Financial Times – The recent market turmoil has wrong-footed a wide swathe of hedge funds, many of which have seen their gains this year wiped out in the past few weeks, according to figures obtained by the Financial Times. Nearly […]

Times Online – CALLS to impose stiff rules on hedge funds intensified last night as Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney-general, told politicians that states were poised to join together todraw up their own regulations to govern the $1.2 trillion (£660 […]

BBC News – A hedge fund has emerged as one of the UK’s most generous philanthropists, says BBC business editor Robert Peston. Accounts just filed show the fund – The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI) – gave £50.4m to its charitable […]

Life Style Extra – The Financial Services Authority said it has increased the amount of data collected from hedge fund managers due to the significant proportion of London market equity volumes thatcan now be attributed to them. In the UK […]

HedgeWeek – In its decade-long rivalry with Dublin as the main European centres for cross-border border investment fund services, it’s generally acknowledged that Luxembourg missed a trick by failing in the mid- to late 1990s to spot the potential importance […]

Moneyweb – South Africa’s hedge fund industry is mushrooming, with assets under management more than doubling in the last 18 months to about R16,8bn. That number is expected to jump to R20bn by the end of the year and R30bn […]

Washington Post – A senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said on Monday he wants hearings on how to protect investors in hedge funds now that the $1.3 trillion industry has freed itselffrom regulation by the Securities and Exchange […]

Houston Chronicle – Houston Exploration has rejected a hedge funds’ offer to buy the company for $62 per share. In a written statement to Jana Partners, which owns 13 percent of the company’s shares, Chairman and CEO William Hargett said […]

Rocky Mountain News – Steve Atwater, the former Denver Broncos safety, and others have accused the National Football League and its players association of endorsing a fraudulent hedge fund managerwithout adequate background checks. The football players said in a June […]

International Herald Tribune – After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told.   It probably will not be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that […]

MSNBC – Gregg Eisenberg is betting big that investors will want to bet on him. The former chairman and president of Maverick Tube Corp. is making a comeback with Boomerang Holdings Inc., a Chesterfield-based blank-check company formed to acquire one […]

MSNBC – The Senate Judiciary Committee will on Tuesday hold a hearing into hedge funds and their use of independent analysts, an area under scrutiny following high-profile lawsuits by companies thathave been targeted by hedge fund short sellers. The issue […]