Business Insider – China is going through a property boom. The master of short selling, Jim Chanos, questioned China’s real estate investments and said he is now shorting China. Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan reported from Ordos Shi in Inner Mongolia, a town of one […]

Bloomberg – Daniel Posner, who formerly headed the distressed investment unit of hedge fund firm D.E. Shaw & Co., has joined Golub Capital BDC Inc., where he will start a hedge-fund business, the Financial Times reported. Read Complete Article

Economic Times – Asian hedge funds, starved for capital since the financial crisis in 2008, are beginning to make a tactical sojourn to markets abroad, directly chasing clients in the United States and Europe to gather the elusive assets. The […]

Reuters – Few CEOs have been linked as closely to their companies as Steve Jobs is with Apple Inc and few U.S. companies are as popular with investors as Apple is with hedge fund managers. Analysts have called Apple the […]

Bloomberg – Meet Mickey Cohen, a hedge-fund hero in January 2007. He’s got the Gulfstream V, the New York penthouse, two exes and Vanessa, a 25-year-old girlfriend who works at Sotheby’s. He even has started dabbling in Old Masters. “I figure […]

Here Is The City – The Telegraph reports that DE Shaw, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has taken an almost $159m short position in Barclays Bank, emphasising growing concerns that UK banks are facing headwinds operating in a […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds are the most bullish on feeder-cattle futures since at least 2006, a sign that speculators may expect tight supplies of the animals to boost prices that already have surged to a record in Chicago. The funds […]

Professional Pensions – Institutional investors are set to increase investments in hedge funds in 2011 but demand greater transparency and risk management from the industry, a study finds. The survey by SEI found more than half (54%) of respondents said they planned […]

Professional Pensions – Institutional investors are set to increase investments in hedge funds in 2011 but demand greater transparency and risk management from the industry, a study finds. The survey by SEI found more than half (54%) of respondents said they planned […]

Telegraph – For his first-ever speech as Britain’s new Minister of Trade & Industry last week, Lord Green faced a formidable audience of 400 Chinese and British business delegates. The former chairman of HSBC declared that China’s economic growth figures […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds raised bullish bets on oil by the most in five weeks as crude reached the highest level in more than two years amid signs that the global economic recovery is gaining momentum. Oil dropped, failing to […]

New York Times – A new California law has hedge funds and private equity reaching for some antacid. Starting this month, anyone who solicits money for private investment managers from the two largest public pension plans in California must register as a […]