Business Insider – Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer — the CEO of $25 billion Elliott Management — defended the hedge fund compensation structure, suggesting that bankers are the ones investors should be upset about. Since the financial crisis, hedge […]

Independent – A spotlight has been thrown on the Conservative Party’s close links with the hedge fund industry, as new research showed that around half of the wealthiest fund managers in Britain have given money to the Tory party, and […]

Telegraph – The cheap tracker funds that anyone can buy will make you more money than hedge funds available only to the seriously wealthy, according to Warren Buffett. And the world’s most famous investor has put his money where his […]

Half of Britain’s richest hedge-fund millionaires have given cash to the Conservative Party, new figures have revealed. Of the 59 wealthiest City managers, 27 have ploughed £19million into the Tories’ election war-chest – with £10million flowing into the party’s coffers […]

Forbes – It may be 2015, but hedge funds are revisiting 1990s-era merger ideas like a marriage of Staples and Office Depot. Only, instead of reflecting the heady, ‘stock is toilet paper’ zeitgeist of that decade, the new crop of deals […]

Economic Times – Culture Machine, a startup building a network of channels on internet, has raised $18 million (Rs 111 crore) from hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Zodius Capital and Times Internet. The deal, which marks the […]

BusinessInsider – Despite having Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein as an investor and being Bill and Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky (and two former colleagues from Goldman Sachs who manage Eaglevale Partners hedge fund) told investors in a letter sent […]

Reuters – The UK’s West Midlands Pension Fund is in the process of withdrawing its hedge fund allocations of just over 200 million pounds ($300 million), becoming the latest institution to end the use of these relatively expensive and complex […]

DealBreaker – It’s been 10 years since the Russian president decided he didn’t want hedge-fund manager William Browder around anymore—before he changed his mind and asked Interpol to have him arrested and returned to him for what would have undoubtedly […]

Bloomberg – Roland Thng is seeking to shake up Singapore’s staid corporate landscape, setting up a new hedge fund focused exclusively on influencing the way locally listed companies are run. The 33-year-old has established EVA Capital SP with US$5 million […]

Reuters – Hedge fund titan Paul Singer blamed government policies for encouraging traders to make concentrated bets in “overpriced” securities and markets and said it is “nutty” to hold bonds at their current high levels. Singer, who founded the $25 […]

Bloomberg – It’s easy to see why doubters of China’s world-beating equity rally are growing louder. Manufacturing contracted last month for the first time in two years, industrial profits are falling at the fastest pace since at least 2011 and […]