Financial Standard – Hedge fund, Signature Capital Investments, has partnered up with a Sydney-based family office. The strategic alliance between Signature Capital Investments (SGI) and with AR Management (ARM) was made official on September 26. ARM is the management and […]

Opalesque – Small hedge funds outperform mid-size and large funds, and young funds outperform older ones, according to PerTrac’s latest report “Impact of Fund Size and Age on Hedge Fund Performance,” which found that funds with less than $100m in […]

MarketWatch – Ayn Rand, high priestess of capitalism, reincarnated in an American hedge fund? Deep in the collective conscience of the world’s leading hedge fund, the $122 billion Bridgewater? Yes, Rand’s spirit is alive, in the vision of the iconic […]

Chicago Tribune – Three hedge funds run by New York financier and philanthropist Ezra Merkin won dismissal of civil lawsuits accusing them of being part of swindler Bernard Madoff’s massive fraud. In an order dated Friday and made public on […]

Reuters – Asia’s hedge funds industry is seen struggling to regain its pre-crisis size any time soon as the recent global market slump threatens to deter investors from making fresh allocations to them and delay new product launches. That is […]

The Economic Times – The recent sell-off in gold may not be enough to make some hedge funds with long-term bull positions change their views that the metal is still one of the best bets for profit in a perilous […]

Bloomberg – Hedge fund Oasis Management LLC sued Morgan Stanley for C$9.5 million ($9.3 million) over options in Sino-Forest Corp. bought before the Toronto-listed timber company’s stock plunged 71 percent in two days in June. Morgan Stanley failed to settle the options […]

CBL – A hedge fund sponsored by W. H. Mell Associates has reached $45.78 million in investment. Gulfstream Opportunity Fund LP has attracted a pool of 34 investment interests since its debut in 2005. The fund gained nearly $19.5 million over […]

Hedge Funds Review – US pension fund Calpers has seeded its first hedge fund, Breton Hill Capital, a Toronto-based global macro fund. It has also launched a search for companies to manage up to $2 billion. The California Public Employees’ Retirement […]

Reuters – What had been a welcomed week out of the headlines for beleaguered Yahoo took a sharp turn late Friday, as a memo to the company’s employees from co-founders Jerry Yang and Dan Filo strongly hinted that Yahoo might […]

Reuters – About three-quarters of assets under the management of Asia-focused hedge funds are managed by fund managers based in the region, up from about 60 percent three years ago, according to a survey by industry tracker AsiaHedge released on […]

Business Week – Bruce Kovner is betting he can pull off what eluded Stanley Druckenmiller and George Soros: keeping his hedge fund firm alive after he moves on. On Sept. 13, Kovner named Chief Investment Officer Andrew Law, 45, to run […]