MSNBC – Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief, talks with Rachel Maddow about the relentless series of ethics and spending questions that dogged Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock, until his resignation today, including new questions about the number of travel […]

Reuters – Former Brevan Howard star trader Chris Rokos has hired former Goldman Sachs co-head of Asia Pacific macro trading, Stuart Riley, as he gears up for one of Europe’s most high-profile 2015 hedge fund launches. Rokos, who made $4 […]

WSJ – The euro’s plunge has given a much-needed lift to hedge funds that have been repeatedly frustrated by the world’s central banks. A bevy of multibillion-dollar funds have gained as much as 9% this year as their managers bet […]

BusinessInsider – Charter Schools are drawing promoters from a place you might not think of: Walmart. The Walton Family Foundation — the philanthropic group run by the Walmart family — sponsored a symposium at the Harvard Club for investors interested […]

CoStar – In a sign that Wall Street investors may once again be ready to place their bets on Las Vegas real estate, activist shareholder Land and Buildings is calling on Paradise, NV-based MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) to split […]

WSJ – Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of the New York-based SkyBridge Capital, has never been shy about publicity. So it should come as no surprise that he and his firm are among the first to test the lifting of the […]

Telegraph – A New York hedge fund has bought up a large chunk of the £430m in senior bonds in Phones 4U that were rendered almost worthless by the controversial collapse of the retailer last year. It is understood that […]

CNBC – A single bad currency bet has caused one of the largest and longest-standing private investors in emerging markets to collapse. Everest Capital—a 25-year-old hedge fund firm that counted George Soros and Nelson Peltz as early backers and has […]

Reuters – Former Brevan Howard star trader Chris Rokos has hired former Goldman Sachs co-head of Asia Pacific macro trading, Stuart Riley, as he gears up for one of Europe’s most high-profile 2015 hedge fund launches. Rokos, who made $4 […]

MarketWatch – The euro’s plunge has given a much-needed lift to hedge funds that have been repeatedly frustrated by the world’s central banks. A bevy of multibillion-dollar funds has gained as much as 9% this year as their managers bet […]

Guardian – Alliance Trust is facing a new battle over strategy and governance as activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors pushes for the appointment of three new directors to the board of the Dundee-based investment group. Elliott, which owns 12% of […]

Bloomberg – GCI Systematic Macro Fund, which earned 167 percent on Japanese government bond futures in 13 months, is scanning computer models to profit further as global monetary policy diverges. The hedge fund employs a computerized global macro strategy to […]