( The Hartford Courant – www.courant.com )  Hedge funds have become part of the cultural landscape. But many who use the term – including some would-beinvestors – do not understand what, exactly, a hedge fund is. Hedge funds began as investment […]

( www.redherring.com ) – Lending money to fast-growing startup companies that could fizzle out as quickly as they caught flame may not be thesafest investment approach in the world, but it’s a money-making strategy that seems pretty staid compared to the kind […]

( www.forbes.com )  NEW YORK – Investors are opportunists, and both love bankruptcies. The airline industry is obliging all of them. Hedge funds and private equity groups are flocking to take on securities whose value is backed by leases on […]

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Man Group (EMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it had cooperated with the receiver of a collapsed U.S. hedge fund firm and that it was surprised by his motion for the London-listed financial company […]

(The Guardian) Man Group is the most phenomenal money machine the City has seen for decades. Its trick was to catch the rise of hedge funds at their outset in the 1980s and pursue the growth of these”alternative” investments at […]

( www.thestreet.com ) – Paul Atkins, the SEC commissioner who tried and failed to block a rule requiring hedge fund registration, continues to rail against the notion that 500 agency examiners can effectively regulate 8,000 private partnerships. “You can’t put […]

Oct. 3 (Bloomberg- John Wasik) — Suppose you wanted to invest in hedge funds and your principal was guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.? At first blush, this sounds like an easy way to anchor a risky investment within […]

( www.netassets.co.za )  Some of the world’s most heinous atrocities have been committed in the name of religion. However, many of the world’s most caring acts of love and compassion have also been attributed to religion. The term “hedge fund” […]

NEW YORK – Yet another hedge fund manager has gone tilting at windmills, this one calling for the break up of Citigroup into four distinct publicly tradedcompanies. The idea (or dream, more like) is not lost to investors, who have […]

BOSTON –The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Massachusetts hedge-fund manager, a former Citizens Bank employee and three other defendants with trading on advance knowledge of Citizens Financial Group Inc.’s 2004 announcement that it was acquiring Charter One Financial Inc., netting […]

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Investors in Bayou Group, whose top executives pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $450 million fraud Thursday, are undoubtedly wondering how they could’ve gotten sucked in by the Connecticut hedge fund shop. Founder Samuel Israel III and […]

(www.ft.com) Financial Times – It’s like entering Brigadoon,” says a friend as we drive through the gates of Judy and Michael Steinhardt’s 55-acre estate inWestchester, New York, one misty summer day. “An almost mystical experience.” To me, it is more […]