Reuters – Firms that make money selecting hedge funds will have to conduct more checks on managers running the assets and show they know what they are buying in order to appease clients disgruntled by the Madoff fraud and poor […]

Bloomberg – Persian Gulf Arab institutions are likely to boost hedge fund investments this year as they seek to diversify assets and stabilize returns, according to Investcorp Bank BSC of Bahrain, which manages $12 billion. The Gulf usually follow trends […]

Guardian – Unlike most lists of its kind, our survey of the top 50 female hedge fund managers does not include details of the personal or family lives of the women involved. Had we tried to include them, some of […]

Reuters – Prominent hedge fund managers voted with their wallets in the fourth quarter to declare the long financial crisis over, and made big bets on banks and other lenders to back that view. John Paulson, Edward Lampert and Carl […]

Politico – Richard Baker, president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association, uses a Domino’s Pizza ad, of all things, to illustrate how much work the hedge-fund industry he represents has to do to polish its image as Congress eyes […]

Alternet – Goldman Sachs’s Greek adventure got an in-depth look from the New York Times yesterday. The article extends on last week’s Spiegel piece, which reported that the bank helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt through the […]

Financial Times – The former Citigroup star energy trader who became a symbol of high compensation on Wall Street is raising money for a hedge fund named after a village near his historic German castle. Andrew Hall, head of Phibro, […]

CNN Money – It looks like risk is back. The hedge fund industry had a phenomenal 2009, with a return of 18.6%, for its greatest rebound in 15 years, says a report from industry research firm Credit Suisse Tremont. Even […]

BusinessWeek – KTOs Capital Partners Co., a Japanese fund of hedge-fund advisory firm, aims to raise and invest 30 billion yen ($333 million) this year in new Asian hedge funds being established as global financial crisis ebbs. Satoko Koshida, founding […]

Sydney Morning Herald – When there are two sets of accounts with widely varying outcomes it is hard to avoid an ugly possibility: some form of fraud has been afoot. This is the proposition investigators of Trio Capital are now […]

Telegraph – A raft of European banks, healthcare companies and property firms have attracted a sudden spike in “short positions” over the past two weeks, according to figures from DataExplorers. Financial stocks, considered to be in the frontline in the […]

WSJ – Some of London’s largest hedge fund managers are stepping up their hiring, adding traders and sales people from investment banks, as well as from their smaller fund manager peers. Among the most active recruiters in recent months have […]