Reuters – Wealthy investors, whose millions helped fuel the hedge fund industry’s early growth spurt, still want to own alternative assets but on new terms, bankers to the world’s richest families said on Monday. Less than two years after the […]

eFinancial Careers – Since laws simplifying the process for redomiciliation came into operation earlier this month, hedge funds are queuing up to come to Ireland. The upshot of this is extra work for support services to the industry, which is […]

Read Complete Article – The latest list of top hedge funds by assets is out and most of the same players remain industry heavyweights. If you don’t have a subscription to AR Magazine, here’s a recap of their latest top 10.  […]

Fund Strategy – Amid Ireland’s potentially terminal bank bailout last week, another eurozone woe passed relatively unnoticed: bond managers say France may be the next state to be downgraded. Christophe Akel, a co-manager of the GLG Global Corporate Bond fund, […]

Guardian – Inmarsat is leading the fallers as the market starts the week on a downbeat note. The satellite operator has dropped 18.5p to 650p following reports that US hedge fund Harbinger wanted to sell 10% of its 28% stake in […]

Bloomberg – Fortress Investment Group LLC’s Adam Levinson, co-chief investment officer of global macro funds, will move to Singapore to lead the New York-based buyout and hedge-fund firm’s expansion in Asia. Fortress will have an investment team of about 10 people […]

Seeking Alpha – Cypress Bioscience will consider putting itself up for sale or unloading part of its assets in an attempt to nullify or better a pending buyout offer made by a New York hedge fund. Ramius, a Cowen Group […]

FavSticks – The Dodd-Frank bill requires the SEC and CFTC to propose and promulgate final rules with respect to a number of important areas for investment managers.   As we have seen, significant time has already been devoted to trying […]

CT Post – Things looked bleak back in December 2008. A market that was starting to plummet was made worse by the news that financial whiz Bernard Madoff’s hedge fund was just a pyramid scam. The $42 million the town thought it […]

Dow Jones – European Central Bank Executive Board member Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell Monday urged European Union politicians and lawmakers to speed up new hedge fund regulation. “The crisis has demonstrated the kind of effect hedge funds can have on financial markets […]

Reuters – Tucked away in a basement in London’s exclusive Mayfair district is a hedge fund manager investing entirely in raw materials, one of a small band trading commodity spreads — and making big money in the process. VOC Capital […]

Telegraph – The investors are attempting to force the Irish authorities to pay them more for the debt they hold in Anglo Irish Bank and say if their demands are not met they could trigger a default crisis. The London […]