On May 19, New Hampshire-based PAX World announced the launch of ESG Shares, the first group of ETFs focused solely on sustainable investing. The fund...
The chance to turn your virtual cash into the real thing on the Hollywood Stock Exchange is set to begin at the end of June. The futures market regulator,...
Hedge funds have been circling for new carrion to devour in the next economic slowdown and have found a big fat target in the for-profit educational sector....
Richard S. Rofe, the managing director of Arcadia Capital Advisors, spoke out against the proposed stock-for-stock merger transaction between Symyx Technologies...
This week, the United States’ second-largest pension fund will vote on whether to invest in commodities to hedge against inflation, which is a source...
The founder of hedge fund manager Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn, said earlier this week at the annual Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference that...
With a large number of college annual giving campaigns concluding at the end of June, it is very likely that the recent precipitous drop in the Dow Jones...
In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we look at recent additions made by a wide array of large hedge fund managers from multi-strategy and global...
Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) has received $25 million, representing a private purchase of 11.1 million shares of common stock at a price of $2.25 per share....
British asset manager Matrix Group has announced the launch of its first UCITS III Fund. Managed by Rupert Foster, the Matrix Asia UCITS Fund will invest...
With energy, Senate Democrats find themselves between a rock and two hard places. Nonetheless, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.,...
Alfredo Mattera and Ian Burgess, both former heads of credit operations at Polygon Investment Partners, are preparing a European distressed and special...
Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP has begun raising assets from outside investors for its new Brevan Howard Commodities Strategies Master Fund Ltd. ...
In this hedge fund spotlight report, we are showcasing three top hedge fund managers that were recently moved from HedgeTracker’s premium hedge fund...
Banking industry lobbyists were popping the champagne bottles in Washington yesterday, as a greatly weakened and enfeebled financial reform bill stumbled...
This week, Man Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire hedge fund group GLG Partners. Britain-based Man Group will buy GLG for approximately...
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital is the latest blue-chip hedge fund manager to raise assets for gold focused hedge funds. At the start of 2010, John...
In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we look at recent additions made by Tiger Global Management, the Matrix Group, Level Global Investors and Farallon...
In a speech earlier this week at a CFA Institute conference, AQR Capital’s Clifford Asness criticized hedge fund fees saying that the standard 2 and...
Raising money for hedge funds has never been tougher and it seems like it will remain tough for quite some time, maybe forever. It is what most hedge...
On May 14, the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. and CRD Analytics announced the results of the semi-annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability...
Stephen Whittaker and Phil Roantree, formerly of New Star Asset Management, have struck out to establish their own investment management firm called Querns...
