(The Washington Post) When Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital launched a 15-year battle to wrestle billions out of Argentina for lapsed debt payments, it wasn’t the first time the hedge fund had taken on a foreign government.But few engagements have turned […]

(Harvest) Almost all good companies go through many rounds of funding to pursue innovation and growth as well as accommodate demand from investors that want in on a great deal. I recently spoke on a panel where the topic came […]

(CNBC) When it comes to the most hated stocks on Wall Street, one investment officer says some of the animosity may be misguided. Out of the S&P 500 stocks with the highest short interest as a percentage of float, names […]

(The Telegraph) It is not just the punters that flocked to the Cheltenham Festival that have profited at William Hill’s expense. One of the City’s biggest hedge funds is also in line for windfall thanks to the beleaguered bookmaker, after […]

(Hedge Fund Law Report) In its 14th annual comprehensive Alternative Investment Survey, Deutsche Bank Global Prime Finance (DB) compiled information from 504 global hedge fund allocators that manage over $2 trillion in aggregate hedge fund assets – more than two-thirds […]

(Bloomberg) The Japanese region hit by the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl has a new backer.“I’m now the biggest institutional investor in Fukushima,” says Curtis Freeze, New Yorker, hedge fund head and former missionary. The 53-year-old, who oversees $352 million […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds and other money managers have amassed a near-record number of bullish bets on increasing oil prices, helping push the main international benchmark well above $40 per barrel.By the close of business on March 22, money managers held […]

(Bloomberg) A former managing director at PJT Partners Inc.’s Park Hill Group was arrested and charged with scheming to defraud investors, including a charitable foundation, of more than $95 million.Andrew Caspersen, 39, stole the money through phony private equity investments […]

(Business Day) After spending two years in incubation to build up some credibility in the market, asset manager Ashburton Investments will introduce its first hedge fund to a wider investment market this week. Created and managed by a group of […]

(New York Post) Sure Bill Ackman gets a lot of ink and a lot of criticism as one of the largest investors behind the crisis-ridden Valeant Pharmaceuticals. But another activist investment firm with a much larger role in Valeant’s activities […]

(Daily Alts)Liquid alternatives struggled in 2015, but few asset classes didn’t. Excluding the “FANG” stocks – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google – even the S&P 500 lost ground last year, and while most liquid alts categories posted losses, every strategy […]

(Daily Alts) In this video, Steve Gerbel explains merger arbitrage by making an analogy to air travel: “They say the safest place for an airplane is in the hangar, but that’s not what airplanes are for,” he says. When we […]