Reuters – Britain’s financial watchdog is concerned that retail investors can, via the Internet, access hedge funds set up in Germany and so by-pass UK controls on the high-risk products, its chiefexecutive said on Wednesday. Hedge funds seek high returns […]

The Phoenixville Phoenix -The Greenwich-Van Global Hedge Fund Index (“GVGHFI” or the “Index”) gained +2.0% in November, while the Greenwich-Van Composite Investable Index (“Investable Index”) gained +1.2%, according to hedge fund index provider Greenwich-Van Advisors, LLC (Greenwich-Van). “Many hedge fund […]

The Business – HEDGE funds now control $1 trillion in assets. But too much money may be chasing too few good opportunities. The likely outcome is a shake-out. Last week brought the latest sign of animpending hangover: Tremont Capital Management, […]

Reuters – The credit derivatives market is set to continue its blistering rate of growth in 2006, bankers and investors say, but regulators will keep a sharp eye on its progress. The benign investment environment of the past three years […]

New Regulatory Environment Causes Managers to Select Larger Administrators SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC – News), a leading global provider of asset management services and investment technology solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Kinetics Advisers to provide fund administration […]

Reuters – A British hedge fund and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) reached a settlement onTuesday in a court case challenging the procedure Shell chose to buy out minority shareholders in its former Dutch parent. The court case […]

Haaretz – A Tel Aviv judge gave gem merchant Boaz Manor three days to deliver $11.6 million worth of precious stones and metals to his company’s receiver in Israel, or face arrest. Manor, known in better times as the hedge […]

Telegraph.co.uk – Hedge funds are sitting on damaging multi-million pound losses after betting last month that Virgin Mobile was overvalued and that its share price would fall. Following disappointing results from Vodafone and gloomy high street sentiment, hedge funds sold […]

Reuters – American International Group Inc. (AIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it will begin insuring hedge fund managers against liability from certain regulatory investigations andinvestor lawsuits. The new insurance, offered by a unit of AIG, will be offered […]

Wall Street Journal – Good news for Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley: The senator and congressman whose names were affixed to Congress’s corporate-reform legislation have been knocked out of firstplace on the list of bogeymen haunting the corporate boardroom. The […]

Reuters – Companies and private investors flush with record amounts of cash will take advantage of persistently low interest rates and spur increased merger activity next year, according to a newforecast from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The companies in the Standard & Poor’s […]

Reuters – Credit investors are betting more and more that the weakest participants in the U.S. housing market may begin to falter as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, market participantssaid on Monday. Many hedge funds in recent months have […]