Bloomberg – Henderson Group Plc, a London-based money manager, said first-half profit advanced 30 percent as it sold more high-fee investments such as hedge funds. The stock jumped 5.8 percent. Net income rose to 35.4 million pounds ($66.8 million), or […]

Easier.com – Francois Barthelemy, partner at F&C Partners LLP, the fund of hedge funds business, has expressed surprise at comments made this week by Joop Wijnt, the Dutch minister for theeconomy. In an outburst on Dutch radio Joop Wijnt accused […]

MSNBC – Several of the world’s largest ratings agencies are developing wide-ranging credit and risk ratings on hedge funds and their managers, pushing the $1,200bn hedge fund business further intothe investment mainstream. Hedge funds have been attracting investment from conservative […]

Biloxi Sun Herald – Fremont-based Pegasus Wireless Corp. (PGWC), a wireless solutions provider, issued today a notice to shareholders who are eligible to receive a previously announced propertydividend that the warrants are not transferable. Earlier this month, Pegasus announced a […]

Cayman Net News – The leading finance industry publication The Banker has given a ringing endorsement to the Cayman Islands as an international financial centre, and outlined an upbeat assessment of the jurisdiction’s outlook across a range of sectors. A […]

Canada.com – Memory-chip maker Mosaid Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) has rejected a dissenting U.S. shareholder’s demand that it immediately put itself on the auction block and warned Wednesday it’s ready for a fight if that’s what Loeb Partners Corp. wants. In […]

Reuters – Investors in commodities should look to actively managed hedge funds rather than passive indexes to get exposure to the asset class, UBS Wealth Management said on Wednesday. Actively managed funds can time buying and selling of securities to […]

Raw Story By Rohan Minogue, Amsterdam- The Netherlands is not new to foreign capital, but concerns were raised when it became known that US and British hedge funds had joined forces to pressureAhold, a grocer with a tradition stretching back […]

MSN MoneyCentral – WASHINGTON (AP) – A failed regulatory push by the Securities and Exchange Commission may leave a lasting impression on the hedge-fund industry, according to a Greenwich Associatessurvey to be released Wednesday. Hedge funds, which are investment pools […]

Reuters – Ahold (AHLN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research)(AHO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is ignoring requests for meetings with hedge funds Paulson & Co. Inc. andCentaurus Capital, which want to reshuffle the ailing Dutch retailer, a person familiar with the talks said. The […]

In just two days’ time, a hedge fund has managed to do for Gateway Inc. what its own earnings reports, pledges of growth in new markets and new CEO haven’t been able to do for months: get investors to once […]

Reading Eagle – When Nelson Peltz puts his money at risk in a company, he expects to shake things up. That was the case in his junk-bond fueled takeover of National Can Co. in 1985, his celebrated turnaround of soft-drink […]