The Dallas Morning News –  Hedge fund investors aren’t your typical investors. In fact, you need to qualify as an “accredited investor” before you’re able to invest in many funds of hedge funds – investment companies that invest in hedge […]

No one in the hedge fund community would risk saying it publicly, but some hedge fund money managers are claiming the Securities and Exchange Commission is on a vendetta against the $1.2 trillion industry. In the past few weeks, the […]

April 3 (Bloomberg) — Werner Seifert, who quit as chief executive officer of Deutsche Boerse AG less than a year ago, compares the investors who pushed for his departure to a plague of locusts in a book published today. Seifert […]

Finance Asia – Morgan Stanley’s survey of institutional investors finds they are pickier about hedge fund managers – and keener on Asia and Japan strategies. Growing up is never easy. A Morgan Stanley survey of global hedge fund trends, based […]

Many investors would say that venture capital trusts are lower risk than hedge funds, but they would be wrong. A fund of hedge funds, run by an experienced fund manger who knows how to balance levelsof risk, can be far […]

Boston Globe – A new hedge fund registration rule has created extra burdens for the Securities and Exchange Commission without protecting investors, one of the agency’s Republican commissioners saidyesterday. The new rule has proven ”costly and ineffective,” commissioner Paul S. […]

MarketWatch – The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged securities broker and investment adviser Global Crown Capital LLC with fraudulently hiding from investors the trading losses of hedge fund Cogent Capital Management. The agency alleges that Rani Jarkas and […]

Reuters – A group of private equity and hedge fund managers appear to be near to buying the international assets of Enron Corp. for close to $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The group seems to be […]

Investors Business Daily – Man Group, the world’s largest publicly-traded hedge fund manager, said Friday that its pretax profit will outpace analyst estimates thanks to stronger-than-forecastperformance fee income. Man Group (EMGEMG) said profit before tax and exceptional items for the […]

Reuters – British fund firm New Star Asset Management (NSAM.L: Quotazione, Profilo) said on Friday its full-year earnings rose 82 percent in 2005, beating most analysts’ forecasts. The firm, founded by John Duffield in 2000, said operating earnings before tax, […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Yale University helped Christopher Hohn build one of Europe’s most successful and activist hedge funds. Now Yale’s $500 million investment and Mr. Hohn’s firm are partingcompany, according to people familiar with the matter. It is a split […]

MarketWatch – The Department of Justice on Wednesday unsealed a March 10 criminal complaint against Kirk Wright, charging him with mail fraud relating to the collapse of hedge funds he managed. An arrest warrant has been issued for Wright, 35, […]