Reuters – Assets of Europe’s hedge funds rose by 23 percent in the first half of this year, shrugging off mediocre investment performance in May and June as institutions continued to pour into thesector, data showed on Monday. The European […]

Reuters – A former Manhattan hedge fund manager who pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges last week must defend herself against fraud and other claims in a civil lawsuit, a federal judge hasruled. Hilary Shane, 39, who was a […]

Record Searchlight – A decade ago, derivatives trading was the hot new thing, and people began to worry about the harm it might cause to investors and the health of thefinancial system. It wasn’t long before someone proposed regulating the […]

Morris County Daily Record – Hedge funds are a fine investment idea. They should not be hemmed in by excessive regulations, argues Phil Goldstein of Bulldog Investors, a groupof hedge funds in Saddle Brook. Goldstein, who successfully sued the Securities […]

Reuters – Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, said it expected fee income and earnings per share to have risen by about a third in the six months to the end of September, sendingits shares to a […]

Reuters – Financial regulators across the world need to work together to keep checks on the increasingly powerful $1.2 trillion (640 billion pound) hedge fund industry, China’s banking regulatoryhead said in remarks published on Thursday. “Regulators in all countries should […]

Times Online – LONDON’S biggest hedge fund managers are pulling away from the rest of the pack as investors favour larger players, according to a new ranking published today. Some big asset managers have produced asset growth of 50 per […]

MarketWatch – Pirate Capital LLC has lost several analysts and one portfolio manager this week after returns at the $1.7 billion activist hedge fund slipped this year. Two analysts, Zachary George and David Lorber, resigned on Tuesday and fixed-income portfolio […]

Financial News Online US – The US House of Representatives has approved a bill to commission a study on hedge funds that could result in greater disclosure for theindustry. The move follows calls from regulators to increase scrutiny in the […]

Bloomberg – Wherever you travel on the information highway, look out for factoids. These tricky little creatures are bits of supposed knowledge that nobody has bothered to verify. They take on the aura of truth as they are repeated by […]

MSN MoneyCentral – More than 100 hedge fund advisers have deregistered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the nearly three months since a federal appellate court rejected the agency’sefforts to regulate the $1.2 trillion industry. The SEC ruled that […]

Marketwatch – Phillip Goldstein warned the other day that the speech he was about to give to a bunch of hedge fund industry lawyers might be offensive. It was, and he made no apologies.   All of the attention Goldstein […]