Reuters- Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, said on Tuesday that its assets under management have risen to $68 billion (34 billion pounds) from $61.7 billion at the end of March. The firm (EMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research), […]

Newsday – For the first time, it took more than a mere billion dollars to make Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the 400 richest Americans. But that didn’t present much of a hurdle to Cablevision honcho Charles Dolan and hedge […]

Reuters- MFS Investment Management said on Monday it has set up a subsidiary to provide seed capital to hedge funds, in another instance of a mainstream money manager venturing into the alternativeinvestments area. MFS, a unit of Canadian insurer Sun […]

Bloomberg- Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chairman Joseph Yam said he’s displeased with the low level of disclosure by hedge funds compared with other investors. “I have not been happy with the asymmetry in transparency,” Yam said after a speech at […]

BBC News- The upmarket district in the West End of London is home to many of the financial speculators who have made a mint out of the mortgage bank’s woes. Hedge funds – as well as traders in some of […]

BusinessWeek – At first glance, long-short mutual funds seem like a good idea. They mimic various hedge fund strategies, aiming to rise when stocks fall—or at the very least, to lose much less ground. The reality has been a little […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- AEGON Asset Management has announced the coming launch of the UK’s first Ethical Cautious Managed fund to the retail market on 1 March 2007. The Ethical Cautious Managed fund marks another first for AEGON Asset Management, […]

Economic Times- Indian stocks have emerged as the most attractive bet for hedge funds, the fall guys during the recent subprime crisis, with returns better than that of the Sensex. According to a study of over 7,000 hedge funds across […]

Bloomberg- Cesar Alierta, head of former Spanish telephone monopoly Telefonica SA, delivered higher returns in the past year than Mohamed El-Erian did managing Harvard University’s endowment. Nowhe’s shifting his strategy to keep the price rising. Alierta may set plans to […]

Reuters.uk- Bear Stearns Cos Inc (BSC.N: Quote, Profile , Research) has hedged its remaining assets in high-grade structured credit hedgefunds, the investment bank’s chief financial officer said on Thursday. Sam Molinaro also told analysts on a conference call that Bear had […]

Reuters- Hedge fund portfolios run by computers are supposed to deliver better results than those managed by humans, but that didn’t happen last month when both types of funds lost money, managerssaid and new data show. Many hedge fund managers […]

Morning Call – The American economy may be teetering on the brink of a recession, but there’s an industry our hedge fund gurus believe has an almost limitless future: the Chinese police state. In a stunning report in The New […]