Hedge fund giant Man Investments has released a new report revealing carbon trading markets as the next frontier for the hedge fund sector.   According to the World Bank, the international carbon market is trading more than $30 billion ($US […]

Bloomberg- Duncan Goodwin’s bets for and against oil producers helped his hedge fund outperform most rivals and its own benchmark. He drew on his past as the U.K.’s top stock analyst to profit from falling stock prices at Exxon Mobil […]

Reuters.uk – Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) said on Tuesday it will begin monitoring hedge funds operating in Japan, seeking to ward off potential turmoil in financial markets. The regulator will ask hedge funds filing with it from around September […]

Reuters- Morningstar Inc., which has already nearly doubled the number of hedge funds it tracks, wants to grow in the hedge fund industry, an executive at the well-known mutual fund rankings firmsaid on Monday. Chicago-based Morningstar, which developed a star […]

  Telegraph.com.UK- If there is one thing that unites both candidates in France’s presidential run-off this Sunday, it is a shared belief that Anglo Saxon hedge funds are the great villains of modern civilisation. Nicolas Sarkozy, the neo-Gaullist favourite, has […]

Call it the Groucho Marx problem: Investors trying to put money into hedge funds frequently find that the managers they want do not want their cash. Just as Groucho complained that he would not join any club that would accept […]

Years ago, the New York Times famously referred to financial instruments used by hedge funds as “exotic and risky.” Today, hedge funds have truly emerged as a legitimate and increasingly stableinvestment vehicle. The hedge fund industry has exploded in size […]

Tokyo –  Daido Life Insurance, a unit of Japan’s only publicly traded life insurer, will increase investment in hedge funds and private equity by as much as Â¥50 billion, or $420 million, in the fiscal year that started April 1. […]

Mumbai –  Hedge funds are running scared of governor YV Reddy. It is not because he is an inflation hawk. It is because his ‘no-surprises’ credit policy resulted in such a positive jump in thestock market that many hedge funds […]

A Melville man has been charged with running a phony hedge fund that cheated one client out of at least $150,000, according to officials. Michael Molitor, 41, pleaded not guilty to a charge of fraud yesterday in U.S. District Court […]

JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) – South African regulators plan to bring the hedge fund sector within the scope of current legislation to increase investor protection, the Reserve Bank said on Wednesday. “Similar to other international initiatives, South African regulators intend […]

As Hollywood and hedge funds enjoy an ever closer relationship, a conference that began this week at the Beverly Hilton may help to strengthen those ties. The gathering, held by the Milken Institute, a think-tank founded by the former junk-bond […]