Reuters – As banks spin off their proprietary trading groups into hedge funds to comply with a new law, traders will find themselves in a tougher environment. Independent hedge funds face higher funding costs and often have less capacity to […]

Bloomberg – Citigroup Inc.’s private bank will triple the number of hedge funds such as Paulson & Co. that its wealthy clients can invest in, under a push to increase money- management revenue. The private bank will expand its HedgeForum […]

Reuters – Hedge fund investors scarred by global credit crisis losses are setting their expectations lower and beginning to content themselves with smaller gains they would have balked at two years ago. Widespread expectations before the credit crisis, fostered both […]

NYT – Winning hedge fund managers expect the American and European economies to slow, according to BusinessWeek. With some saying they plan to bet against industries that do poorly when the economy loses steam and others betting against consumer-related stocks, […]

Bloomberg -John Hussman runs a $6.3 billion mutual fund with the flexibility to bet on rising and falling stock prices. His fees are a fraction of those charged by so-called long-short hedge funds that do the same thing, and he’s […]

Economic Times – John Hussman runs a $6.3 billion mutual fund with the flexibility to bet on rising and falling stock prices. His fees are a fraction of those charged by so-called long-short hedge funds that do the same thing, […]

Bloomberg – Armajaro Holdings Ltd.’s CC+ fund, managed by Anthony Ward, returned more than 3 percent in July, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. The cocoa and coffee fund gained 3.05 percent, according to the people, […]

Reuters – Hedge fund manager John Paulson said this week that he is less certain about the U.S. economic outlook, and has pared positions slightly as a result, according to an investor in Paulson & Co funds. Still, Paulson told […]

Web CPA – After successfully beating back legislation in Congress to raise federal taxes on the earnings of hedge fund managers, hedge funds have also succeeded in preventing New York State from raising their taxes. The state, facing a whopping […]

Reuters – Money manager Philip Falcone is effectively mortgaging a significant chunk of his multibillion-dollar hedge funds’ assets in an effort to raise financing for an ambitious plan to construct a high-speed wireless network. Investment bank UBS, which is trying […]

NYT – Nothing like the threat of tax arbitrage to keep your bonuses up. The New York state senate passed a budget after months of stalemate, but were careful not to raise taxes on some of the state’s highest earners. […]

Hedge Funds Review Magazine – Investors allocated over $360 million in new capital to Asian hedge funds in the second quarter of 2010 reversing the net asset outflow in the first quarter, according to Hedge Fund Research. Total capital invested […]