Guardian – The existence of an extraordinary global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed. The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the Guardian, the BBC’s […]

Resource Investor – After falling 0.94% last week, Comex gold futures rebounded 0.52% this week and ended at $1,723.60 on Tuesday. The S&P 500 index and the Euro Stoxx 50 index surged 2.05% and 3.39% this week. Crude oil futures […]

Bloomberg – Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, Europe’s second-biggest hedge fund, is rebuilding in the U.S. after largely pulling out during the 2008 financial crisis. The $39 billion firm, run by billionaire Alan Howard, is seeking traders for its New York office after […]

Reuters – The demand from investors to pull money out of hedge funds neared a three-year high this month, industry data showed, amid concerns over U.S. taxation of wealthy individuals under President Barack Obama and lackluster hedge fund performance. Hedge […]

Reuters – Singapore commodities trader Olam is not the only stock on shortsellers’ radar – higher-profile names such as Italian carmaker Fiat and Brazilian oil group Petrobras are also being targeted. Speaking at a conference, hedge fund managers including Chris […]

Reuters – Top hedge fund managers picked stocks as diverse as News Corp, holding company Porsche, and cosmetics maker L’Oreal on Monday at a hedge fund event seen by investors as revealing the industry’s top stock picks. The Ira Sohn […]

Forbes – A number of top hedge fund managers dialed back their Apple holdings in Q3, just in time to avoid a slide that sent the stock tumbling from its all-time high. Looking at recently filed 13-F SEC filings, a new report […]

Chicago Tribune – Shares of Groupon are up in premarket trading after a hedge fund disclosed it bought a 9.9 stake in the online deals company. Tiger Global said in a regulatory filing that it owns 65 million shares of […]

Fierce Finance – The hedge fund trenches are not a pleasant place to be. That would appear to be the message so far in the trial of Todd Newman, formerly of Diamondback, and Anthony Chiasson, the co-founder of the hedge […]

Bloomberg – Paulson & Co., the hedge fund run by billionaire John Paulson, and mutual fund firm Franklin Resources Inc. are among foreign investors betting Canada will approve Cnooc Ltd. (883)’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Nexen Inc. (NXY) Paulson & […]

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Bloomberg – Hedge funds cut bullish commodity bets for a sixth straight week, the longest slump since the depths of the global recession four years ago, on mounting concern that economies are slowing. Money managers lowered combined net-long positions across 18 U.S. futures […]