Investment News – The typical family office invests more than a quarter of its clients’ assets with hedge funds, according to an Infovest21 LLC survey of family offices released today. By comparison, advisers allocate about 1% of their clients’ assets […]

Forbes – As the 2012 presidential elections approach on the horizons, questions remain about which way Wall Street will lean. In particular, hedge funds and private equity funds may soon bear a serious grudge against President Obama and his Democratic […]

CNN – Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s both downgraded the company’s rating further into junk territory Monday morning, and S&P completely withdrew its rating on Sino-Forest shortly after announcing the downgrade. The ratings cuts come after Canada’s stock governing body, […]

Bloomberg – Aurelius Capital Management LP asked a derivatives industry group to determine whether a unit of Energy Future Holdings Corp. is insolvent, which would trigger payouts on $1.2 billion of credit-default swaps linked to the utility provider’s debt. The […]

Business Insider – While others were stockpiling water, flashlights, and board games in preparation for Hurricane Irene, the hedge fund Tudor Investment was crunching numbers. Paul Tudor Jones’ investment firm employs a weather derivatives analyst. Weather derivatives are fairly new, the […]

Houston Chronicle – An attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission sought an emergency court order Monday against a hedge-fund manager who has been selling off parts of his pricey home’s interior despite a freeze on his assets during a […]

The Independent – A $1bn Knightsbridge-based hedge fund backed by Libyan money has resumed trading in the US after its assets, frozen on the outbreak of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion, were released. The assets were among the first to be released of the […]

Bloomberg – Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG) is leading investors in an offer to buy the shares of Charter Hall Office REIT (CQO) not owned by the trust’s manager, seeking a return to assets it offloaded 1 1/2 years ago. Australia’s biggest […]

Opalesque – With just three trading days left in August, Israel (Izzy) Englander’s Millennium hedge fund is down 1% so far in August but up around 5% up YTD, according to information obtained by Opalesque. Last Friday, Opalesque reported (via […]

Investment International – Hedge funds run by sophisticated computer programmes are profiting from large falls in stock markets and a rocketing gold price this month, even as funds managed by human beings struggle to cope with high market volatility, it […]

Bloomberg – Speculators increased bullish bets on agricultural commodities to the highest level since early May after adverse weather eroded yield prospects for corn and soybean crops in the U.S., the world’s top grower and exporter. Hedge funds and other […]

Reuters – August was shaping up as one of the worst months ever for some top hedge fund managers like John Paulson, but Warren Buffett may have changed that. Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Bank of America Corp sparked a rally […]