WSJ – A House lawmaker whose Connecticut district is home to one of the highest concentrations of hedge funds introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would ban insider trading, taking aim at a financial crime that has tripped up some of […]

WSJ – A disagreement between Vivendi SA and one of its shareholders gathered pace on Tuesday, as a prominent U.S. hedge fund tried to rally support from other shareholders in its quest to obtain higher dividends, while Vivendi resisted. P. […]

Crain’s – Larry Robbins isn’t the first hedge-fund operator to see gold in McDonald’s real estate, but his timing is better. When William Ackman went public a decade ago with a restructuring proposal that would have leveraged the burger chain’s […]

WSJ – One of the lead managers at Armajaro Asset Management LLP, a London-based hedge fund that once purchased 7% of the world’s supply of cocoa, is stepping back from day-to-day management. John Tilney, 60, a former veteran of commodity […]

Bloomberg – Christopher Dennis, a prime broker with Deutsche Bank AG in London, is leaving after eight years to join a hedge-fund startup, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Dennis is joining the London-based firm being established […]

Business Insider – The Australian economy is basically the Chinese economy, and right now (and for a while going forward) that’s going to be a problem. Australia’s economy is driven by mining and exporting commodities, much of which are shipped […]

Quartz – A lot of people are trying to figure out what the future of music will look (sound?) like, and that now includes at least one heavy hitter on Wall Street. A New York-based hedge fund, P Schoenfeld Asset […]

Reuters – Hedge funds have turned super-bearish about U.S. oil prices as concerns about running out of storage trump the drop in the number of rigs drilling new wells. Money managers had amassed a record number of short positions in […]

CNBC – With the financial community abuzz over a looming interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, the smart money is betting big on the U.S. dollar instead of Treasurys. Instead of betting on the price of, say, 10-year U.S. […]

Bloomberg – Drugmakers are getting more and more nervous that hedge funds have found a way to make money by putting their patents in jeopardy. Taking advantage of new rules created by Congress three years ago, hedge funds have increasingly […]

NYT – Since marrying Chelsea Clinton five years ago, Marc Mezvinsky, a money manager, appears to have settled into his life as Bill and Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law. He has regularly appeared at charitable events, once introducing the former president at […]