Boston – Investors, including pension funds and endowments, plan to put more money into hedge funds this year and expect to keep paying the loosely regulated portfolios’ high fees, a poll released on Friday shows. Investors polled by Goldman Sachs […]

Britain’s market regulator plans to open hedge fund investing to all individuals in the U.K., allowing the general public to participate in one of the fastest- growing segments of the money-management industry. The Financial Services Authority proposals would let consumers […]

Hong Kong – Hedge funds are hungry for a bigger bite of China’s booming but restrictive stock market, undeterred by last month’s gut-wrenching one-day selloff and limitations on their access and trading strategies. Mainland shares soared 130 percent last year, […]

Amsterdam (AFX) – ABN Amro Holding NV said it takes suggestions from shareholders seriously, but refused to comment further on speculation that hedge funds Polygon and Centaurus have built up a stake in the Dutch bank and are supporting the […]

Let’s face it: Goldman Sachs (GS – Cramer’s Take – Stockpickr – Rating) is the best bank out there. It sees all the deal flow, and both major political parties are full of formerGoldman executives. Goldman has consistently generated great […]

The New York banking titan has created a joint venture between two of its corporate and investment banking business — capital markets and transaction services — to better cater to this much sought-after, highly lucrative clientele. The news comes as […]

Easier Finance – Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has warned about some of the risks of direct investment in hedge funds, thrown into sharp relief by the collapse of multi-strategy hedge fundAmaranth Advisors last September. “Perhaps the most critical lesson […]

Baltimore Sun — 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 […]

CFO.com — Considering how much havoc activist hedge funds can wreak on the best-laid corporate plans and the careers of senior management, finance chiefs would do well to be on high alert when such investors gain power in their companies, […]

London – Jeremy Tigue has begun moving his talismanic Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust into the realm of hedge funds in a bid to diversify the global growth vehicle. The first steps have been taken, with purchases of Amsterdam-listed MW […]

Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, said Thursday that both hedge funds and private equity funds are good for financial markets, dismissing recent attacks on thesectors. Speaking at a U.K. House of Commons all party parliamentary group […]

April 1, 2007 – To regulate or not to regulate hedge funds? That is the question now being hotly debated following a government group’s recent report asserting that the hedge fund industry needs no further government regulation and that these […]