Investment Europe – Man Group reported a fall in assets of $6.1bn last quarter, bringing total funds at the diversified fund manager to $58.4bn, led by sharp falls in the combined assets of its systematic AHL hedge fund. Peter Lenardos, […]

DealBook – The year 2011 is over, and soon we’ll be hearing again about billion-dollar paydays for select hedge fund wizards. If it makes you feel any better, not everyone is sharing in these riches. The people who operate the […]

Yonhap – Millennium Partners, a fund managed by the U.S.-based Millennium Management LLC, is considering tapping the South Korean hedge fund market, sources said Monday, in what would mark the first local entry of an overseas fund. Millennium Partners, which […]

CNN – After a year of losses, the exodus of investors from hedge funds hasn’t been as great as many expected. In the case of Eric Mindich’s $12 billion Eton Park Capital Management — which fell about 11% last year […]

Reuters – Hedge funds owning a large chunk of the $2.8 billion debt in Australia’s Nine Entertainment, owned by buyout firm CVC, have prepared a proposal to convert their debt into equity in the TV network, a source told Reuters, […]

Rolling Stone – If there was ever a news story that crystalized the moral dementia of modern Wall Street in one little vignette, this is it. Newspapers in Colorado today are reporting that the elegant Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado,  […]

Hedge Funds Review – Asian-based hedge funds are increasing in size as more embrace good governance aimed at attracting institutional money, according to BNY Mellon’s head of alternative investment services in Asia. For the first time the average size of […]

Channel 4 – Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy tells Channel 4 News “every poet must follow their conscience” as the withdrawal of two poets overshadows this year’s TS Eliot Prize for poetry. “There’s a real feeling of celebration… the brotherhood […]

SF Chronicle – Investors may add about $80 billion of new capital to hedge funds globally this year, the most since 2007, Barclays Plc said in a report. About 56 percent of investors surveyed by Barclays plan to increase such […]

Dow Jones – The Managed Funds Association, a trade association representing the global alternative investment industry, this month wrote to the Securities & Exchange Commission calling for the repeal of a US rule established in 1933. In a letter to […]

ET – European hedge fund managers are betting that China’s once red hot economic growth will cool dramatically in 2012, hitting companies, economies and commodity prices that have been fuelled by the world’s second largest economy in recent years. Managers […]

Forbes – The manager of a formerly $550 million hedge fund firm has been found to be in civil contempt of court for violating temporary injuction orders and threatened with jail time by a Connecticut state judge who disapproved of […]