National Post – It has been a quiet month on the surface for Canadian Tire Corp. since New York hedge fund manager William Ackman stirred up a flurry of interest in the retailer. But behind the scenes, a report on […]

Times Union – Hedge funds seem so glamorous, but small investors who lack the money for their minimum investments and hefty management fees shouldn’t shed a tear — hedge funds’ recent performancejust doesn’t look that stellar. <a href=”http://ads.timesunion.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.timesunion.com/aspstories/story.asp/storyid=496745/category=business/bccode=/newsdate=7/3/2006/174416315555/608549259/x10/TimesU/KimberleysBillboard-June06/071905kimberleys300x250-NewDay.html/35346230356232323434613866376530?http://www.kimberlysadayspa.com/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/800/14845/1150818399/oasc04.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/TimesU/KimberleysBillboard-June06/071905kimberleys300x250.jpg” […]

Forbes – The SEC’s hedge fund registration requirement was ill-conceived, did not serve to protect investors and met a well-deserved fate at the hands of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. First, the “secret world of hedge funds” […]

HMC International, a hedge fund based in Montvale, boasted of returns in excess of 30 percent in 2003 and 2004. Those are fairly impressive re sults for most investments. But it was particularly noteworthy for HMC, mainly because authorities say […]

The Sunday Times – AN American hedge fund has launched a ferocious attack on the chairman of African Platinum (Afplats), the AIM-listed mining company, sparking an international row. North Sands, based in Connecticut, has in the past two weeks built […]

National Post – When Derek Webb started a long/short Canadian hedge fund early in June, he said he would go long and short both Canadian stocks and income trusts. Forensic accountant Al Rosen of Rosen & Associates in Toronto views […]

Globe and Mail – If things continue the way they have, 2006 could once again be the Year of the Hedge in the mutual fund world. The final numbers are still trickling in but as we cross the year’s halfway […]

Standard & Poor’s, which runs some of the world’s most widely followed equity indexes, hasn’t fared as well in its efforts to track the performance of hedge funds. S&P said earlier this week that it will stop publishing its investable […]

NewsFactor Network – While writing a story today on a Wall Street analyst’s prediction that Apple will be late in shipping its new iPod Nano, I noticed the effect the report had on Apple’sstock. Naturally, Apple fell on Wednesday. The […]

Street.Com – It may not be healthy for kids to gorge themselves on McDonald’s Happy Meals, but corporate America is certainly indulging. The corporate “happy meal” has nothing to do with burgers, fries or movie-themed toys. Rather, companies are financing […]

Rocky Mountain News – A former government attorney told Congress on Wednesday that he was fired last summer after he tried to subpoena a prominent Wall Street executive to testify in aninsider-trading investigation of a major hedge fund. Attorney Gary […]

Reuters.uk – Paul Kim, a fund manager at IMS, told Reuters he has increased exposure to absolute return-oriented portfolios because he believes the stock market will remain turbulent this summer. Kim, a multi-manager who co-manages around 4 billion pounds in […]