At the end of April, online broker E*Trade Financial Corp sold 172 million shares of its common stock (ETFC.O) in the secondary market at the request...
Pardus Capital Management has recently announced that the firm has recruited Dr. Lutz Stoeber to be senior analyst. Dr. Stoeber will focus on distressed...
The SEC has filed charges against Gryphon Holdings, Inc., its owner Kenneth E. Marsh and four associates with the operation of an Internet-based scam...
The promise of green energy has intrigued the Middle East, where concern about future reserves runs deep, but Saudi Arabia's recent plan for a multibillion-dollar...
Columbia Pacific Advisors changed the filing status of its Columbia Pacific Opportunity Fund’s position in Bitstream Inc (NASDAQ: BITS) from “passive”...
In just over a year, the Dow has recovered to 11,204, from 6,547. The biggest rally of our lifetimes has lifted markets over 70%. Paradoxically, now's...
The HFS UCITS Index continued its positive trend last week gaining 0.13%, this matches its performance from the second week of April. Overall for April,...
A few months ago I was a guest on the hedge fund radio show "The Naked Short Club" on Resonance FM. A question for the panel was "which hedge fund strategies...
New York-based Lone Peak Partners Management LP’s flagship hedge fund has raised $69.38 million. Lone Peak Partners, a manager of funds of hedge funds,...
Since announcing his new global macro hedge fund venture in January of this year, Millennium Partners veteran Albert Ee has changed the new firm’s name,...
Bull and Bear Capital LLC, a leading marketing and asset raising innovator announced that widely-recognized industry professional Nancy L. Kazdan of Market...
SkyBridge Capital announced this week that it was opening a office in Zurich. The fund of hedge funds manager will base its will base its European operations...
OM Investment Management announced the launch of OM Global Investment Fund, a long/short hedge fund that uses a combination of bottom-up and technical...
Hedge Connection Inc. and PrecisionIR Group today announced the launch of the inaugural Global Hedge Fund Forum, a live, online event that will take place...
The SEC charged Nevin K. Shapiro, the president and founder of Capitol Investments USA, Inc. and a prominent businessman in Miami Beach, this week with...
Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) completed its acquisition of fixed income asset manager Logan Circle Partners this week. The addition of Logan Circle...
In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we look at recent additions made by hedge fund industry heavy weights JANA Partners LLC, SAC Capital Management,...
GLG Partners has made a number of significant additions to its investment team this week. The global hedge fund manager announced yesterday that it had...
Canadian alternative investment firm Salida Capital has recently announced the planned launch of its first private equity fund. The new fund will focus...
An alternative investment survey of 600 institutional investors that was conducted by Deutsche Bank reported that the number of institutions that provide...
On April 15th, Peter Cohen’s Ramius Capital Group revealed that it had purchased 400,000 more shares of software and hardware company SeaChange International...
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) announced last week that Citi Alternative Investments’ hedge fund, hedge fund seeding, and hedge fund advisory businesses would...
In the second quarter, the former Asian head of the proprietary trading desk at Deutsche Bank AG’S Saba intends to launch Nine Masts Capital, a Hong...
