Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

Reuters – Hedge funds, which tend to trade stocks more actively than institutional investors, have become the most important clients for many major brokerage firms, a new survey found, confirming awidely held view on Wall Street. The survey, conducted by […]

Insurance News Net – Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital is being sued again over allegations that the big hedge fund and other traders allegedly engaged in a scheme to manipulate and drive down the stock of Fairfax Financial(FFH:NYSE). The lawsuit by […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – In late 2002, the manager of Marshall Wace LLP, a large London hedge-fund firm, received two important phone calls from an investment bank that was about to unveil aclient’s offering of securities. Such an offering would be […]

MSN MoneyCentral -Man Group, the hedge fund manager and futures broker, signalled one of boldest attempts yet by hedge funds to enter the derivatives exchange business by taking a 70 per cent stakein Eurex US on Thursday. Eurex US was […]

Khaleej Times – With Islamic equity investments growing at an unprecedented level, the days of Islamic hedge funds may not be far off, industry experts say. Despite the fact that attempts to put together a Shariah-compliant hedge fund have so […]

Reuters – Hedge funds, which tend to trade stocks more actively than institutional investors, have become the most important clients for many major brokerage firms, a new survey found, confirming awidely held view on Wall Street. The survey, conducted by […]

Scotsman – BRITAIN’S financial regulator yesterday said hedge funds could be suitable vehicles for private investors, but that the risks could be lessened by not putting all their eggs in one basket. John Tiner, chief executive of the Financial Services […]

Forbes – Hedge funds are fueling a new frenzy of investment in the property catastrophe reinsurance industry as the Atlantic hurricane season heads into its busiest months. One of the biggest brokers, Marsh & McLennan‘s (nyse: MMC – news – […]

Globe and Mail – Uranium is a hot metal. It is so hot that hedge funds have become active players in the market, according to Ux Consulting Co. LLC, a Georgia-based uranium industry trade publication. The spot price has more […]

Reuters.uk – Big fund management companies are looking at ways to move into distressed debt trading, an area dominated by hedge funds, as a new alternative asset class option for institutionalinvestors, industry figures said. These big fund management firms were […]

Reuters – The number of new European hedge funds launched jumped nearly 15 percent in the first half of this year and hit record levels, information provider HedgeFund Intelligence said on Wednesday. Between January and June new launches rose to […]

New Statesman – If hedge funds were a country, it would be the eighth-biggest on the planet. They can sink whole economies, and have the potential to crash the entire global financial system. Yet they are beyond regulation. We should […]