JPMorgan has unseated Goldman Sachs as the world’s largest manager of hedge fund assets, with $34bn under management, according to a new survey. The poll conducted by Absolute Return magazine, an industry publication, said JPMorgan’s hedge fund assets grew almost […]

Hedge funds are positioned to profit from the forthcoming sale of Landesbank Berlin regardless of who buys the bank, according to people involved in the auction. Their actions could also reduce the amount of cash that the city of Berlin […]

Last week was a pretty typical one for corporate activity: an investment bank was subject to a call for break-up; an investment trust escaped an attempt to unseat its board; a media company ditchedits chairman and chief executive. And central […]

March 5- Steven Roukis, who helps manage $1.7 billion for Matrix Asset Advisors Inc., says he often spent as much as half an hour on the phone with Wall Street analysts five years ago. Today, Matrix handles twice as much […]

The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) has released a set of principles and guidelines for US regulators in their handling of hedge funds and privateequity organisations. These have moved away from the US norm of tight, formal regulations […]

F&C, whose flagship Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust was the first such investment vehicle of its type, has announced plans to give investors access to a portfolio of hedge funds through a new listed investment company. The launch, which combines […]

Billionaire and Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson has formed a new yet unnamed fund company with African American asset managers in mind. Johnson says his new hedge fund venture with Deutsche Bank AG is designed to create opportunities […]

NEW YORK, March 1 (Reuters) – More hedge fund managers are turning bearish on prospects for the U.S. dollar and U.S. equities, and see prices falling for both sectors this month, a survey released onThursday showed. The monthly sentiment survey, […]

With hedge fund returns averaging 10% for 2006 and with assets soaring to over $1.2 trillion dollars there is about $700 billion invested into hedge funds through fund vehicles. As many hedge funds continue to increase their leverage in pursuit […]

Hedge funds, somewhat like mutual funds but without much of the burdensome regulation and responsibility, are attracting huge investments, and throwing that weight around. Recently, hedge funds havebeen pushing to gain access to a European bond trading network, and a […]

Greece – The first start-up independent Asian hedge fund to begin with more than $1bn is expected to launch in the coming weeks, people familiar with the situation said, signalling a watershed for the asset class in the region. The […]

Private equity firms are blackballing or banning credit hedge funds from participating in the leveraged loans and high yield bonds that back their buyouts and recapitalisations. The move is the latest sign of growing tensions between the two. While blackballing […]