Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

International Herald Tribune – Lawrence Summers has a radical idea.   The way I interpret it, the former U.S. Treasury secretary and outgoing president of Harvard University is suggesting that the International Monetary Fund should stop being just a lender […]

Reuters – Hedge funds are cooking up new strategies in the loans, oil derivatives and agricultural futures markets to satisfy investor appetite for higher returns, PSolve Alternative Investments toldReuters. An excessive number of players in traditional markets such as stocks […]

Boston Globe – Money, money everywhere. Boston’s private equity firms are in the midst of unprecedented fund-raising that will fuel even greater levels of investing over the next several years. Endowments, pension funds, and other institutional investors are throwing as […]

Bloomberg – A rally in Japanese stocks that faltered last month is set to resume amid signs of growth in the world’s second-largest economy and as the central bank prepares to raise interest rates from near zero, hedge fund managers […]

Business Times – Hedge funds that buy and short-sell stocks are over-represented in Asia and new players that can offer more sophisticated strategies will find the best opportunities, industryexperts said yesterday. Potential growth areas include merger arbitrage funds, with the […]

Cayman Net News – Risk is an ever- present component of any investment strategy and is certainly present within the hedge fund industry. Traditionally focused more on controlling investment-related risks, the hedge fund industry if compared to say the mutual […]

FinanceAsia – Ashutosh Sinha teams up with his younger brother to launch an Asia long/short hedge fund. Ashutosh Sinha has left Morgan Stanley investment Management in Singapore to launch his own fund business. He is partnering with his younger brother, […]

The Post.ie – The glitzy but complex world of hedge funds found itself at the receiving end of unwelcome attention from financial regulators in Ireland and Britain last week. The Irish Financial Regulator showed its teeth to the industry with […]

Big money is working its way into small places. Deep-pocketed pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors are pouring money into a place they’ve avoided for years: emerging-market hedge funds. In December, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers, […]

Reuters.uk – The Financial Services Authority said it was considering letting retail investors have access to hedge fund investments and would consult next year on how to help consumers understandthe risks. Allowed investments will probably include funds of hedge funds […]