Bloomberg – Everywhere you look these days, people are scrambling for energy supplies. China is scouring the world, from the oil sands of Alberta to the oilfields of Iran. Morgan Stanley and other investment banks have spent hundreds of millions […]

Reuters – U.S. financial regulators took a one-two punch on Friday that might leave their efforts to regulate the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry in shambles. “The regulatory landscape that the SEC has so carefully cultivated is now seriously in […]

NEW YORK – U.S. regulators are investigating Pequot Capital Management, a $7 billion hedge fund, for possible insider trading, The New York Times said on Friday, citing government officials briefed on the case. A lawyer who once led the Securities […]

WHEN KKR Private Equity Investors raised $5 billion in Amsterdam for a publicly traded buyout fund, inspired fee-seeking competitors lined up to follow suit. When the markets started melting soon after the May offering, most of those competitors moved to […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo prosecutors indicted high-profile fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami on Friday on charges of insider trading in a deal involving scandal-hit Internet firm Livedoor. Murakami, a former trade bureaucrat known for aggressively squeezing value out of the companies […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Raw material and stock prices are likely to move together in reaction to short-term shocks, but over the longer term commodities help to hedge investment portfolios, a conference heard on Wednesday. Over the past few weeks commodity […]

June 23 (Bloomberg) — After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told. It probably won’t be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that struck emerging-economy […]

WASHINGTON – The financial world has been suffering lately from Post-Greenspan Stress Disorder. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has been accident-prone, and some investors have gotten the jitters. They might be reassured if they paid more […]

Jun 23, 2006 — BOSTON (Reuters) – Pequot Capital Management on Friday said its trading has always been proper and denied any wrongdoing, after the New York Times reported that U.S. regulators are investigating the $7 billion hedge fund for possible […]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — In a blow to the government’s move to regulate hedge funds, a federal court threw out a rule requiring advisers of those investment pools to register with regulators as investment advisers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

CFO.com – In the past week or so, at least three hedge funds have made formal tender offers for three different companies. These three funds, as well as a number of other private investmentpartnerships, have been setting aside assets to […]

Boston Globe – Six Boston firms rank among the top 100 hedge funds in the country, according to the annual ranking by Alpha magazine. Wellington Management Co. led the Boston contingent on the list in a three-way tie for the […]