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Barrons  - Be bullish. That’s the overarching message from the options market as it fills with talk of two major developments that suggest the stock market will keep rallying to new record highs. Major hedge funds are reportedly buying, or have [...]

Forbes – The 50 largest hedge funds in the world decided to sell Apple in the first quarter, replacing it with Boeing and, interestingly, Norwegian Cruise Holdings which went public in January, according to a report by FactSet. The group [...]

TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s CEO Kazuo Hirai says the company’s board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 percent of its movie, TV and music division. Hirai was asked about [...]

A commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday said she supports allowing hedge funds to publicly advertise, but she also raised concerns about how a proposal under consideration by the agency doesn’t seem to consider a number of [...]

The Independent – Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei [...]

By: Carolyn Bentzien, Valuation Research Corporation – The Spring of 2012 heralded a new and exciting time for investment funds considering blossoming into Business Development Companies (“BDC”). In April 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act was enacted into [...]

It has been recently covered in the media that Mary Jo White, who became SEC chairman on April 10, is pushing to adopt the JOBS ACT without major changes and potentially adding additional investor protections at a later date.  While [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a new report showing that participants receiving capital through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) boosted lending for the seventh straight quarter. In total, SBLF participants have increased small business lending by [...]

The results of the fifth annual survey will be launched today at Dow Jones’ Global Compliance Symposium being held in Washington DC. This year’s survey interviewed compliance professionals from more than 350 companies worldwide. Of the companies represented, 71% stopped [...]

The 2012 annual surveys of the hedge fund industry are out, and all of them point to an increasingly competitive business environment for running an alternative investment fund. Management costs continued to rise as investor and regulatory demands on the [...]