WSJ – A rough year for hedge funds turned more perilous as investors sold broad swaths of stock, including shares tied to pending takeover deals, after a closely watched merger hit the skids. Hedge funds have spent much of the […]

ValueWalk – The bottom in oil prices could be found once OPEC gets it act together, while the report warns investors to tread cautiously as third quarter numbers are released. As analysts scratch their head in regards to triggers for […]

Economic Times – Shire’s value plunged more than 20 per cent on Wednesday from around $49 billion to $39 billion, potentially wiping around $500 million from the value of Paulson’s stake and $270 million off Elliott Management’s stake, according to […]

Bloomberg – Hall Commodities LLP, a London-based $100 million hedge-fund firm run by Tony Hall and Arno Pilz, told clients it’s shutting down after less than two years in business, citing poor performance. The firm will return money to investors […]

WSJ – The recent turmoil in financial markets is upending some of the biggest hedge-fund trades of the year. A plunge in energy prices this month and a recent legal setback for managers making bets on shares of mortgage companies […]

Bloomberg – Weavering Capital (UK) Ltd. founder Magnus Peterson’s deliberate “dishonesty” caused the collapse of his $600 million hedge fund, U.K. prosecutors told a London court on the trial’s opening day. Peterson told investors he was following a low-risk strategy, […]

SFGate – Just an update on my post of last week that the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System was contemplating an investment in hedge funds. The retirement board tabled the proposal Oct. 8 after a news story that the fund’s […]

Telegraph – Did Crispin Odey count his chickens before they were hatched when he won planning permission to spend a six-figure sum on a temple to house 20 prize fowl at his Gloucestershire mansion? In a long-overdue update on “Cluckingham […]

Bloomberg – GLG Partners picked Neil Mason, a former executive at Harvard University’s endowment and BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, to help run a European equities hedge fund, a person briefed on the matter said. Mason will manage the $3 billion […]

The Straits Times – It isn’t a widely known fact but US hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates has managed some of the funds of sovereign wealth fund GIC for the past two decades. Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio was in town […]

MJ – As Democrats and Republicans battle for control of the Senate, hedge funds are dumping millions of dollars into congressional campaigns. Most of these companies are lining up behind one party or the other. But the second-biggest spender, Long […]

DealBeaker – There are lots of reasons why a prominent hedge fund manager might wish to beat a hasty retreat from Moscow. Perhaps he’s not comfortable with Russia’s liberation of all of those Ukrainians. Perhaps he failed to go along […]