Telegraph – BlueCrest, which manages assets of $28.6bn altogether, shot to fame when it part-relocated to Geneva for tax reasons in 2010. BlueTrend will be the second fund the firm spins out into a second listing after its AllBlue business […]

CNBC – Hedge funds have mostly been exonerated in the typical narrative of the financial crisis, which concentrates blame on some combination of mortgage lenders, investment banks and government agencies. A new paper by Yale professors Gary Gorton and Guillermo Ordonez, however, […]

Philadelphia Inquirer – Over the summer, Alden Global Capital acquired 100 percent of the Yardley-based Journal Register Co. newspaper chain when it bought the shares owned by fellow hedge fund investors. Now Alden Global may be looking to reduce or […]

Bloomberg – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a collateralized debt obligation transaction in which Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) allowed U.S. hedge fund Paulson & Co. to select mortgage-backed securities, Der Spiegel reported. For a CDO called “START,” […]

Investment Europe – BlueCrest Capital Management is to float a feeder into one of its most successful hedge funds on the London Stock Exchange before April, helping the listed hedge fund market return to levels of activity more typical before […]

Seeking Alpha – As a specialist in understanding sources of business value and applying that to investing, I was interested to see how the Long/Short Hedge funds are doing. Running through some data from the EDHEC database, I created the charts […]

Royal Gazette – We often hear that hedge funds are run by the best and the brightest. Their strategies tend to give them ultimate flexibility and of course the highest fees. And most marketing materials claim they can offer investors […]

Reuters – Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex said it would slash running costs by 15 percent in 2012 after assets fell by some $1 billion from a year earlier as some large clients pulled money in order to […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds increased wagers on rising commodity prices to the most in two months and the rally in raw materials accelerated as the Federal Reserve pledged to keep borrowing costs low for three more years. Money managers raised […]

Guardian – Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson have joined the chorus of criticism over the decision by the Royal Bank of Scotland to award its chief executive a bonus of nearly £1m. The bank is more than 80% owned by the taxpayer, and Johnson, the […]

Boston Globe – Though Mitt Romney made his reputation as a private equity investor, his tax returns show the presidential candidate has a large portion of his wealth in an even more aggressive corner of the investment world: hedge funds. […]

MSNBC – An investment in GM offers upside to the cyclical recovery in the North American markets, as well as the best possible exposure to the secular growth in the BRIC countries, particularly China, but also Brazil. Balance sheet and […]