CNBC – Leading hedge fund managers are betting on a significant sell-off in German government bonds in the coming months after a sharp fall in yields on the debt paper driven by a flight to safety in the eurozone. More […]

ComplianceWeek: The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a collection of “frequently asked questions” regarding the new Form PF required of registered investment advisers that manage $150 million or more in assets attributable to private funds. The document seeks to […]

(Bloomberg) — Hedge funds raised their bullish commodity bets as mounting speculation that central banks will announce more economic stimulus halted a slide in prices and drove gold to its longest rally since August. Money managers raised combined net-long positions […]

(Reuters) – Three days in sun-soaked Monaco won’t be enough to stir hedge fund managers from their downbeat mood, made worse by a euro zone crisis that has prompted much soul-searching about the industry’s future after years of lacklustre returns. […]

(Reuters) – Hedge funds managed to eke out a small profit in May, data showed on Friday, even as a resurgence of the euro zone debt crisis roiled markets and sent equity prices tumbling. The GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index, […]

NY Magazine – In an earlier era, hedge fund managers who found themselves out of work had two or three acceptable options for passing the time between gigs: golf, tennis, and maaaaaybe poker. (Though that’s sort of Einhorn’s thing.) Now, though, […]

Reuters – Hedge funds are widely known as investment vehicles for the wealthy because of their high risk investment strategies. Similar to mutual funds, in the way that they employ a manager and that the investments are pooled together, hedge funds are drastically […]

Reuters – Two former managing directors of Och-Ziff Capital Management, Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana, are starting their own hedge fund in Hong Kong by the end of the year, sources said, boosting a strong pipeline of start-ups in the […]

Reuters – In a year of uneven returns for many U.S. hedge funds, managers who invest mainly in bonds have outshone stockpickers. Over the first five months of the year, credit-focused hedge fund portfolios were up 4.11 percent compared with […]

Bloomberg – Hedge-fund manager Paul Sinclair is the latest casualty of Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil, almost six thousand miles away from the epicenter of the crisis. Sinclair, who is based in Los Angeles, is liquidating his $458 million health-care equities fund,Expo Capital […]

Mercury News – A former Silicon Valley hedge fund manager is on trial in San Jose federal court, accused of bilking local investors out of millions of dollars in a wide-ranging scam in which he lured clients with phony claims […]