Forbes – The regulatory focus on hedge funds continued during the first quarter of 2012, as new iniatives continued to roll out, and milestones in the implementation of rules put on the books last year were hit. For “large” hedge funds, we […]

Investment News – B. Robert Williamson Jr., a money manager at Chilton Investment Co. and nephew of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, for whom he once worked, died during a visit to his native North Carolina on April 22. He was […]

Economic Times – Och-Ziff, the $30-billion New York-based hedge fund, has frozen secondary market stock investments in India due to soaring compliance costs and muddled tax policies, four people familiar with the development said. Sumit Choudhary, the Hong Kong-based managing […]

CNBC – Hedge fund managers make for unlikely supporters of François Hollande, the French socialist presidential candidate, the Financial Times reports. But it is Mr Hollande’s potential victory in the coming second round of the French elections, and with it […]

BusinessWeek – Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP co-founder Alan Howard’s personal fortune increased 44 percent over the past year to 1.4 billion pounds ($2.3 billion), putting him at the top of the annual Sunday Times list of wealthiest U.K. hedge […]

Bloomberg – Gold traders are more bullish after central banks expanded their bullion reserves and hedge funds increased bets on a rally for the first time in three weeks. Fourteen of 28 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to gain […]

Reuters — A U.S. judge denied a motion to dismiss the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s lawsuit against Arcadia Petroleum and Parnon Energy on Thursday [April 26], saying the regulator had “plausibly alleged” the traders manipulated oil prices in 2008. […]

Reuters — The newest Goldman Sachs insider trading probe is focused on a San Francisco-based investment banker suspected of tipping off a hedge fund manager about two health care deals, according to a source who could not be identified. Federal […]

Reuters – A former Morgan Stanley executive settled with U.S. securities regulators in connection with real estate investments in China and prosecutors have filed a related criminal case, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday [April 25]. Garth Peterson, […]

Forbes – George Soros, founder of the second-best-performing hedge fund of all time, the Quantum Fund, bought 6 million shares of Openwave (OPWV) on April 10 at approximately $2.41 per share, as reported by GuruFocus Real Time Picks. Soros had previously […]

Business Insider – Hedge funds have received quite a battering in the financial press of late. Persistently disappointing results have rightly drawn attention to the high fees, opaque strategies and limited liquidity that characterize much of the industry. My recent […]

Bloomberg – For asset managers seeking hedge fund-like returns on the cheap, Man Group Plc is now offering the biggest discount on record. The world’s largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager was valued at 0.65 times net assets this week before […]