Hedge funds, whose velvet ropes traditionally excluded the small retail investor, are coming to Main Street.   Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and J.P. Morgan have rolled out tools to replicate, or clone, hedge fund-style performance without the standard fees, which […]

Stockhouse Canada – The Financial Services Authority has launched a probe into suspicious share price movements involving leading British companies rumoured to be takeover targets. Officials fear that hedge funds or other investors may be spreading rumours purely to extract […]

New York Magazine – Not so long ago, the talk about hedge funds was all about their money—some guy you’d never heard of buying an $80 million piece of art or a $25 millionteardown in Greenwich, Connecticut, or paying himself […]

(Fortune Magazine) — On North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, on the Magnificent Mile, sits one of the city’s tallest and swankiest residential buildings. The most notable feature of the structure, a seven-year-old art deco-ish number called the Park Tower, is […]

(Fortune Magazine) — On the night before Fortress Investment Group became the first hedge fund to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, Wesley Edens and the other four principals celebrated in a manner that befits the firm’s intentionally low-key […]

Greenwich Time –Aggressive and secretive, hedge funds employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid of risk. Now, some of those strategies are trickling down to investments used by average investors. The hedge funds’ […]

Business Week — Corn prices had to take a breather at some point. After an eye-popping ascent in 2006, prices for the yellow grain fell on Mar. 30 after a highly anticipated Agriculture Dept. report predicted that farmers would plant […]

Hedge funds are threatening to outmanoeuvre private equity on three fronts and force their rivals to seek safety in sophistication. Private equity firms are fighting over public company ownership, the search for talent and competing for assets under management, but […]

Boston – The largest U.S. public funds are investing less than 1 percent of the $2.4 trillion they manage in hedge funds, suggesting that conservative investors are not fully comfortable with these loosely regulated funds. A new survey released on […]

CNBC TV host Jim Cramer has made a name for himself telling viewers how to make money in the stock market. Here’s one time he might wish he’d kept quiet. In a video originally broadcast on trading website TheStreet.com on […]

New York – Northwater Capital Management Inc. announced today the launch of the Northwater Portable Alpha U.S. Bond Fund and the Northwater Portable Alpha U.S. Equity Fund. Both funds are structured as portable alpha offerings, with investors choosing a targeted […]

London – A controversial plan to enable investment houses to share data on each other’s fund flows and analyse intermediary activity is under development by the Investment Management Association. The Data Exchange project is intended to improve transparency between IMA […]