ETF Database – Over the past several weeks, markets have become increasingly choppy as a number of issues are plaguing the global economy. America teeters on the brink of a recession while debt downgrades and slumping investor confidence have rattled […]

Guardian – Warren Buffett has called himself mega-rich, but now he’s revealing how much money he made last year: $62,855,038. The billionaire investor disclosed the figure in a letter he wrote this week to Republican Tim Huelskamp that was obtained […]

Reuters – Investors pulled out around five times more cash from hedge funds in the month to October 1 than in the prior period, during one of the most turbulent few weeks for stock and bond prices since the 2008 […]

Reuters – David Murrin and Susan Payne, the UK-based husband and wife hedge fund team accused by one U.S. thinktank of fuelling and exploiting a global commodity crisis, are to split the two businesses they founded together after agreeing to […]

Bloomberg – Global Trading Strategies, a Sydney- based hedge fund founded by three former Goldman Sachs JBWere Pty. traders, has returned investors their money after its strategy of betting on global economic trends faltered. The fund, which peaked at $1.2 […]

Bloomberg – John A. Thaler’s $3 billion global long-short hedge fund, JAT Capital Management LP, jumped 31 percent this year through September as the manager’s market- neutral stance and short positions drove returns, according to four people familiar with the […]

Bloomberg –  Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam is set to be sentenced today for insider trading after being convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court for directing the biggest insider-trading scheme in a generation. Prosecutors say Rajaratnam, who […]

Bloomberg – The number of Wall Street dealers tightening financing rates offered to hedge funds outnumbered those easing as Europe’s debt crisis escalated, a Federal Reserve survey shows. Almost 10 percent of dealers said they somewhat tightened financing rates and […]

Reuters – Investors pulled out around five times more cash from hedge funds in the month to October 1 than in the prior period, during one of the most turbulent few weeks for stock and bond prices since the 2008 […]

Reuters – John Paulson could face a two-pronged problem in the coming weeks as outside investors and possibly even some of his own employees walk in the wake of the hedge fund firm’s worst-ever returns. The firm told investors on […]

Reuters  – Massachusetts, which has long bet big on hedge funds, hired 11 managers on Tuesday as part of the state’s push into direct investments with these types of portfolios. Trustees for the roughly $46 billion state pension fund voted […]

Guardian – The shareholder-led campaign for an overhaul of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is gathering momentum, with a call from the advisers Institutional Shareholder Services for 13 of the company’s 15 directors to be voted off the board. ISS, whose 1,700 clients […]