IT Directors – The hedge fund industry is maturing in a number of ways. It is one of the major recognised “alternative forms of investment”, perhaps better described as one of the major established forms of alternative investment. Funds are […]

Reuters – Sizeler Property Investors Inc. is facing increased pressure from a hedge fund shareholder to reject a deal to sell itself to Revenue Properties Co., according to a regulatory filing onWednesday. Kenner, Louisiana-based Sizeler, a real estate investment trust […]

Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings are developing criteria to evaluate the soundness of hedge funds in response to appeals for transparency from investors and regulators as inflows surge. Systems are being developed to appraise hedge funds […]

Reuters – Barclay Group, which compiles performance data about the hedge fund industry, on Tuesday said it acquired the Alternative Asset Center (AAC) database, creating what it said was the world’slargest such information source. Fairfield, Iowa-based Barclay, currently tracks performance […]

Yahoo Finance -Amber Partners Ltd., an independent specialist in hedge fund operational risk, today announced they have completed their 28th operational certification since the company’s launch inNovember 2005. Completed certifications represent approximately US$30 billion in total assets under management, with […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Specialised debt and hedge funds are the lenders for up to half of the leveraged loans syndicated in Europe, Close Brothers said, which questioned how the funds would behave if borrowers were to run into trouble. Banks […]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Mutual funds billed as one-stop shops for yield-hungry investors searching stock and bond markets for income are on the rise. Called “funds of funds,” they don’t hold individual securities but instead own several other strategically selected […]

TMCnet – HIGH yield bond fund managers are becoming worried about the tendency of private equity bidders to buy a company then borrow massively in order to pay themselves large dividends. Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s recently claimed that […]

New York Sun – It’s a city of nearly 8 million where Mayor Bloomberg owns a townhouse. Paul McCartney, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Madonna all own homes here, too. It competed to host the 2012 OlympicGames. Architects Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, […]

Forbes – Hedge funds and other investors in GUS PLC this week will try to derail its planned demerger of catalogue retailer Argos from credit checking group Experian, according to a report. Holders of the company’s bonds plan to ignore […]

Monterey County Herald – The activist hedge fund manager who tried to get McDonald’s Corp. to spin off company-owned restaurants last year is eyeing the fast-food company again. The news sentMcDonald’s shares to a new six-year high. McDonald’s said in […]

Cayman Net News – At a high-powered legal forum held in Cayman recently, attorneys and professionals in the financial field, from the Caribbean and other jurisdictions, heard about Cayman’s lead in the area of hedge funds and also, how imminent […]