Telegraph.co.uk – One of the world’s biggest hedge funds is betting against Saga in the wake of the company’s high-profile flotation that has left hundreds of thousands of private investors out of pocket. GLG Partners, which is part of Man […]

Fool.com – The latest 13F season is here, when many money managers issue required reports on their holdings. It can be worthwhile to pay attention, as you might get an investment idea or two by seeing what some major investors […]

StamfordAdvocate.com – Connecticut may not be the world’s capital of hedge funds, but it’s not far off — literally or figuratively. The state has the third-most hedge funds managing more than $1 billion in assets, trailing only New York and […]

Financial Times – Hedge funds that specialise in anticipating central bank policy have ramped up their bets that the euro will fall as markets price in aggressive action from the European Central Bank to weaken the single currency. So-called global […]

Bloomberg – Once a quarter, Citigroup Inc. strategist Tobias Levkovich pulls a David Letterman and creates a Top 10 list of equity holdings at the biggest hedge funds and mutual funds. The latest study could arguably be titled “Top 10 […]

CNN Money – Situated on the 46th floor of a gleaming office tower in lower Manhattan, Mike Winston is running his hedge fund empire. Missing is the sleek trading floor with its supercharged technology and legions of shouting traders. Picture […]

WSJ.com – Swiss money manager GAM Holding AG GAM.EB +1.81% is in advanced negotiations to acquire a New Jersey hedge-fund firm, the latest example of growing interest in alternative investments among large firms. GAM, with about $129 billion under management, […]

efinancialnews.com – Mark Derbyshire, a partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management, has left to join a rival hedge fund. Derbyshire, a senior lawyer at TCI who had been at the London-based firm for almost […]

Washington Post – Obscure laws can have a very big impact on social policy, including obscure changes in the United States federal tax code. The 2001 Consolidated Appropriations Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton, included […]

Financial Times – A prominent backer of commodities hedge funds is shutting down after investors frustrated by market doldrums and high management fees took their money elsewhere. Schroders’ Opus commodities fund, which contained $2.3bn at its peak, is closing after […]

Slate.com – The Obama administration could disable one of the most powerful sources of wealth and income inequality in our country. Yet no one ever mentions it as a possibility. Don’t they know? There have always been disparities in income, […]

The Guardian – Hedge funds, those financial funds run by extraordinarily rich men, are going mainstream. Not content to be investments for just the super rich and super connected, they are starting to offer services to the average investor. A […]