will meet this weekend to assess progress on the reorganization, said a person familiar with the matter. Deutsche Bank held talks over a potential merger with […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund managers and institutional investors feel performance is one of the key drivers of change in the industry at present, according to a survey by Preqin… Macro strategies are the highest performing top-level strategy in the past 12 […]

(Straits Times) An MBA or experience as a securities analyst will no longer take you to the front of the hiring line. But if you’re nimble with partial differential equations or wavelets, hedge funds want you. Hedge funds that have […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds and other speculators are taking the most bullish bets on U.S. natural gas in more than two years, data showed on Friday, as late summer heat suggested that utilities will continue burning large amounts of gas to […]

(CNBC) German pharmaceutical and crops manufacturer Bayer said on Monday that its negotiations with Monsanto had advanced, and it was now willing to offer more than $65 billion to acquire the world’s largest seed company. To read this article:

(The Business Insider) If you’ve seen the movie or read the book, you’ll know that shorting the housing market was difficult. Not only did the traders have to spot the oncoming crash, but they had to work through technical difficulties […]