San Francisco Chronicle – Evergreen Capital Partners Ltd.’s Australian hedge fund, which gained 58 percent in its first 18 months by buying resource stocks and short-selling retailers, will close to outside investors in six to 12 months to remain focused […]

Sacramento Bee – The Conifer Group, LLC (Conifer), a leading provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services, today announced industry veteran Howard Eisen will join the Conifer Securities sales team as it expands its client base across […]

Reuters – Some of the best-known hedge fund managers have offered lots of excuses for underperforming the major stock market indexes last year, with many large funds posting double-digit losses. In letters to investors, managers pointed to things like Europe’s […]

Bloomberg – On a dark, drizzly November morning, Michael Farmer steps to the pulpit to deliver a stern message to fellow parishioners at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, an 800-year-old church in the shadow of the London Metal Exchange and in the heart of […]

Reuters – Hedge funds are taking on the powerful International Monetary Fund over its plan to slash Greece’s towering debt burden as time runs out on the talks that could sway the future of Europe’s single currency. The funds have […]

Bloomberg – Rallying stocks have done little to entice professional money managers back to U.S. equities. A gauge of hedge-fund bullishness measuring the proportion of bets that shares will rise climbed to 44.5 last week from 43.9 at the end […]

Reuters – Move over, John Arnold: the U.S. natural gas market has a new hedge-fund king, operating as skillfully and mysteriously as the ex-Enron wunderkind who once wowed the trade. For three years in a row, Houston-based David Coolidge has […]

Hedge Funds Review – There will be a few value opportunities in 2012. The structured and corporate credit spaces will be extremely interesting going forward. While structured markets have sold off dramatically recently, one can lock in good returns if one […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds that exited oil markets late last year have begun boosting bullish bets as tensions with Iran and reports of U.S. economic growth sent crude to the highest price since May. The funds increased bullish positions 4.1 […]

Technorati – Gregory Meyer reported on FT.com that spot gold prices in London fell to $1,523 per troy ounce down $400 from a nominal record made last year. Gold prices are at the lowest in almost half a year. Investors are exchanging […]

BVI – A group of more than 470 Russian and Eastern European investors sued a family of hedge funds last week, alleging a $20 million “massive fraud.” Three Russian lawyers filed the lawsuit in United States federal court against the […]

The Financial – Deutsche Bank and Financial Risk Management announced a partnership to launch the industry’s first hedge fund seeding managed account platform, according to Deutsche Bank. The dbalternatives Discovery platform, based on Deutsche Bank’s established and award winning dbalternatives […]