WSJ – Sprint Corp. S +0.37% and T-Mobile TMUS +0.44% US Inc. haven’t yet announced their plans to merge but they already have an influential shareholder on board: billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson. Paulson & Co. played a prominent […]

Risk.net – Addressing common institutional approaches to long-only emerging markets allocations, hedge funds are less volatile and produce higher returns than mutual funds or ETFs Since the 2008 financial crisis, investors have flocked to emerging markets (EMs) for return generation […]

Reuters – Bernard Madoff’s sons created accounts out of thin air and engineered sham loans to buy pricey Manhattan real estate as they diverted tens of millions of dollars of money from their father’s firm, a court-appointed trustee said on […]

NYT – The real lesson from the ouster of Dov Charney at American Apparel is the danger of arbitration clauses. That may not seem obvious given the bitter battle for control of the retailer and the accusations of sexual harassment. […]

Bloomberg – When Ahmad Zuaiter started a frontier-markets hedge fund, the former Soros Fund Management LLC money manager chose Dubai over New York and London. Zuaiter’s Jadara Capital Partners LP and VY Capital Management Co. Ltd. opened in the emirate […]

ETF – Fixed-income strategies, especially long-dated bonds, are currently a tough sell in today’s environment when rates look likely to be heading higher. Some investors, including hedge fund manager George Schultze, are preparing for rates to move higher by buying […]

Investing.com – Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) is set to report FQ2 2014 earnings before the market opens on Wednesday, July 16th. Most analysts predicted a contraction in earnings from a majority of the banks this earnings season including Bank […]

Detroit Free Press – Several hedge funds are betting they can profit from Detroit’s bankruptcy, snapping up more than $750 million of the city’s distressed debt. The New York-based hedge funds — whose investments in Detroit debt were first reported […]

Dallas News – There are plenty of new hedge fund managers trying to make a name for themselves on Wall Street. Then there are two 20-something money managers who are building their firm from scratch from an office in Fort […]

Birmingham Business Journal – A former Sterne Agee broker has been accused of allegedly failing to disclose a side business where he ran a $6 million hedge fund. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. filed a complaint last week alleging […]

AW – The UK government said over the weekend it would stiffen laws governing foreign takeovers of British companies, potentially raising new hurdles for overseas acquirers amid heightened interest in British companies as takeover targets, Peter Evans of the Wall […]