BusinessWeek – On a good day for homebuilder issues, shares of mortgage lenders fell on new worries about borrowers’ ability to pay. What was good news in the market for homebuilders on Jan. 17 didn’t carry through for mortgage lenders, […]

Financial Times – It’s just not the kind of the thing you hear every day. Individual investors are protesting against the SEC’s proposal to raise the investment threshold for anyone who wants to invest in hedge funds in the United […]

Boston Globe – Everybody’s getting into hedge funds, including Bill Galvin. The Massachusetts secretary of state, who also happens to be the state’s top securities regulator, clearly had the hedge-fund industry in his sights at the start of this year. […]

Chicago Tribune – Some individual investors want the Securities and Exchange Commission to know that they can take care of themselves. Accusing the watchdog agency of sins ranging from paternalism to outright discrimination against the less-than-fabulously wealthy, dozens of investors […]

OregonLive.com -The Oregon Investment Council on Wednesday tiptoed closer to putting public pension money to work in riskier investment vehicles such as hedge funds and commodities. At the same time, the council shied away — for the time being — […]

Reuters – Over 450 hedge funds went out of business in 2006, capping a year during which Amaranth Advisors LLC liquidated after bad bets on natural gas cost the firm $6.6 billion, the biggest singleloss ever at a hedge fund. […]

Turkish Daily News – European Union and G8 president Germany backed away from proposing regulation of the $1.7 trillion hedge fund industry, after opposition from some EU states and the bloc’s topfinancial regulator. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck told a […]

Chicago Tribune – The mother of actor Vince Vaughn must pay a $200,000 civil penalty as part of an agreement reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the management of her Lake Foresthedge fund company, Directors Financial Group Ltd. […]

NEW YORK — An investment product designed to copy the performance of the high-stakes hedge fund universe is struggling to live up to its copycat billing. Responding to the growing popularity of hedge funds, investors have gravitated to index funds […]

Forbes – HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) – Hedge funds’ activity needs to be monitored closely because their ‘risk-taking . . . is often excessive,’ the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said. It cited as an example US-based fund Amaranth Advisors which […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Institutional investors expected to pour another $25 billion into commodities this year are steadily building new long positions in energy markets amid selling pressure from hedge funds and other speculators. An infusion of cash by pension […]

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – A voluntary code of conduct by the hedge fund industry would be an important first step towards better oversight of this fast-growing segment of the financial markets, European Central Bank Governing Council member Axel Weber told […]