Reuters.uk – Foreign exchange trading volumes rose in 2005, with increased turnover from asset managers, pension funds and retail traders making up for a lull in hedge fund activity, a surveyreleased on Monday showed. Global currency trading volume reported to […]

Houston Chronicle – Houston Exploration is in for a bare-knuckled brawl with a New York investor that has publicly slammed the energy outfit for “shocking disregard to the pursuit of shareholdervalue.” What’s the beef? Jana Partners, a $5 billion hedge […]

Trading Markets – When therapists first meet with their clients, they do a lot of listening. What they’re listening for are themes–patterns that run through people’s lives. Sometimes these themes are ones of emotion: people feel certain ways in particular […]

Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Everything seemed to be going great for an innovative investment made by the city’s retirement fund in early 2004. In fact, after just four months, the pension fund wastold that it had earned more than $230,000 […]

New York Daily News – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may be known as the “sheriff of Wall Street,” but there’s at least one group of high rollers – hedge fund managers – thathe’s happy to ride sidesaddle with, records show. […]

Times Online – I have no idea what a hedge fund is, but after a day trip to Mustique last week I think I need to plant one. At first I couldn’t quite work out whether this privately owned island […]

Stamford Advocate – Last month, Eric Meyer was at a hedge fund conference in Dubai, speaking to a room filled with asset managers — about half from the United States and a good number from lower Fairfield County. “What is […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Insiders are forecasting a fully connected and transformed financial markets industry by 2015, as three rapidly emerging forces combine to create a rate of changeunseen since the 1970s. And, in a notable new twist, […]

Reporting is all about absolute return these days, which is no surprise to most small investors. While all the chart comparisons of risk, return, and performance are compared to some benchmark, what the client really wants to know is one […]

Globe and Mail – Traders, advisers and fund managers — the middle men that stand between investors and their money — are a becoming a dying breed as massive changes brought on by the need for speedand transparency sweep through […]

Boston Globe – New federal filings show that Massachusetts financial firms help manage more than $150 billion in hedge funds and other private investments, about 10 percent of the $1.5 trillion that the Securities and Exchange Commission estimates is held […]

Bloomberg – The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Chinese territory’s only legal gambling forum, is raising its bets on hedge funds. The club, which leads investing trends in Hong Kong, has amassed $164 million in the loosely regulated funds since […]