BusinessWeek – From the Lowinger clan to hedge funds, investors are cashing in on the business of trading unwanted life insurance policies. From the Lowinger clan to hedge funds, investors are cashing in on the business of trading unwanted life […]

Reuters- An Internet-style bubble is looming in renewable energy stocks with valuations reaching the ozone layer and businesses managing to secure flotations with little or no turnover, a Frenchinvestment fund has warned. With raw material prices showing no sign of […]

Reuters- Stock market disquiet caused by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis has hit flotations in the booming hedge fund sector, as offerings from Man Group and U.S. firm Third Point raised less than targeted. Man Group (EMG.L: Quotazione, Profilo), the […]

CNN Money- Chastened by the 2000-02 crash, the mutual fund industry has morphed into a 401(k) bureaucracy, cranking out bland diversified funds and packaging them into “life cycle” portfolios that you don’t have to think much about. All the glitz […]

Los Angeles Times- One of the five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission is skeptical about an agency proposal that would require individuals to have at least $2.5 million in investments, excluding the value of their primary residence, before […]

Bloomberg-  U.S. hedge-fund managers Steven Cohen, Kenneth Griffin, Adam Sender, David Ganek and Daniel Loeb are among the world’s 200 most active art collectors, according to a list compiled by the magazine ARTnews. Griffin, who runs the $14 billion Citadel […]

The Australian- THE full extent of problems in two of Australian hedge fund operator Basis Capital’s funds caused by investment in Collateralised Debt Obligations (CEDs) is now emerging, with the news that the funds fell in value by an average […]

Washington Times- Bear Stearns & Cos. yesterday said it would close two troubled subprime mortgage hedge funds that are worthless as a result of surging defaults as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke admitted that the subprime mess will further […]

Financial News Online US- Dubai is bucking the trend around the world by drafting a code of conduct for hedge funds. Several jurisdictions have decided this could be seen as over-regulation. Hedge fund assets in the Gulf states are small, […]

Times Online- The lobby group representing some of the stock market’s biggest investors has called on the City watchdog to crack down on activist investors and hedge funds. The Association of British Insurers (ABI), whose members control about 20 per […]

Channel News Asia- Hedge funds that invest in Greater China are no more risky than those with money in the US. This is according to a survey commissioned by Fullerton Fund Management. The study was conducted partly to determine if […]

Reuters UK- Stock market watchdogs gave their conditional blessing on Tuesday for the inclusion of hedge fund indices in European Union-regulated funds for small investors. The European Commission, the bloc’s top financial regulator, had asked the EU’s 27 national market […]