Reuters – Hedge fund giant Man Group is to enter the ETF market with the launch of an innovative fund designed to exploit brokers’ tips. According to the Financial Times, Man GLG Europe Plus Source ETF, will trade brokers’ tips […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds reduced their bullish bets on copper futures by the most in five months on concern that China, the world’s largest buyer, may take more steps to restrain its economy. Hedge funds and money managers cut net-long positions, […]

Reuters – The founder of U.S. hedge fund firm Barai Capital Management has been drawn into the government’s insider trading probe that involves “expert network” firms, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. Samir Barai, the […]

BusinessWeek – Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann said unregulated financial companies such as hedge funds may pose a systemic risk to the economy if oversight isn’t increased. “You have an unregulated area which becomes — as a […]

Bloomberg – This phrase recalling how the Soviet Union’s 1957 space launch shocked the U.S. is back in vogue thanks to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address this week. He sees the rise of India and China as a catalyst […]

Advisor One – Since the mid-1980s, when a group of traders including Bruce Kovner, Julian Robertson, George Soros, and Paul Tudor Jones rose to fame by delivering previously unimaginable returns, the investing public has been fascinated by the world of […]

Risk.net – Deutsche Bank has listed an exchange-traded fund (ETF) which gives investors exposure to equity long-short and equity market neutral hedge fund managers. Tracking the performance of 17 hedge funds from 13 alternative investment managers, the db x-trackers db […]

Bloomberg – Water is set to become hedge-fund guy’s new best friend forever. For H2O, unfortunately, the financier is likely to turn out to be what teenage girls and Hollywood gossip columnists call a frenemy. Every time I mention the wet […]

Guardian – Hedge fund manager John Paulson is thought to have made more than $5bn (£3.15bn) last year – probably the biggest annual profit in investing history. Paulson’s estimated take trumped the near-$4bn he made with his “short” bets against […]

News & Record – Local hedge fund manager and basketball coach Stan Kowalewski bypassed a court hearing Wednesday on charges of securities fraud by letting the government keep his assets frozen. The decision in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia […]

CNBC – The new disclosure rules for hedge funds proposed by the CFTC and SEC this week are much better than I would have expected. For one thing, it’s nice to see the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and […]

Forbes – Gary Cohn is concerned about under-regulation. The shocking thing about this is that Cohn is president and COO of Goldman Sachs- not exactly a proponent of regulatory overhaul. The not so shocking part about his view is that it […]