Hedge World – A hedge fund manager known for his bullish bets on Chinese companies and two of his firms have agreed pay $1.1 million to settle allegations by U.S. securities regulators of wide-ranging misconduct, including insider trading and misleading […]

CNBC – Hedge funds remain ­cautious and defensive after largely sitting out the rally in the U.S. stock market since the start of June, ­contributing to the lowest U.S. stock market trading volumes since 2007. The lack of conviction comes […]

Reuters – After decades of investing in exclusive hedge funds, America’s super rich are getting company as alternative investments are joining the investment management mainstream, a report from McKinsey & Co released to clients in July showed. “The new twist […]

Pensions & Investments – Texas Permanent School Fund, Austin, is taking a second look at the construction of its $2.5 billion hedge fund portfolio while investment officials seek to negotiate lower fees from four of its five hedge funds-of-funds managers. […]

FIN Alternatives – Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ $2.5 million contribution to help keep same-sex marriage legal in his home state made headlines last week. But he’s merely joining the hedge fund honchos, many of them Republicans, who have financed the […]

Independent – A man who fell 100ft to his death from a balcony at the busy Tate Modern art gallery in London was a senior bank manager at HSBC, an inquest has heard. Michael Foreman fell from a fifth-floor balcony […]

New York Post – Don’t like how stocks and bonds are performing? Here’s an asset you can wrap your arms around — literally. Rising fears that traditional investing has become a lose-lose proposition have a growing number of wealthy folks […]

Yonhap – South Korea said Sunday it will ease regulations on hedge funds to enable asset managers and brokerage houses to more easily set them up, with an aim to nurture the related sector. A hedge fund is privately pooled […]

BusinessWeek – Hedge funds raised commodity bets in the longest bullish streak in three years as speculation that policy makers will increase economic stimulus drove prices toward the biggest monthly rally since October. Money managers raised their net-long positions across […]

Barron’s – The struggling hedge-fund industry has hit upon a brilliant growth strategy: If you sell more products that more people can invest in, you will likely attract assets. GeniusAnd so we’re seeing more and more hedge funds announcing they’re […]

Hedge Funds Review – Coeli Asset Management, a Swedish hedge fund and FoHF manager, has moved its Nordic power fund onto the Deutsche Bank dbSelect platform. The fund, launched in 1997, has never had a negative year. Sweden-based Coeli Asset Management […]

Reuters – The Church of England’s pension fund has given its blessing to some of the world’s biggest hedge fund managers, putting its faith in an industry much maligned for poor returns in recent years, its annual report showed. The […]