Financial News Online US- The chief executive of the Financial Services Authority and a deputy governor of the Bank of England said today hedge funds were not responsible for the credit crisis that overtook markets this summer – however managers […]

MSN MoneyCentral- Arab investors, flush with liquidity, are considering investments in distressed US financial assets as they try to turn the turmoil in credit markets into a regional opportunity. Omar bin Sulaiman, governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre, said […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Methods used to determine the worth of a hedge fund’s portfolio should be independently reviewed and transparent to investors, global market watchdogs said on Monday. Hedge funds, blamed by critics for causing wild swings in share markets, […]

Reuters- Hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management, one of the biggest and most successful in the industry, is merging with R6 Capital Management, a much smaller hedge fund, an Eton Park spokesman said on Monday. Eton Park, which manages $10 […]

BusinessWeek – Banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms often borrow $10 or more for each $1 of equity they use in a transaction, according to estimates by the New York Federal Reserve. When the investments pan out, the use […]

Daily Telegraph – They thrive on market volatility and they gamble on failure. Short-sellers, mostly hedge funds, who bet that a share price will fall, have emerged as the biggest winners of the credit crisis. Short-selling is not illegal and […]

Daily Telegraph – Northern Rock is facing further embarrassment after revealing that all the bids submitted on Friday and over the weekend value the stricken bank at less than its current stockmarket value. RAB Capital and SRM Global, two hedge […]

Reuters- The impact of the U.S. mortgage market crisis on the underlying economy could be “dramatic” as leveraged investors may need to scale back lending by up to $2 trillion (1 trillion pounds), according to investment bank Goldman Sachs. Read […]

White Plains Journal News- A former top aide to famed investor and political activist George Soros will not be sentenced until at least Tuesday on charges that he conspired to defraud investors inthe hedge funds he co-founded.   U.S. District […]

IFAonline.co.uk- The FSA has been forced to delay a policy statement which would allow retail investors in the UK to invest in Funds of Alternative Investment Funds (FAIFs), including funds of hedge funds. The statement was due to be released later this year but […]

Bloomberg – The effects will be amplified as banks and hedge funds that borrowed to finance their investments scale back lending, according to the report. The effects will be amplified as banks and hedge funds that borrowed to finance their […]

Atlanta Journal Constitution- Hedge funds can make things happen. They’ve been compared to the old corporate raiders, to shareholder activists, to the leveraged buyout firms of the 1980s. And they’ve often got a lot more muscle than any of their […]