Reuters – Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, boosted his stake in Kabel Deutschland Holding AG (KD8) to become one of its biggest shareholders days before a deadline for investors to decide whether they’d accept Vodafone Group Plc (VOD)’s takeover […]

NASDAQ – It all started 10 years ago when Bill Ackman’s first hedge fund was imploding. Ackman reluctantly turned to fellow hedge fund manager Carl Icahn for help. What has followed is a decade of warring that has now culminated […]

Bloomberg – Alistair Lumsden, who stepped down as head of a $2.3 billion hedge fund focused on asset-backed securities at CQS U.K. LLP last year, is starting his own firm, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Lumsden, 44, […]

Yahoo – Pressure from disappointed investors is forcing hedge funds to roll back their fees, putting the standard charge of 2% of assets under management and 20% of investment profits on the endangered list. Until a few years ago, most […]

Risk.net – The current legal and political wrangling surrounding Detroit’s long-awaited decline into bankruptcy may outweigh opportunities for hedge funds to gain exposure to the city’s debt. The July 18 announcement that the city of Detroit, Michigan, would file for […]

Pensions & Investments – Frank Frecentese was named global head of hedge fund research by Lyxor Asset Management, confirmed Mehdi Aliouat, a company spokesman. Mr. Frecentese is based in Lyxor’s New York office and reports to Lionel Erdely and Nicolas Gaussel, co-chief investment officers. […]

Forbes – When Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital accepted defeat and unloaded its stake in JC Penney last week it might have seemed like the department store chain would have one fewer hedge fund breathing down its neck. That, however, is not […]

law 360 – A New York federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing two former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers of deceiving Bank of America NA into entering into a costly, failed transaction, ruling Tuesday that the bank couldn’t prove […]

FS – Investment research house Lonsec has highlighted unintended consequences of ASIC’s proposed new rules affecting hedge funds, which could see investors increase the risk in their portfolios. ASIC Regulatory Guide 240, which was released in September 2012, aimed to […]

MarketWatch – Our database of 13F filers comes in handy for identifying stocks which are widely owned by the hedge funds and other investors we track. This is also true for a number of areas, including heavily shorted stocks. Using […]

BusinessInsider – We maintain open contact with over 40 different brokers in various markets. Every day, these guys send me hundreds of emails and text messages over bloomberg telling me as much as they legally can about what kind of flows […]