ValueWalk – The Alaska Retirement Management Board is weighing in on Calipers decision to exit hedge funds, saying CalPERS is close to being a “perfect contrary indicator.” When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) loudly exited their hedge fund […]

WSJ – British insurer Aviva PLC will shutter a U.S.-based hedge-fund arm by the end of the year after a major client asked for its money back, according to people familiar with the matter. The Aviva unit, a so-called fund […]

Forbes – A Dallas hedge fund manager has sued the Securities & Exchange Commission in an attempt to get one-and-a-half boxes of files that securities regulators collected while investigating him and his hedge fund firm. Harlow Capital Management, a hedge […]

Bloomberg – The FBI files spell it out: An analyst at Citadel LLC, the hedge fund with $23 billion in capital invested globally, told agents he made millions of dollars trading on information from a company insider. It was December […]

NYT – The stock market has been rising for years, hitting new highs almost every week. So how is it that one of Wall Street’s most bearish investors can claim to have profited strongly over this period? Universa Investments, a […]

Valuewalk – As Apple is at the list of Goldman Sachs’ Very Important Positions list, it also tops the list of what the firm’s analysts say is the 50 stocks that “matter most” to hedge funds. In their latest report, […]

Huff Post – Long before the 2008 financial collapse, the American economic landscape had shifted, plunging the country into something of an identity crisis. Manufacturing was down, far less tangible industries were up. Income inequality and nostalgia for a time […]

Providence Journal – For reasons that remain unexplained, the state Investment Commission, headed by Governor-elect Gina Raimondo, went behind closed doors last Wednesday to “review” a hedge fund in which it has $61.7 million of the state’s pension dollars invested: […]

Forbes – Hedge fund managers are generally taxed on much of their income at an income rate of 55 percent. So when they can – using bright line strategies – lower their tax bill, they often consider these transactions. There […]

WSJ – Hedge funds are betting that some of the largest U.S. coal companies are heading for the financial slag heap. The coal industry is in a prolonged slump with a long list of causes topped by sluggish demand and […]

Barron’s – There have been headlines almost daily about hedge funds’ poor performance and hefty fees. The funds, which typically levy a 2% management fee and take 20% of returns, have gained less than 3% in 2014, versus a 12.3% […]

FIN – Japan’s GCI Investment is setting up shop in London. GCI chief investment officer Naruhisa Nakagawa, business development manager Osamu Saito and a third employee will move from GCI’s Singapore office to the UK this week, reports AsianInvestor, joining […]