Bloomberg – Porsche SE won home-court advantage in a $195 million dispute with a hedge fund as judges ruled a trial can take place in Stuttgart even though the carmaker omitted the zip code when it sent its lawsuit to […]

NYP – Billionaire hedgie Leon Cooperman told investors he is “embarrassed” about his hedge fund’s losses last year. But unfortunately, 2015 is looking even worse. Cooperman’s Omega Advisors, which fell 2.13 percent in 2014, is continuing its losing streak this […]

CNBC – Kenneth Griffin, whose Citadel hedge funds manage $24 billion in assets, said in a letter to investors Monday that he is approaching 2015 with “vigilance” in light of tumultuous market circumstances. “Market conditions remain uncertain,” wrote Griffin, founder […]

Bloomberg – Betting against market turbulence is losing its allure with hedge funds. That’s the signal from futures tied to the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, where the spread between long and short positions has jumped to the highest […]

Guardian – The files obtained through an international collaboration of news outlets, including the Guardian, the French daily Le Monde, BBC Panorama and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – reveal that HSBC’s Swiss private bank: • Routinely allowed […]

Dealbook – Until a few weeks ago, Jenna Dabbs was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, leading the charge in prosecuting some of the biggest and toughest drug kingpins in the world. Now, she’s working for the billionaire investor William A. […]

Opalesque – The hotly contested general election in the UK has attracted the attention of some of the top hedge funds as they start placing their bets in the coming May polls. Joseph Oughourlian, co-founder and portfolio manager at U.S.-based […]

Property Week – According to a report in the Financial Times, several hedge funds have taken out short positions against estate agents Foxtons and Savills, alongside online property group Zoopla, and London’s largest housebuilder Berkeley Group. The capital faces a […]

WSJ – The New York investment bank is looking to sell its 19% stake in the $17.5 billion London-based Lansdowne Partners LLP, according to people familiar with the matter. The attempted sale adds Morgan Stanley to a wave of banks […]

Forbes – At their core, hedge funds are processors of information and the product they sell is their ability to utilize information to make profitable trading decisions.  Analyzing a security from a pre-trade buying decision to the subsequent decision to sell […]

Forbes – Ad agency TV hit Mad Men plotted a number of Wall Street dramas including mergers, management buyouts, and bull and bear markets. But the hit AMC series never spoke to the hedge fund activists that are now storming […]

Reuters – Leda Braga, one of Europe’s best-known hedge fund managers, achieved a 9.5 percent return for her BlueTrend hedge fund in January, a strong start for her business that spun out of BlueCrest Capital Management last month. The gain […]