Bloomberg – Hedge funds cut bullish bets on gold futures by the most in a month as holdings of physical bullion in exchange-traded funds dropped to the lowest since 2009. Money managers’ net-long position contracted for the second time in […]

Investing.com – Intralinks and Opalesque commissioned a study to determine how much transparency institutional investors want, how often, and why. Intralinks is now out with a report on the results. In the period February-March 2014 the surveyors received more than […]

CNBC – The financial world’s piñata may have been broken, and it looks like it’s raining treats. Anthony Scaramucci, the SkyBridge Capital founder and face of the SALT hedge fund conference, which wrapped Friday in Las Vegas, once famously asked […]

Bloomberg – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in General Motors in the first quarter and some hedge funds including Greenlight Capital Inc. exited completely as the company recalled a record number of vehicles. Berkshire reduced its GM holdings […]

Reuters – From Asian Internet stocks, which have boomed over the last year, to food and paper products companies, prominent hedge fund investors listed their favorite stocks on Thursday at an industry meeting dominated by talk of where markets will […]

MarketWatch – Somehow the huge jump in Indian stocks probably isn’t doing a whole lot for you. I can almost hear our readers say wistfully, “if only we could vote in a new government.” Instead, all we get in the […]

Reuters – Top U.S. hedge fund managers had mixed feelings about General Motors in the first quarter as the automaker’s shares fell 15.8 percent, with some increasing their holdings and others going so far as to sell their entire stakes. […]

Reuters – Top hedge funds shed their stakes in high-profile Internet names such as Netflix Inc and Groupon Inc in the first quarter, moving to peers viewed as more mature and less volatile. High-growth Internet software and biotech companies were […]

Institutional Investor – The largest hedge fund firms and their investors have something of a love-hate relationship. On the one hand, the growing ranks of institutions pouring money into hedge funds and other alternative investments prefer firms with deep benches, […]

NYT – Hedge fund managers don’t use the carried interest tax loophole. They need something more exotic. Hedge fund managers, after all, have a lot of income to shelter. According to Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine, the top 25 hedge fund […]

MarketWatch – Investors prefer smaller, more nimble hedge funds, but that hasn’t stopped them from pouring money into the biggest hedge funds in the world, according to Institutional Investor. So far this year, the world’s 100 largest hedge funds managed […]

NYT – Behind the dancing fountains of the Bellagio Hotel, hedge fund titans mingled with wealth managers at the Hyde nightclub on Tuesday night. Hands were shaken and business cards were exchanged as waitresses in tiny red dresses strutted about […]