Inside Philanthropy – The idea that effective school leadership on the part of principals is a key element in school reform and better student achievement appears to be catching on. Education researchers have been saying it for years, and a […]

Bloomberg – Gerald Kok, a former fund manager at Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG), plans to start a hedge fund that invests in Asian and U.S. companies going through corporate events such as mergers and divestments. GSK Global Fund will focus […]

WSJ – Boaz Weinstein, once one of Wall Street’s most successful traders, has seen assets at his hedge-fund firm shrink by half to $2.6 billion over the past year as he struggles with investment losses and client defections. Investors this […]

NewsWeek – Daniel Masters, a 50-year-old veteran commodities trader, started working for some of the largest companies in the world right out of university, trading in London, New York and Zug, Switzerland, for JPMorgan Chase and Phibro before moving on […]

Evening Standard – Pippa Middleton’s relationship is about to turn long-distance, with her stockbroker boyfriend quitting his job in the City to work for a hedge fund in Switzerland. Nico Jackson, who has been dating the duchess of Cambridge’s younger sister […]

China Money Network – Greater China-focused hedge funds produced their second consecutive month of positive returns, up 1.56% in June. Though they remain in the red with a negative return of 1.38% for the first half of the year, according […]

Bloomberg –  In the aftermath of Argentina’s semifinal World Cup win last night, crowds broke into the usual victory chants, praising the homeland and poking fun at the British, their longtime nemesis in the Falkland Islands. But a less traditional […]

Bloomberg – Boaz Weinstein, founder of hedge-fund firm Saba Capital Management LP, posted a 1.3 percent decline in June, his fifth straight monthly loss, as some investors exited the fund. The credit fund has lost 2.9 percent this year after […]

HITC – While you might not know their names now, you will. They are five hedge fund stars of the future as identified by Institutional Investor. They bet right on subprime, poached high-profile talent and helped shore up AOL when […]

Business Insider – Twenty years ago, one bond-trading hedge fund grew from launch to over $US100 billion in assets in less than three years. It saw yearly returns of over 40 per cent. It was run by finance veterans, PhDs, […]

Malaymail – Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer may have met his match. His Elliott Capital Advisors LP is in a face-off with Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. over a family-owned Hong Kong bank. OCBC is trying to buy Wing Hang Bank […]

USA Today – American Apparel (APP), the struggling maker of clothes until recently led by controversial founder and former CEO Dov Charney, got a new thread of life after hedge fund Standard General said it will give $25 million in […]