Reuters – Investor requests to pull money out from hedge funds dropped to a nine-month low in October, new data released on Monday showed. The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator, a snapshot of hedge fund clients giving notice to withdraw […]

The Star – When it came to figuring out how to get some of North America’s biggest billionaire hedge fund managers to support their unusual fundraiser for The Hospital for Sick Children, two Bay Street whiz kids discovered the best […]

Bloomberg – Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s asset management unit agreed to back Hong Kong-based hedge fund startup Trilogy Partners Ltd., said a person with knowledge of the matter. The capital will be provided by the bank’s hedge-fund seeding team, said […]

WSJ – Farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who shipped more than $20 million worth of guar beans last year to the nation’s only guar processing plant, which is now in bankruptcy, have struck a deal with the plant’s majority owner, […]

NYP – At least one prominent hedge fund mogul who played the now-busted $55 billion AbbVie-Shire deal got out in the nick of time, The Post has learned. Eric Mindich, one of a handful of hedgies who cut their trading […]

WSJ – Sears Holdings Corp. received an injection of $169 million from its CEO Edward Lampert ’s hedge fund this week, as the fund bought some of the struggling department store company’s shares in Sears Canada. The funds come as […]

CNBC – Hedge funds are on course for their worst year since 2011, as several of their biggest and most popular trades turned sour and some managers were forced to cut their losses. Wednesday’s new and sudden fall in US […]

Forbes – Billionaire John Paulson, who initially made his fortune betting against subprime mortgage bonds, has been one of the most aggressive hedge fund managers to bet on stocks that would benefit from the tax-driven inversion deal wave that has […]

Bloomberg – Village Capital Pte, run by a former manager at Tiedemann Investment Group, is seeking to raise 10 billion yen ($94 million) by the end of 2015 for a new Japan-focused hedge fund that will be run out of […]

Bloomberg View – Never has techland felt the influence of activist investors so acutely, with a Who’s Who of hedge-fund luminaries transforming the investing landscape. Jesse Cohn of Elliott Management is pushing EMC to spin off VMWare. Dan Loeb reshaped […]

Reuters – The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) confirmed its ban on Hong Kong-based hedge fund Factorial Capital Management Ltd on Thursday, saying the fund had not been able to disprove insider trading charges levelled against it earlier […]

Bloomberg – Companies with the highest hedge-fund ownership are leading the U.S. market selloff, with stocks from Ally Financial Inc. to Zynga Inc. retreating twice as fast as other shares over the last month. The 10 companies in the Russell 1000 Index in which […]