City AM – The CO-OP Bank is preparing for a showdown with distressed debt investors as hedge funds build up major stakes in the troubled lender’s bonds, it emerged over the weekend. Junior bondholders will see their holdings written down […]

Hedge funds turned less negative on corn price prospects, but remain net short by a historically high amount – raising the prospect of a substantial switch in the fortunes of prices of the grain compared with soybeans. Managed money, a […]

Barron’s – Ernst & Young and The Hedge Fund Journal released their 2013 list of 50 leading Women in Hedge Funds over champagne and canapes Thursday at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. There are 33 new names on […]

Forbes – Hedge fund investing promises a very simple outcome: Give your money to a manager and he or she will do whatever it takes to make your assets rise in all markets. Stocks down? Covered. Bond crash? Covered. Neither? […]

MP – The news which only became public last Friday means that hedge funds NML, Aurelius and Olifant have an additional thirty days to contest the ‘writ of certiorari’ (appeal) from Argentina until August 26, instead of July 26. Last […]

Bloomberg – West Texas Intermediate rose for a fourth day after hedge funds increased bullish bets on the U.S. benchmark crude amid declining stockpiles. Futures climbed as much as 0.6 percent in New York after capping a fourth weekly advance. […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds and other money managers raised bullish bets on Brent crude to their highest level in a month, according to data from ICE Futures Europe. Speculative bets that prices will rise, in futures and options combined, outnumbered short positions by 181,400 lots in […]

Reuters – Funds betting on commodity price moves have lost money every month since January, their joint longest losing streak on record, raising more doubts about their ability to make money at a time when the commodity “supercycle” may be […]

Bloomberg – Zhang Xinliang, a former employee of billionaire investor George Soros’s family office, started his own Hong Kong-based hedge-fund company, Magnolia Capital Management Ltd. Magnolia was licensed by the city’s Securities and Futures Commission on April 18, according to information […]

Reuters – Hit by a whipsawing yen in the last two months, many FX hedge funds are still determined to bet the Bank of Japan will succeed in weakening the currency over time while the dollar climbs as the Federal […]