Reuters – One of my favorite side stories of last year’s presidential campaign had to do with the details that emerged about all the money Newt Gingrich had been making in recent years from speeches, books and lobbying (which he […]

NY Post – The city’s hedge-fund executives are flying south — and it’s not for vacation. An increasing number of financial firms, especially private equity and hedge funds, are fed up with New York’s sky-high city and state tax rates […]

Telegraph – The scion of the banking dynasty has informed the Panel, which adjudicates in the matter of such City disputes, that he believes Route One and Orchard Capital are connected to the Indonesian family, which, with linked investors, already […]

Dealbook – For a half-hour on Friday afternoon, the eyes of Wall Street were not on the usual fixations, like the fiscal talks in Washington, or Apple’s earnings or a potential takeover of Dell. Instead, they were turned to the […]

Financial Post – After absorbing months of pointed criticism, Mike Wilson is finally going on the attack. On Monday, Agrium Inc. will launch an offensive against activist hedge fund Jana Partners LLC, which has proposed five dissident board members for […]

Philly.com – Back in 2006, the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and its board, headed by ex-state Rep. Nicholas Maiale (D., Phila.), gave more than $3 billion to six private investment firms so they could use it to buy high-priced hedge fund investments, […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds increased bullish commodity bets by the most in six months as accelerating growth from China to the U.S. boosted prices for a seventh week. Speculators raised net-long positions across 18 U.S. futures and options by 11 percent to 758,048 […]

The Register – After a little more than a month of careful consideration, systems and application performance management software maker Compuware has told Paul Singer, who runs the Elliott Management hedge fund, that he can keep his $2.3bn and that […]

Independent – Punters were dialling up their brokers to buy shares in Vodafone today after a decree from American hedge fund star David Einhorn. Mr Einhorn, who runs Greenlight Capital in the US and has returned roughly 20 per cent a […]

Bloomberg – The public pension for employees of the Hertfordshire County Council, in the commuter belt north of London, is making its first hedge-fund investments to reduce its weighting in equities and boost returns. The 2.5 billion-pound ($3.9 billion) fund hired LGT […]

NPR – I am constantly amazed by the things I learn from your show, but for the first time one of the subjects hit home more directly than I’d expected. I have been using Herbalife products for about a year […]