Reuters – Hedge funds increased their assets to $1.025 trillion at the end of June this year, up 18 percent year-on-year, and Europe accounted for an increasing share, according to Dexia AssetManagement. Europe accounted for $279 billion (156 billion pounds) […]

Telegraph – GLG Partners, one of London’s biggest hedge funds, and Philippe Jabre, one of its top traders, are under investigation by the Financial Services Authority. The news that GLG, which has $11.5billion (£6.5billion) of funds under management, is the […]

Globe and Mail – On Tuesday, outgoing EnCana Corp. chief executive officer Gwyn Morgan blamed hedge fund managers — with their obsession for short-term returns — for spreading the takeover rumours that whipsawed his company’s stock. Yesterday, it emerged that […]

One of the largest shareholders in Delphi is appealing against court restrictions on trading in the shares of the bankrupt US car parts maker. Appaloosa Partners, a hedge fund that bought a 9.3 per cent stake in the component manufacturer […]

NEW YORK — Water Island Capital, LLC, adviser to The Arbitrage Fund, is proud to announce that the Fund has achieved its five-year track record effective September 19, 2005. Over the last fiveyears, as of September 30, 2005, the $200 […]

Not since the last stock market bull run in 1998 have South Africa’s investment professionals been so mobile. “High levels of staff turnover have shaken up the asset management industry over the past year with hedge funds and emerging black […]

Yale’s endowment, which topped $15 billion this year, may see one of its most significant sources of investment returns wane if the market follows predicted trends. Leading Yale economists and investment officials recently echoed national concerns that hedge funds — […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to exempt some investment firms from federal oversight as it prepares to start regulating the $1 trillion hedge fund industry. “There has been a lot of discussion about that recently,” Lori Richards, […]

Bloomberg: Gold rose on speculation hedge funds may increase their holdings of the precious metal after prices fell 3 percent from a 17-year high. Gold for immediate delivery traded at $466.40 an ounce at 11:48 a.m. Sydney time, down from […]

Globe and Mail: Bring on the world. Canadian pension fund managers are ready to embrace new investing strategies as they deal with the stubborn problem of underfunded retirement plans. Despite several strong years from Canadian stock markets, most domestic pension […]

Investors have increased the amount of money in hedge funds by 30 percent in the past 12 months, to $1.37 trillion as of the end of September, according to a survey of 44 fund administrators by HedgeFund Manager magazine.The gain […]

MSNBC: Twice as many Japanese institutional investors use hedge funds as US institutions, contradicting their reputation for being among the most conservative investors, new research will reveal thisweek. The research from Greenwich Associates, the financial consultancy, says that at the […]