Bloomberg: Senrigan Capital Group Ltd., an Asia-focused event-driven fund backed by Blackstone Group LP (BX), lost almost 15 percent in the first six months of this year, according to a performance estimate sent to investors. Senrigan Master Fund’s net-asset value […]

Susan Solovay founded Pomegranate Capital in 2008 to invest in women-owned hedge funds. It’s quite a story, and while she shuttered the fund in 2009 in the wake of the ongoing Great Recession, she’s gone on to help entrepreneurs, both […]

Bloomberg – Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, Europe’s second-largest hedge fund, has opened a U.S. investment firm that will start trading in August with an estimated $300 million. Brevan Howard U.S. Investment Management LP was set up in New York […]

CorpWatch – BlackRock, Marshall Wace, and Two Sigma Investments – three major hedge funds – have been conducting regular private surveys of brokers for wealthy clients. The practice – often called “alpha capture” – has raised red flags because of […]

Bloomberg – Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan whose office has sent inside traders and terrorists to prison, told attendees at a hedge fund conference that prosecutions foster confidence in the market. “If you have open and aggressive […]

Reuters – New Asian hedge funds raised $2 billion in the first half of the year, an increase of 50 percent over the capital they raised in the previous six months, a survey released on Thursday by industry tracker AsiaHedge […]

Hedge Funds Review – Hedge funds and institutional investors place the US at the top of the list of safe haven currencies. The yen, only a few years ago considered one of the safest currencies, is the least attractive. The US […]

BusinessWeek: Traxis Partners LP, the $1.2 billion hedge fund started by Barton Biggs, told clients it will liquidate a vehicle he managed and transfer the assets to another pool following his death over the weekend. The Traxis Global Equity Macro […]

Marketwatch Blog: The era of multi-billion dollar hedge funds, with their “2 and 20” fee structures, high portfolio, and employee turnover, looking no farther ahead than this year’s bonus, is over. The Economist came out with a piece last week […]

http://observer.com – How angry an ex would you have to be to file racketeering charges against your spouse? That’s a question Elizabeth Bingham-Perry could answer. The Scarsdale resident filed a civil RICO action against her husband Jeffrey Perry in the […]

Bloomberg – ThinkStrategy Capital Management LLC’s Chetan Kapur was accused by the U.S. of deceiving investors into buying shares in his hedge funds in a scheme that lasted from 2002 to 2010. Kapur, ThinkStrategy’s sole managing director, was charged with […]

CNBC – Edward Brogan was Japan’s highest-profile hedge fund manager until he suddenly dropped out of view this month. Dubbed the “King of Tokyo” by traders, the 53-year-old American seemed to have it all: wealth, professional acclaim and status as […]