BusinessInsider – Tech giant Apple posted disappointed earnings results yesterday and missed analysts’ expectations pretty much across the board. The stock, which has been a hedge fund favorite for quite some time, was last down more than 11.6% today. Read […]

Reuters – U. S. securities regulators are watching hedge funds more closely than ever, and former Securities and Exchange Commission officials and industry experts are urging managers to be ready when federal examiners come knocking. For roughly a year now, once-secretive hedge […]

Forbes – When Steve Kuhn talks people should listen, especially that one time in late 2011 when he said the best trade of 2012 was going to be going long subprime mortgages. Kuhn certainly did, and the head of fixed-income trading […]

CNN Money – It’s halfway time in the 10-year stock market wager sometimes called The Million-Dollar Bet—that’s Warren Buffett backing the performance of an S&P index fund vs. a New York money manager backing five funds of hedge funds—and there’s […]

Forbes – Last year the billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn predicted that Apple’s market capitalization could hit $1 trillion. He long ago made Apple one of his hedge fund’s biggest holdings and in a letter dated just two days […]

Seeking Alpha – Do you like to follow smart money buying trends? If so, you may be interested in a screen we ran for a look at stocks currently favored by smart money institutional investors. We began by screening the […]

CNBC Business News – BOCA RATON, Florida Jan 22 (Reuters) – After years of favoring fixed income, investors are ready to put their money back into equities and they might be rewarded with strong returns, especially in U.S. stocks, hedge […]

Bloomberg News – David Tepper, the hedge-fund manager who runs the $15 billion Appaloosa Management LP, said he’s bullish on U.S. stocks as the economy is set to grow by as much as 3 percent this year. “This country is […]

Bloomberg – Claude Lixi, the head of Galena Asset Management Ltd.’s energy hedge fund, left the London-based company, according to two people with direct knowledge of the departure. The people didn’t say whether he resigned or was fired, and asked […]

Financial Times – One of the UK’s fastest-growing hedge funds is slashing its fees, in a move that it hopes will spark a rethink of the industry’s notoriously high charges. The new Core Macro fund being set up by Cambridge-based […]

FN – The result is a growing number of funds being registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission under the 1940 Investment Company Act, allowing these to be sold on the same basis as mutual funds. They can also […]