Reuters – Hedge fund firm Farallon Capital Management LLC is raising a new real estate fund of about $350 million to $400 million, the first time Farallon has set up a separate fund exclusively for the asset class, according to […]

WSJ – The Securities and Exchange Commission is closely scrutinizing the fees and expenses, including travel and entertainment, that hedge funds and private-equity firms charge to their investors. Many managers of hedge funds and private-equity funds—collectively called “private investment advisers”—had […]

Reuters – The flagship hedge fund of Fortress Investment Group is betting on a further slide in the Japanese yen, predicting the new central bank governor in Tokyo will step-up the pace of monetary policy easing. The $3.2 billion fund […]

Chicago Tribune – Paulson & Co asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the firm of conspiring with Goldman Sachs Group Inc to get a bond insurer to guarantee payments on an investment allegedly designed to fail. In a filing […]

WSJ – New regulations governing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act are a primary area of concern for directors of U.S. hedge funds, according to a new poll. Read Complete Article

Reuters – As speculation mounts that Avenue Capital hedge fund co-founder Marc Lasry will be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to France, his $12 billion firm has told investors it is naming its first chief investment officer, according to […]

ValueWalk – Hedge funds are still lagging the market for 2013, although a few famous funds are having a great year. Macro hedge funds now aggressively selling commodities for the first time since January this year. In the FX world, […]

Salon – After Adam Lanza shot dead 20 children in a Connecticut primary school with his mother’s Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, public discourse turned swiftly to the well-hashed gun control debate. Legislation was proposed,  teacher gun-training groups launched, Bushmasters flew off shelves in […]

Value Walk – Cyprus was the fifth nation in EU to seek rescue from the Torika in an attempt to save itself from a burgeoning debt crisis. However, the €10 billion that were set to reach the country as part of its bailout […]

Last year, Congress passed the JOBS Act, a new bill that was designed to foster the growth of startups. Hedge funds were particularly excited about the bill because it was expected to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to form […]

FT – There is little ambiguity about the ultimate target of investigators and prosecutors in their seven-year campaign to halt insider trading by hedge funds on Wall Street. He is “Portfolio Manager A” in Friday’s historic $614m settlement with SAC, the highly […]

CNN – Starting in February, according to Thomas Kee, who runs an outfit called Stock Traders Daily and writes a column for MarketWatch, hedge fund traders were buying Google and shorting Apple. “The trade worked quite well until about one […]