Bill Browder, veteran hedge fund manager and founder of Hermitage Capital, has predicted a crisis that could affect the world’s major currencies and...
Last week, activist investor JANA Partners sent a letter to Charles River Laboratories International (NYSE: CRL) highlighting the 35% of shareholders...
The BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has rightfully been analysed (mostly) from the ecological perspective. People’s lives and livelihoods are in grave...
Yesterday, Schroders PLC (LSE: SDR) announced its acquisition of a 49% stake in RWC Partners Ltd., the London-based asset management firm and hedge fund...
Andrew Hall, the former Citigroup trader infamous for the $100 million bonus he received last year, has raised $1.08 billion for his new hedge fund, the...
In the past two years, as most hedge fund managers were engaged in damage control and trying to avoid liquidating funds, Seth Klarman managed to rise...
Ralph Whitworth’s activist focused Relational Investors LLC will join Ares Management LLC in reducing management fees to the California Public Employees...
In a year that has already seen 254 hedge fund launches, hedge fund management firm Burren Capital has reportedly become the largest hedge fund launch...
River Twice Capital Advisors LLC launched its flagship hedge fund, the River Twice Fund, this month with $8.4 million in assets under management. The...
In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we review recent additions made by a number of top hedge fund managers, including Moore Capital Management,...
Following Man Group Plc's (LSE: EMG) $1.6 billion purchase of GLG Partners (NYSE: GLG) in May, Man Group's chief executive Peter Clarke stated that the...
EFX Prime Services announced today that it had hired industry veterans Jonathan Shapiro and Gary Mednick. The two new hires will help lead the firm’s...
SAC Capital Advisors has decided to launch another trading unit, Parameter Capital Management. According to Bloomberg, Anil Stevens and Glenn Shapiro...
Brian Cohn, the former president of SAC Capital Partners, is in the process of forming a new hedge fund firm. According to Bloomberg, Mr. Cohn’s firm...
The North African country of Libya is supplying hundreds of millions of dollar to fund a new hedge fund that will be run by Frederic Marino, formerly...
The Wall Street Journal has put together the best history of hedge funds I have found so far. They start with the legendary Fortune Magazine editor,...
Multi-strategy asset manager Matrix Group has launched the Matrix Lazard Opportunities Fund, its second UCITS III fund. According to Matrix, the new UCITS...
Steven A. Cohen has altered the management structure of SAC Capital Advisors, which manages more than $12 billion in assets, by promoting four current...
Global investment manager Martin Currie Investment Management recently announced its acquisition of Sofaer Capital European long/short equity business,...
The SEC has charged Milowe Allen Brost, Gary Allen Sorenson and four other men with designing and perpetrating an international Ponzi scheme that misled...
Matthew Andresen, Jason Lehman and Neil Fitzpatrick, three former traders at Chicago hedge fund Citadel Investment Group, have joined forces once more...
