Dealbook – Hedge funds had long operated under the regulatory radar, with few reporting obligations and a well-deserved reputation for secrecy. Now, the government is weighing whether to require them to report any suspicious transactions, like insider information or manipulation […]

(Seeking Alpha) The biotechnology industry can be a difficult space to consistently pick winners. With so many companies claiming to have found the next best medical treatment, investors must look closely at the science and the underlying fundamentals of the […]

(Pension and Investments) The new year is expected to be one of changes that will provide hedge fund managers with opportunity for better performance and new inflows from fresh sources. But lower revenues might result as institutional investors successfully push […]

(Bloomberg) Crispin Odey is fumbling around a storage room in a Georgian town house in London’s Mayfair district, home to Odey Asset Management LLP, his $7 billion hedge-fund firm. Clattering through old computers, boxes of books and forgotten oil paintings […]

(Bloomberg) Weavering Capital (UK) Ltd. founding director Magnus Peterson appeared in a London court today facing six charges of fraud, forgery, fraudulent trading and false accounting over the collapse of the hedge fund in 2009. Judge Michael Snow ordered Peterson, […]

(Business Week) Speculators are abandoning money- losing bets that stocks with the closest links to the U.S. economy will fall as America’s most-hated shares stage the best rally in a year relative to the broader market. The 20 stocks with […]

Bloomberg – Joel Salomon, a former director at Citigroup Inc. (C), plans to start long-short equity hedge fund SaLaurMor Capital LP this month. Salomon, 48, left Citigroup in January 2012, where he ran a financial-stock portfolio valued at $700 million […]

Hedge Funds Review – Crispin Henderson is to become vice-chairman of global asset management for Ameriprise Financial, the parent company of Threadneedle Investments. Campbell Fleming will take over Henderson’s existing role as CEO of Threadneedle. Both Henderson and Fleming will report to Ted Truscott, CEO of […]

Reuters – Leon Cooperman, the chief executive officer of hedge fund Omega Advisors, said on Wednesday he is optimistic toward stock markets this year, while bonds are poised for a sell-off. Cooperman, whose hedge fund had $7 billion in assets […]

Forbes – In 2010 Steve Schwarzman, who runs the private equity and hedge fund behemoth the Blackstone Group, compared efforts to raise taxes on private equity and hedge fund managers with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Schwarzman ended up apologizing for […]

Reuters – Titan Advisors LLC has decided to withdraw all of its money from the hedge fund firm SAC Capital Advisors LP, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [Dec. 21], as SAC faces scrutiny because of several employees linked […]

Hedge World – Litigation funder IMF Australia said it will back lawsuits in Europe related to billions of dollars worth of toxic derivatives created by ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and rated Triple-A by Standard & Poor’s after winning a similar case […]