The Street – How can you cope with falling markets? More investors are turning to funds that sell short or use other techniques employed by hedge funds. Top short-selling funds have demonstrated that they can limit losses in downturns and […]

NYT – Last Wednesday, Representative David Scott, Democrat of Georgia, mingled with insurance and financial executives and other supporters at a lunchtime fund-raiser in his honor at a chic Washington wine bar before rushing out to cast a House vote, […]

BusinessWeek – Hedge funds sold oil at the fastest pace in almost eight months, cutting their bullish bets by 32 percent as crude prices plunged on concern Europe’s debt crisis will hurt energy demand. The speculative net-long position in crude […]

NYT – Last Wednesday, Representative David Scott, Democrat of Georgia, mingled with insurance and financial executives and other supporters at a lunchtime fund-raiser in his honor at a chic Washington wine bar before rushing out to cast a House vote, […]

Wall Street Journal: Hedge funds are about to come out of the regulatory shadows. The Senate and House versions of the bill require all hedge-fund advisers over a certain size to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That would […]

Telegraph – Santander, which has bought Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and parts of Bradford & Bingley in the UK in recent years – staff were aware that the convicted fraudster’s operations were “shrouded in secrecy” and that his trading was […]

Bloomberg – Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, Europe’s largest hedge fund manager, started accepting external investors for a fund investing in energy and commodities. Brevan Howard Commodities Strategies Master Fund Ltd. got $200 million from its parent company when it […]

WSJ – It’s rare that four of the most successful and well-known hedge-fund managers in the world are all on the same stage. But it’s happening today at the Skybridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas. James Dinan of York Capital […]

Forbes – Mutual fund outfits are selling the glamour and mystique of hedge fund strategies. You’d be better off with a plain old balanced fund. These are trying times for mutual fund managers. In the wake of the biggest stock […]

Reuters – A proposal to hike taxes on profits earned by investment fund managers will again be reviewed by the U.S. House on Friday, the chairman of the tax-writing panel in that chamber said on Wednesday. The tax on so-called […]

WSJ – As the stock market spiraled out of control two weeks ago, two major firms that handle trades for retail brokerages suffered trading breakdowns. One, the big Chicago hedge-fund firm Citadel Investment Group, stopped taking orders for a number […]

Deutsche Welle – A statement released after a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Tuesday said the EU had “agreed a mandate for negotiations with the European parliament” to harmonize hedge fund regulation across the 27-nation bloc. […]