Royal Gazette – A mood of caution has subdued high-risk hedge funds after losses stemming from a more than 25 percent fall in oil prices and as typically conservative pensions and banks look to makeuse of them. The highest profile […]

MSN Money – 20th Century Fox is set to announce a hedge fund-backed film financing deal worth more than $520m thanks to the box office success of Borat and The Devil Wears Prada. The agreement, which comes amid increasing hedge […]

Reuters.uk – Funds of hedge funds are likely to change how they operate and offer more tailor-made advice as institutional clients become more confident about investing directly in the $1.7 trillion(900 billion pounds) hedge fund industry, a consultant said on […]

Seeking Alpha – Scammy and Danny Bayou still await sentencing on charges associated with the collapse of their corrupt hedge fund – formerly based in the eponymous Scamford, Conn. – but the investorswho thought they’d safely escaped the pair’s clutches […]

Reuters.uk – Investors may want to quickly pull out of hedge funds if global economic conditions turn sour, showing the risks of a recent trend of contracts tying clients into funds for long periods,industry executives warned. The periods over which […]

Reuters – While hedge funds charge high fees, too many of them earn modest investment returns, and the majority do not deliver better rewards than can be gained from the wider market, industryexecutives said on Tuesday. “The real problem is […]

Seeking Alpha – The word is out that the hedge funds are circling Yahoo and Terry Semel. Valleywag is reporting that several prominent hedge funds are smelling blood in the water. Fred Wilson andEric Savitz picked up on this a […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission expects to file more lawsuits aimed at hedge funds accused of illegal trading and violating their clients’ trust, the agency’s chief enforcer said on Monday. At the same time, a senior official at the New […]

MarketWatch – Max Re Capital slashed the amount of money it’s willing to invest in hedge funds after the Bermuda-based reinsurer’s alternative investment portfolio lost $31 million during the third quarter. Net income came in at $26.5 million, or 42 […]

Times Online – SIR ANDREW LARGE attacked London’s ban on listed hedge funds as “anachronistic” yesterday as he was named chairman of a record-breaking new €1 billion (£675 million) hedge fundfloating in Amsterdam. The former Bank of England Deputy Governor […]

Sun-Sentinel.com – Nabi Biopharmaceuticals said Monday it has reached a settlement with New York hedge fund Third Point LLC, which wanted to oust five Nabi board members, including Chief ExecutiveThomas McLain. “A truce has been called, at least through the […]

Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Marshall Wace LLP plans to raise as much as 1.5 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in an initial public offering of a hedge fund, the largest such sale. The London-based hedge-fund manager will sell shares of MW […]