Telegraph – News has reached this column of an alliance between Andrew Law, the chief of macro hedge fund Caxton Associates, and the BBC’s business editor Robert Peston. Law is bankrolling Peston’s schools charity, Speakers for Schools, after the pair […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds lost money for commodity investors for a second straight year as managers from the Galena Metals Fund to Clive Capital LLP trailed benchmark indexes of raw materials. The Newedge Commodity Trading index of 56 hedge funds […]

Bloomberg – The Pacific Group Ltd., founded by a former PaineWebber Inc. trader, is converting one-third of its hedge-fund assets into physical gold, betting that prices will go up as governments print more money to pay off debt. The Hong […]

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 access […]

Reuters – The region’s largest hedge funds – those managing more than $500 million – delivered weaker returns on average than nimbler, small to medium-sized funds, according to fund research and people with knowledge of the individual funds. In a […]

St Louis Business Journal – Women hedge-fund managers outperformed men rather dramatically through 2012, with average returns of 8.95 percent compared with the global hedge fund index’s 2.69 percent. What’s more, women-run hedge funds also beat that index in the […]

Hedge Funds Review – Changes are taking place at Gam as the hedge fund manager reorganises its operations and acquires a minority stake in US-based manager QFS. Gam now manages $48 billion across its entire product range. Gam Holding is […]

BusinessWeek – Onetime Carl Icahn protégé Keith Meister, 39, engineered a quick sale of Ralcorp Holdings (RAH), which makes private-label foods for grocers. In August he bought 5 percent of Ralcorp, which walked away from a takeover bid by rival ConAgra Foods (CAG) the […]

Tampa – New York hedge fund bought Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch for $3 million. The premier course is almost 16 years old and was designed by golf legend Arnold Palmer. The previous owner of the course, Textron Financial Corp., acquired it for […]

CNN – The Dreamliners may be temporarily grounded, but one hedge fund manager is betting that aircraft makers are about to take off. “The aerospace industry was essentially put on hold during the few years since the financial crisis, but […]

Seeking Alpha – The first part of the Herbalife (HLF) action arose in December when billionaire Bill Ackman announced a 20 million share short position. Bronte Capital’s John Hempton first coined the phrase “hedge fund porn” when describing the Ackman […]