LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds are increasingly looking to derivatives to give them low-cost exposure to booming emerging market stocks, a global brokerage firm said on Wednesday. Many hedge funds prefer to use derivatives such as contracts for difference because […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 8, 2005–Pi Capital Inc. will launch this month Pi Cap U.S. Equity Long/Short Growth Fund, Ltd., an offshore long/short equity hedge fund open tointernational investors. Pi Capital has retained Bear Stearns as the fund’s prime broker […]

Love em or hate em. No one can deny the impact that hedge funds have had on the institutional equities business in recent years and will continue to have. That influence was subtly highlighted only last month when mutual fund […]

BOSTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – October was a miserable month for many hedge funds because most lost money, but new data show the losses were not as high as some investors feared after big funds were hit by moves in […]

A San Francisco-based hedge fund has been steadily buying Reynolds and Reynolds Co. stock and is now the largest shareholder, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. ValueAct Capital Partners LP, which has a reputation for buying […]

Hedge funds received a net $12.7 billion from investors in the third quarter, an increase of 9.5 percent from the previous three months, as investment returns improved, according to Tremont Capital Management Inc. “Third-quarter performance was up about 5.9 percent, […]

www.reuters.com – LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds want a merger between European bourse operator Euronext and rival Deutsche Boerse because it would create thebest value for investors, hedge fund sources said. Last year Deutsche Boerse made a bid for the […]

www.thestreet.com  Speculation can take different forms. You can reach for big returns in far-flung lands, invest in sectors with a lot of historicalvolatility, or eschew diversification by betting all your money on a single stock. Gazinvest, a hedge fund based […]

Independent directors are finding themselves increasingly in demand from hedge funds whose growing list of institutional clients require a greater degree of assurance that their investment is protected, a trend particularly prevalent in the Cayman Islands where the majority of […]

Short sellers are having one of their rare days in the sun. These professional contrarians, who bet that stocks will fall in price, are among the best-performing hedge fund managers this year. Short sellers have fared particularly well in recent […]

JERUSALEM — Boaz Manor, co-founder of collapsed investment company Portus Alternative Asset Management Ltd., has pleaded through his lawyer to receiver KPMG Inc. to reconsider moves towards placing the company into bankruptcy. In the first communication from Mr. Manor’s Tel […]

The battle for control of Bloomfield-based Kaman Corp. has ended, and for the first time in 50 years all shareholders will have a voice in how the company is run. A hedge fund that filed suit against Kaman to block […]