Forbes – For billionaire Daniel Och’s hedge fund firm, Och-Ziff Capital Management, 2013 was a pretty good year.  The publicly-traded hedge fund firm saw its assets under management balloon to $40.6 billion from $31.9 billion a year ago. Helped by rich performance […]

WSJ – A trader who made more than $100 million from a $10 million bet against gold. A hedge fund that gained 42% after a bullish wager on stocks. A firm that saw returns of 48% thanks in part to […]

Boston Globe (Editorial) – The MBTA Retirement Fund does not hold public meetings or publish minutes, and it’s fighting a law the governor signed last summer to make its records public. This is a staggering show of arrogance, as the […]

UPI – Bread-and-butter mutual funds beat the bells-and-whistles hedge fund portfolios on Wall Street this year, data show. They may be drab, but the basic, across-the-board stocks handily out-performed those complex bets that hedge funds can’t seem to get enough […]

Investment Europe – Projections from S&P Dow Jones Indices suggest that if current trends continue, then the total amount of capital invested in ETFs will overtake the total invested in hedge funds in 2014. Tim Edwards, director of Index Investment […]

Yorkshire Post – James Caird Asset Management (JCAM), the hedge fund founded by City trader and racehorse owner Tim Leslie, has acquired business parks in Leeds and Birmingham after agreeing a £43m funding facility with Royal Bank of Scotland. A […]

CNBC – Billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors returned 20.1 percent this year, delivering some of the industry’s best returns, even as his hedge fund pleaded guilty to insider trading charges and prepared to return outside capital. The […]

Reuters – Commodity hedge fund Higgs Capital Management, founded by two former bank commodity executives, will wind down and return money to investors as it faces headwinds raising money, joining other commodity funds that closed this year. The fund will […]

Sunday Times – Staff at one of Britain’s top hedge funds have shared a £317m payout despite a bust-up that led to the departure of one of its star managers and co-founders. Jeremy Hosking is believed to have pocketed about […]

WSJ – Chinese funds focused on the nation’s domestic stocks are increasingly looking to hedge their bets. While short selling, or betting that a stock’s price will fall, remains uncommon in China because of the high cost of borrowing stocks, […]

Kiplinger – If you’re looking for double-digit income, Pakistan has a deal for you. A model of geopolitical instability and down to its last $4 billion or so in foreign reserves, the sanctuary of the late Osama bin Laden has […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds increased bullish bets on crude oil to the highest in three months as stockpiles dropped and the U.S. economy expanded more than forecast. Money managers raised net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices for West Texas Intermediate crude, by […]