(BloombergView) There are a lot of creative and amusing investment frauds in the world, but there is one great simple investment fraud, one original source from which all the others developed:Tell people that you have a risk-free investment that will […]

(Bloomberg) In recent months, venture capital firms and mutual funds have become choosier about which technology startups they’re prepared to back. Now hedge funds, after helping push valuations to dot-com-era heights, are getting more picky, too. Last month, hedge funds […]

(FINalternatives) Spinnaker Capital managing director Bradley Wickens is leaving Spinnaker Capital to form his own company. Wickens is a portfolio manager and founding member of the London-based company’s management team. Spinnaker manages approximately $1.7 billion focused primarily on emerging markets, […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds may have taken too big a bite of Apple Inc (AAPL.O).Shares of the iPhone maker are one of the biggest bets among hedge funds, with 47 of them listing Apple among their ten largest holdings as of […]

(Forbes) A new London startup is using alternative data sources to provide a boost to financial managers. Eagle Alpha is taking information and large data sets from a variety of sources ranging from posts on Twitter to collections of satellite […]

(Hartford Business News) Yahoo’s biggest adversary just showed Marissa Mayer its nuclear option. Making good on its threats, hedge fund Starboard Value called for the removal of Yahoo’s entire nine-member board on Thursday. The move is a significant escalation in […]

(Dealbreaker.com) Having learned at the feet of one of the all-time greats, Raj Rajaratnam, in his early 20s, Owen Li was prepared to succeed well beyond his tender years when he decided to hang out his own shingle as a […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds are crowding into U.S. Treasuries, and that has bond traders bracing for more turbulence.While the Federal Reserve doesn’t break out hedge-fund ownership, a group seen as a proxy increased its holdings to a record $1.27 trillion in […]

(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds threw in the towel on short positions in agricultural commodities at one of the fastest paces on record, in many cases realising losses – although ironically raising questions about market strength to come. Managed money, a proxy […]

(Harvest) In the past we have discussed how to combine value and momentum strategies to improve an equity allocation. In this piece we discuss why an investor should combine use value and momentum. To read this article:

(Reuters) Airline caterer Gategroup on Monday renominated a board member it had sought to oust and said its chairman would quit next year, handing partial victory to hedge funds pushing the company to shake up leadership and change strategy.The Swiss […]