The Street – Recently, Goldman Sachs released their quarterly Hedge Fund Trend Monitor report. To compile the report, Goldman analyzed 775 hedge funds with $1.9 trillion of gross equity positions ($1.4 trillion long and $666 billion short) at the start […]

Telesur – Conservative Brazilian presidential candidate Aecio Neves announced on Wednesday that he would tap a former hedge fund manager as his finance minister should he win the country’s upcoming election. Neves said during Wednesday night’s televised presidential debate with President […]

Singapore: Hedge funds investing in India have become the world’s best performers this year on expectations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will revive Asia’s third- largest economy. The funds investing in the South Asian nation have returned 26% this year […]

P&I – Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System, Springfield, plans to deploy a total of at least $1 billion with real estate and hedge fund managers in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. Trustees of the $45.3 billion pension fund approved […]

Reuters – Former Brevan Howard star trader Chris Rokos has stepped up his legal challenge to a partnership agreement imposing a five-year ban on him setting up in competition against the hedge fund firm he co-founded. The contractual dispute offers […]

Reuters – CME Group Inc., the world’s largest futures exchange operator, said it halted trading on its electronic platform for four hours on Monday [Aug. 25] because of a technical issue resulting from planned software reconfigurations. CME, which owns the […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds investing in India have become the world’s best performers this year on expectations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will revive Asia’s third-largest economy. The funds investing in the South Asian nation have returned 26 percent this […]

USA Today – RadioShack shares soared Tuesday when it appeared that the electronic retailers may be plugging into a lifeline. The electronics retailer is talking to a shareholder, hedge fund Standard General, about a rescue package that could prevent a […]

Hedge World – Junk-bond ETFs created for retail investors have been hijacked by hedge funds using them to make broad bets on bond prices, causing roller-coaster distortions in the high-yield market. Funds designed for retail investors have morphed into hedging […]

MIT Tech – A former associate dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his son have pleaded guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of justice after allegedly losing $140 million of investors’ money in hedge funds. Gabriel Bitran PhD […]

WSJ – A group of hedge funds holding €1.3 billion ($1.71 billion) of Argentine government bonds has filed suit against the U.S. bank charged with overseeing payments to the nation’s bond investors, seeking to gain access to interest payments they […]

Bloomberg – Zinc and nickel will probably lead advances in base metals next year as global demand outstrips production, according to Paul Crone, chief investment officer at Citrine Capital Management LLC. Futures climbed. Zinc may rally to $2,500 to $2,700 […]