The Sydney Morning Herald – The mystery shrouding the collapse of the hedge fund Trio Capital deepens, along with the fate of thousands of investors and the missing $118 million. On September 28, a couple of days before the authorities […]

GuruFocus – Recently I’ve been laying the groundwork for a quantitative approach to value investment. The rational is as follows: simple quantitative or statistical models outperform experts in a variety of disciplines, so why not investing in general, and why […]

BusinessWeek – Bank of America Merrill Lynch is helping more than a dozen multibillion dollar international hedge funds set up or reestablish a presence in Hong Kong and Singapore as the U.S. and Europe increase industry regulation. A number of […]

Reuters – Swiss private bank Julius Baer  is launching a new investment trading platform for unlisted funds that offers increased price transparency and could make it cheaper to buy or sell these products. Oliver Heusser, specialist in funds secondary market […]

Bloomberg – New York State Common Retirement Fund, the third-largest U.S. pension plan, invested $250 million in an emerging-market hedge fund run by Finisterre Capital LLP, as institutional managers seek to tap into growing economies. The $126 billion state pension […]

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Earlier signs of recovery at Man Group PLC (EMG.LN), the giant hedge-fund operator that was heavily hit by the financial crisis, took a knock Friday as the company said weak sales and performance losses at its biggest fund […]

WSJ – Earlier signs of recovery at Man Group PLC (EMG.LN), the giant hedge-fund operator that was heavily hit by the financial crisis, took a knock Friday as the company said weak sales and performance losses at its biggest fund […]

WSJ – Exchange-traded funds are now a trillion-dollar business, according to a report by BlackRock Inc., the largest ETF firm. BlackRock, which bought the iShares ETF business from Barclays PLC last year, on Wednesday said assets in ETFs around the […]

BusinessWeek – Soros Fund Management LLC, the $25 billion hedge-fund firm founded by billionaire George Soros, plans to open an office in Hong Kong, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Soros Fund Management may relocate New York-based […]

Benzinga – Though hedge funds posted a strong turnaround and reached the $2 trillion mark in 2009, marking their best returns in 10 years, a number of firms are still vulnerable, which could have an impact on their ability to […]

Reuters – The fund of hedge funds arm of Hermes, Britain’s largest pension scheme manager, has rallied peers with more than $15 billion in assets to get agreement on how to better handle the managers running their money. In one […]

Bloomberg – Hedge funds and other investors have made record bets on higher crude and fuel prices as freezing weather boosts consumption. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the total net number of long positions, contracts betting prices will rise, […]