Venture Capital Post – Hengistbury Investment Partners has acquired a 5.2% stake in UK-based events and publishing firm UBM, according City AM. Hengistbury is the hedge fund established in 2011 by Stuart Partners, former senior partner at The Children’s Investment […]

Hedge funds just keep getting larger and larger. Too bad their returns aren’t. Money invested in these high-octane investment vehicles surged 17% to a record $2.6 trillion in 2013, according to a report from Hedge Fund Research Inc. But Hedge […]

Winton Capital Management, the fourth largest European hedge fund by assets under management, is planning to open a U.S. office in the summer, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is part of a broader global expansion that […]

(Reuters) – ParFX, a currency trading platform launched to curb the advantage of high-frequency traders, will allow hedge funds to join banks in its trade to increase liquidity and create a wider trading community. The platform, featuring technology to level […]

Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen is again fighting with a group of hedge funds that hold LightSquared’s bank debt, this time over which side should be providing a short-term bankruptcy loan to keep LightSquared afloat. In a Thursday filing […]

Kansas City Star – Third Point LLC, the hedge fund founded by activist investor Dan Loeb, bought a stake in wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc., betting that the company could be acquired by Sprint Corp. or Dish Network Corp. Third […]

Bloomberg – Third Point, the hedge fund led by billionaire Daniel Loeb, took a stake in Dow Chemical and called for a spinoff of its petrochemicals business to improve profitability. Third Point’s stake in Dow is its largest current investment, […]

MJ – The offices of the world’s first water-focused hedge fund overlook a parking lot in a subdivided landscape developers call the Golden Triangle. The neighborhood gets its water from the Alvarado Water Treatment Plant, run by San Diego’s Public […]

47/Wall St – Shares of struggling electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) were up more than 16 percent on Wednesday on news that a hedge-fund manager who likes investing in troubled companies has taken an 8.1 percent stake in the […]

Bloomberg –  Managers of long-only funds in Singapore that invest mainly in Asian stocks are winning client money, shrugging off difficulties in raising capital faced by smaller hedge funds in the region. Assets under management of such funds in the city-state […]

CNN – Hedge funds just keep getting larger and larger. Too bad their returns aren’t. Money invested in these high-octane investment vehicles surged 17% to a record $2.6 trillion in 2013, according to a report from Hedge Fund Research Inc. […]