Reuters – Prosecutors on Wednesday arrested a California woman on charges of leaking secrets about technology companies to two hedge funds in exchange for illegal payments, marking the sixth recent arrest in their big probe into insider trading. A list […]

A former Primary Global Research LLC expert-networking consultant was charged by U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan with selling inside information to portfolio managers at three unidentified hedge funds. Winifred Jiau, arrested in Fremont, California, as part of a national probe of insider […]

Guardian – After two years of client withdrawals and pressure from regulators, hedge funds returned strong performances this year, fuelled by successful bets on metals and emerging markets. The hedge fund industry, heavily criticised for gambling on the collapse of some […]

Markets 24/7 – More optimistic appeared hedge funds managers on U.S. stocks, as many managers forecast improved course in the coming months, according to a survey of TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge Ltd. Nearly 46% of the 92 hedge-fund managers […]

Reuters – Two smaller Asian hedge funds that have bet on Thai and Southeast Asian stocks have made a killing this year, racking up more than 80 percent gains and ranking among the world’s 100 top-performing hedge funds. The Thai […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds raised bearish natural gas bets by the most since October on forecasts that higher- than-normal temperatures in the first weeks of the New Year will reduce demand for the heating fuel. The funds and other large […]

Boston.com – Hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and other financial high-fliers have more to celebrate this holiday season than year-end bonus checks. Thanks to a $4 million lobbying campaign in Congress, and the support of key senators in both parties, […]

Pensions & Investments – Forty-six percent of hedge fund managers surveyed by TrimTabs and BarclayHedge this month were bullish about the S&P 500 index, 19% were bearish and 35% were neutral. Last month, the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey found that 30.5% of […]

IPE Magazine – Hedge funds endured an ‘annus horribilis’ in the market crisis of 2008 – but the industry has started to adapt and consequently the future looks less bleak. Recent research by Deutsche Bank and Greenwich shows that most […]

Crain’s – Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund LP, a New York hedge fund, is suing the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Options Clearing Corp. over an alleged $10-million loss from trading in India Fund Inc. options. Platinum, whose chairman and […]

NYT – Goldman Sachs’s Petershill Fund has agreed to buy a minority stake in Mount Lucas, a Pennsylvania-based hedge fund firm that manages about $1.8 billion — as industry deal-making remains strong. In a statement, Mount Lucas said it would retain […]

Bloomberg – There is an old joke that economists only make predictions so that the weather guys have someone to laugh at. In much the same spirit, once a year this column also makes some predictions — but only so […]