MarketWatch – Long-term and perhaps even short-term investors of gold could be forgiven for getting rattled on Thursday as the precious metal dropped below $1,700 an ounce GCG3 -0.01%, down over $26 in the early hours of U.S. trading. Get used to it, says […]

Business Insider – If you think you’re going to be like Ray Dalio or Dan Loeb, starting an incredible hedge fund from your apartment, it’s time to let go of that dream. Over the last ten years, starting your own fund has gotten […]

Reuters – Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has charged Magnus Peterson, the founder of Weavering Capital, with fraud and forgery, just months after reopening its investigation into the collapsed hedge fund. The SFO said in a statement that Peterson is charged […]

Bloomberg – Swiss hedge fund managers are considering relocating to neighboring Liechtenstein to sidestep tougher regulations being introduced in Switzerland and gain access to the European Union, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said. About 47 percent of 92 firms surveyed, including managers of […]

Reuters – Some hedge funds are calling it quits on one of their biggest trades of the year – shorting French government bonds. Earlier this year many in London’s hedge fund industry were lining up bets against the euro zone’s […]

Bloomberg – Tim Peterson, who founded the $7 billion Regiment Capital Advisors LLC in 1999 after a decade at Harvard University’s endowment, plans to step down from day-to- day management of the hedge fund in mid-2014. Peterson, 51, will take […]

North Jersey – A Tenafly man pleaded guilty Wednesday on behalf of his international hedge fund management company to federal wire fraud charges in an insider trading scheme, agreeing to criminal and civil settlements totaling $60 million. Sung Kook “Bill” […]

Guardian – The reputation of Britain’s banking industry took a fresh battering when HSBC was slapped with a record $1.9bn (£1.2bn) fine by US regulators for money laundering and sanctions busting, the first arrests were made in the Libor-rigging investigation, and nationalised Northern Rock handed […]

DealBook – Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was re-elected with a huge margin last year, leaving her political opponents fractured and demoralized. But in recent months, she has found herself locked in battle with a determined adversary who may […]

CNN – With roughly one out of every five hedge funds counting Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500)among their top 10 stock holdings, the recent sell-off in Apple’s stock could start cutting into their returns. Shares of Apple have dropped nearly 25% since mid-September, when […]

IPE –  Institutional investors may have no option but to sacrifice returns if they continue targeting higher liquidity when investing in hedge funds, according to a study by Preqin. The company pointed out that liquidity had been of increasing importance […]