WSJ – Many big hedge funds that invest in Russia and the surrounding region have suffered steep losses amid escalating tensions in Ukraine. With their flexibility to bet for and against stocks and bonds, hedge funds typically trumpet their ability […]

Globe And Mail – Getting hit by a truck might have been the best thing to ever happen to Ari Shiff. “I couldn’t trade,” he says. It was the 1990s, and he’d just moved to Vancouver, already several time zones […]

The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for April 2014 measured -0.59%. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.94% in May. “Subscriptions outpaced redemptions by 2 to 1, whereas […]

FN – The mutual recognition scheme that will allow Hong Kong to become a gateway to the whole of China has stirred interest among international hedge funds. Eyeing the country’s untapped $6.6 trillion retail savings market, several major hedge fund […]

Reuters – Steadview, an India-focused hedge fund seeded by Goldman Sachs (Asia) chairman Mark Schwartz, has made 12 times the returns of peers with bets on consumer and tech stocks, helping the fund grow its assets to $500 million in […]

Bloomberg – If your grandmother wants to bet her savings on a bundle of credit derivatives, it’ll be easy for her to do so through a new swath of exchange-traded funds. The ETFs may not have been created with her […]

Forbes – Fads are nothing new—they come and they go. We’re drawn to THE new trendy and hot restaurant, bar, travel destination, fashion—whatever is of the moment. And this extends to the right place to invest our money. Financial fads […]

Forbes – Are the pros pushing the peers out of peer to peer lending? These hot marketplaces that let people act like banks, lending extra cash to people who need it, have been growing in popularity over the last few […]

Coin Report – This week, a new bitcoin hedge fund called Coin Capital Management will be launching. The fund will buy and hold onto the digital currency in a grade A institutional environment. Managing partner and founder of the New […]

Forbes – Dam McCrum over at FT Alphaville has a look at why the top hedge fund managers are making so much darn money. I don’t disagree with anything he says I just want to pick up on a point […]

Gulf News – Tony Blair, Francis Ford Coppola and Mary Schapiro are just a few of the many high-profile names descending on Salt this week, the Las Vegas conference billed as the must-attend hedge fund event of the year. The […]

CNBC – One of the world’s largest hedge fund firms inside one of the world’s largest banks is stalling, underscoring the challenges faced by other increasingly large money managers. JPMorgan Chase’s asset management unit’s majority purchase of Highbridge Capital Management in […]