Hartford Courant – The corporate mergers-and-acquisitions business has been so strong during the first two months of 2006 that investment bankers are predicting a record year for deals. The year has already brought Boston Scientific Corp.’s $27.2 billion acquisition of […]

Financial Times – Charlemagne Capital, the emerging market and hedge fund management group, is expected to announce this week its intention to float on the Alternative Investment Market. The company, which has about $4bn (£2.3bn) under its control, is expected […]

MarketWatch – A record number of hedge funds launched and liquidated in 2005, suggesting that the industry remains buoyant but increasingly competitive, Hedge Fund Research said Tuesday. HFR, which tracks hedge-fund performance, said that 2,073 funds started last year, while […]

Reuters – Investors, who funneled millions into an Atlanta hedge fund firm, will hire private detectives to help find a missing manager who has been accused of cheating clients out of $100 million ormore, a lawyer said on Tuesday. The […]

San Diego Union Tribune – The head of a San Diego hedge-fund partnership that lost up to $60 million of investor funds pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit mail fraud infederal court in San Diego. Marvin […]

Newark Star Ledger – When he isn’t dealing with distressed assets, Timothy Wheeler rocks. A bankruptcy lawyer with Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, Wheeler is the lead singer for the Subscribers, a rock group comprised mostly of professionals in the hedge-fund […]

MarketWatch – French regulators are investigating trades in a portfolio managed by a founding partner at hedge-fund company GLG Partners LP, according to a media report Tuesday. The investigation is as part of a broader probe into whether several large […]

MSNBC – The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating allegations by two companies that an independent research firm conspired with hedge funds to drive down their stock prices. The chief US regulator has launched an informal probe into claims by […]

Investors Business Daily – In the latest sign that the private-equity and hedge-fund businesses are converging, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is launching a hedge fund. The KKR Strategic Capital Fund will focus on debt investments, according to Roanne Kulakoff, […]

MSNBC – BNP Paribas plans to increase the number of staff in its equity derivatives business in the UK by at least 20 per cent this year to tap growing demand from hedge funds and private banking clients. The bank […]

San Bernardino County Sun – Currency trading used to be a strategy employed by only the wealthiest investors and hedge funds, but a growing number of mutual and exchange traded funds make itpossible for individuals to try it for themselves, […]

Investors Business Daily – TechTeam Global Inc. said Monday it would fight a hedge fund’s attempt to replace its board of directors, saying the move isn’t in the long-term interests of shareholders. Costa Brava Partnership III LP moved last week […]