State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), the world’s leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, released today its third institutional investor hedge fund study. State Street conducted the study late last year in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return […]

Farallon Capital Management LLC disclosed talks to buy Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. before extending it a loan, joining rival hedge funds in the hunt for mortgage assets at bargain prices. Farallon said in a regulatory filing today that takeover […]

India – The yen and hedge funds are at centre stage, but what will happen if China diversifies into holding the yen.   In an earlier article, I had referred to the large bets of hedge funds in the “carry […]

Hartford, Conn. — Hedge fund growth is fueling a striking increase in the number of investment jobs in Connecticut, state officials report. The number of jobs in Connecticut, long a magnet for the investment industry because of its proximity to […]

A group of hedge funds that holds Northwest Airlines Corp. stock is asking the bankruptcy court to delay a ruling on the company’s request to conduct a rights offering to raise up to $750 million to fund its bankruptcy exit. […]

Frankfurt (AFX) – Commerzbank AG is planning to expand its business of funds of hedge funds and aims to increase funds it has under management to 4-5 bln eur in the medium term, the head of Alternative Investment Strategies at […]

   A draft research paper by several U.S. professors shows that activist hedge funds create shareholder value through their interventions, especially for more aggressive forms such as a sale of the company, change in business strategy, or a restructuring (like […]

Washington –  The possibility of limiting pension fund involvement in hedge funds was raised last week by legislators and hedge fund industry representatives at a hearing on Capitol Hill on howmuch risk hedge funds pose for financial markets. Limitation on […]

Edinburgh – Activist hedge funds pressing for corporate change tend to create more noise than value and can make it harder for companies to work out what shareholders are telling them, fund managerHermes said. Mark Anson, chief exective of Hermes, […]

The lure of the much-feared participatory notes, through which hedge funds now invest in the Indian stock markets, may soon wane.   The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the capital markets regulator, has for the first time directly […]

Washington – This much they could agree on: Hedge funds are big, growing and increasingly influential in global financial markets.     But at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee last week, lawmakers appeared uncertain about how even to […]

Germany is pushing major economic powers to develop a plan to mitigate risk to the worldwide financial system posed by the rapid growth of hedge funds, but it probably won’t be ready when world leaders meet this summer, the country’s […]