(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds returned to extending their bearish bets on agricultural commodities, led by corn, in which wet Midwest weather is supporting US yield prospects, and sugar, helping drive prices to a six-year low. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, […]

(Bloomberg) Eric Rosenfeld is aware of risks that threaten the financial system. As co-founder of Long-Term Capital Management he witnessed first-hand in 1998 when the hedge fund’s trades backfired and required the Federal Reserve to orchestrate a bailout by Wall […]

(Reuters) A flood of money chasing cheaper and more retail investor-friendly hedge fund strategies could reverse if poor market liquidity ends up hitting returns, attendees at a hedge funds conference said on Tuesday. Discussing the so called “liquid alternatives” sector […]

(Bloomberg) Asia-focused hedge funds beat equity markets in May with profitable China bets just as the nation’s share market rally began to slow. Pine River Capital Management, Springs Capital (Hong Kong) and Legends Asset Management were among those whose returns […]

(Wall Street Journal) Hedge-fund Citadel LLC is preparing to roll out a new stand-alone stock-picking division, the latest sign of the Chicago firm’s postcrisis resurgence. To Read this Article: www.wallstreetjournal.com

(Bloomberg) In the fight between a foreign hedge fund and the biggest conglomerate in South Korea, the state-run pension may have the swing vote. It will probably side with Samsung Group for reasons that go beyond nationalism. Korea’s National Pension […]

(Bloomberg) Yip Ka-hay, a former SAC Capital Advisors manager now running his own macro hedge fund, is shorting the euro against the Japanese currency. The euro may slide below $1.08 in the next few months — from above $1.13 now […]

(Forbes) The Nasdaq has gained 20% in the past year, but which tech stock should you invest? The world’s richest hedge fund billionaires can perhaps give you a hint. To compile this list, we looked at the trades of billionaire […]

(Bloomberg) Asia’s hedge funds boosted their assets to a record $177 billion in May by riding a Chinese stocks rally that’s now starting to falter. Investments by funds with an Asia mandate exceeded the $176 billion in December 2007, before […]

(Reuters) The hedge fund industry set a new record during the first quarter when an industry research group said 10,149 funds are operating around the world even after hundreds of existing funds shut their doors during the same time. During […]

(Bloomberg) For four years a hedge fund urged one of Japan’s oldest companies to raise its dividend, and each time the answer in public was no. Behind the scenes, something else was happening. Though it lost every proxy fight, the […]

(CNBC) Ever since the Greek financial crisis broke out in October 2010, hedge funds have played it as a formidable money spinner. They were able to do that because they understood what most analysts could not fathom in an ill-tempered, […]