Tag Archives: hedge fund


Bridgewater remains largest hedge fund firm, AR survey finds

MarketWatch – Soros Fund Management had $24 billion in assets at the start of July, up more than 14% from the end of 2008 and more than 41% from a year earlier. That made the firm the fifth-largest in the […]

Castle Hall Alternatives Publishes White Paper on Hedge Fund Operational Failures

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund operational due diligence provider, Castle Hall Alternatives, published its latest White Paper, ‘From Manhattan to Madoff: the Causes and Lessons of Hedge Fund Operational Failure.’ The Paper’s analysis and findings are based on […]

Mizuho Corp aims to boost size of CTA fund to $1 bln

Reuters – Japan’s Mizuho Corporate Bank said it aims to expand the size of a hedge fund managed by its U.S. unit eight times over to 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in five years by attracting money from domestic pension […]

Bad Boy of Hedge Funds

Forbes – Polygon’s Reade Griffith is a poster child for what’s wrong with the hedge fund industry these days. A year ago, Griffith, heading into a disastrous year where he wound up losing 48%, gated investors, barring them from yanking […]

US takes row over EU hedge funds directive to Brussels

A delegation of American congressmen is flying into Brussels this week to dispel mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe over hedge funds. Worries centre on the European Commission’s directive on alternative investment fund managers. The hedge fund industry […]

London Mayor Fights for Hedge Fund Rights

The New York Times – London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, an advocate of protecting the city’s financial sector from over-regulation, will take the fight to protect Britain’s hedge fund and private equity industry to Brussels this Wednesday, The Daily Telegraph reported. […]

Barneys eyes restructuring or bankruptcy -report

Forbes – Barneys New York Inc is eyeing a debt restructuring or bankruptcy filing under which its owner, Dubai’s Istithmar World Capital, may lose control of the high-end retailer, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Hedge fund Perry […]

Sparx Group Opens Hedge Fund With Soros Strategy

Bloomberg – Sparx Group Co., Asia’s biggest hedge-fund firm, will open its first global macro hedge fund to new investors as the company departs from its traditional focus on equities to return to profit. Cayman Island-based Sparx Global Markets Fund […]

Sure, Throw Your Money In This ‘Hedge Fund’

Tubefilter news – Do you know what a Hedge Fund is? I don’t. And neither do the boys at the Claude S. Dutchy, LLC hedge fund. But, damnit, they’re determined to make it rich enough to race Lamborghinis, orbit earth […]

India-specific hedge funds among top global performers

The Hindu Business Line – Hedge funds investing in India are now among the top performers globally, after languishing at the bottom of the charts, hit by poor returns and outflows in 2008. Inflows into India specific hedge funds, however, […]

Goldman Sachs’s Hedge Fund Report

Seeking Alpha – Here’s an excellent in-depth read from Goldman Sachs that ties directly into our tracking of hedge fund movements. And we say this because the majority of their data was taken from SEC filings and public disclosures, exactly […]

Ex-UBS Bankers’ New Japan Hedge Fund Gains 14% Since July Start

Bloomberg – Akito Fund, a Japan-focused hedge fund set up by former UBS AG bankers, returned 14 percent since its July start, beating benchmarks on investments in smaller companies including Geo Corp. and Yellow Hat Ltd. Koichiro Yamaguchi and Tetsuya […]