MarketWatch- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin has charged Bear Stearns Cos. with improper trading with two in-house hedge funds that blew up this summer as a result of bad bets on subprime mortgages and other investments. Investors […]

New York Times- First came the private equity and hedge fund public offering frenzy, then the bust. Now comes I.P.O.’s, Act II. Och-Ziff, a $30.1 billion hedge fund, is expected to start trading today after being priced last night at […]

International Herald Tribune- First came the private equity and hedge fund public offering frenzy, then the bust. Now comes IPOs, Act II. Och-Ziff, a $30.1 billion hedge fund, was expected to start trading on Wednesday after being priced Tuesday at […]

Forbes- Most people can’t find Jersey on a map. Situated far closer to France than Britain in the English Channel, tourists know it for docile, sad-eyed cows and the clotted cream they produce.Financiers know it for rich, sweet products of […]

Financial News Online US- Five years ago, most finance directors would have shuddered at the thought of engaging with their hedge fund shareholders. But alongside the establisheddoyens of traditional fund management in the UK, finance directors said their most constructive […]

FINalternatives- Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the Wall Street giant has raised one hedge fund and plans another to capitalize on the credit crunch. Blankfein said Goldman has raised $2.7 billion for credit hedge fund Liberty Harbor and expects […]

MSNBC- More than $250m of derivatives contracts based on Radar Logic’s residential property index (RPX) had traded since its launch in September, the research group said. Property derivatives allow investors to take a view on the health and direction of […]

Forbes -A new research study indicates with empirical data that hedge funds receiving both seeding and operational support from a larger investment organization or service provider tend to outperform the broader hedge fund universe on a risk-adjusted basis. The findings […]

Chicago Tribune – Billionaire Carl Icahn’s activist hedge funds posted their first quarterly decline since they opened three years ago because of volatile markets and losses on stocks including WCI Communities Inc. and Lear Corp. The funds, run by Icahn […]

Reuters- Investment boutique Thames River Capital said on Friday it will launch a hedge fund investing in real estate stocks and derivatives at the end of this month. The Thames River Longstone fund, a long/short equity fund, will be managed […]

CNNMoney.com- A single hedge fund has made a gain of more than $3 billion (EUR2 billion) at the expense of investment banks by betting on the subprime crisis. U.S. hedge fund manager Paulson & Co. has turned an investment of […]

Gazeta.KZ- Hedge funds for qualified investors could appear in Russia as soon as next year, as the State Duma is due to discuss the second reading of amendments to the bill oninvestment funds shortly, Tatyana Medvedeva, an expert with the […]