Bloomberg – Hedge funds increased bets to the highest level in six weeks that diesel prices will climb as U.S. exports to Europe doubled for the industrial and transportation fuel. Hedge funds and other large speculators increased bullish wagers on heating […]

Telegraph – The so-called “shadow banking system” comprising hedge funds, insurers and brokers will be looked at by the ICB, which on Friday released a discussion paper outlining the areas its report will look at. Shadow banking is potentially seen […]

Reuters – Hedge fund managers are well known for extracting huge fees from their wealthy investors. Relatively few have landed a role in a client’s Hollywood blockbuster. However, Christian Baha, head of $1.2 billon hedge fund group Superfund, has been […]

BBC – Royal Mail is a hedge fund that delivers letters. Or at least that’s what the pension-fund expert John Ralfe argues. He has spotted that Royal Mail’s vast pension fund took a massive punt on shares via the derivatives market […]

Bloomberg – Europe’s commercial real estate owners, saddled with 1.9 trillion euros ($2.5 trillion) of debt, may be forced to make billions of euros in cash payments under planned laws that would treat them like hedge funds. Property fund managers could […]

Bloomberg – Former President Bill Clinton talks about the role of women in business and government, financial regulation, U.S.-China relations and involvement by hedge funds in philanthropy. Clinton speaks in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “ Political Capital With Al […]

Hedge Funds Review – The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned that the European Union’s attempts at “misguided” regulation could drive hedge funds out of Europe and wants a “proportional” solution to pay. While it “might be possible for […]

Bloomberg – Dighton Capital Management, a Geneva-based hedge-fund firm that runs managed futures strategies, aims to double the assets of its funds to $500 million in the next two years with the help of an Asian partner. Dighton, which has […]

PIPEs Report – Carlson Capital, a hedge fund manager that’s invested at least $2.31 million in seven PIPEs since 2001, agreed to pay $2.6 million in penalties, disgorgement and pre-judgment interest to settle charges that it violated short selling rules. […]

Pictet Funds, the fund distribution arm of Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, is launching the Pictet Total Return-Mandarin Fund, a Luxembourg-domiciled Ucits III long/short Asian equity hedge fund. The fund will be managed by Lan Wang Simond, who has […]

Bloomberg – The former chief investment officer of ACPI Investments Ltd.’s fund-of-hedge-funds business sued the firm for underpaying his bonus and claimed he was bullied by management. Stephen Greene, who joined ACPI’s predecessor in early 2008 as a partner, said […]

LONDON, Sept 22 – Hedge fund managers are well known for extracting huge fees from their wealthy investors. Relatively few have landed a role in a client’s Hollywood blockbuster. However, Christian Baha, head of $1.2 billon hedge fund group Superfund, […]