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FORTUNE — Hedge funds soon will be allowed to advertise their wares to potential clients, thanks to a provision in last year’s JOBS Act (which had no direct relation to actual jobs). As will private equity funds, venture capital funds [...]

Wall St. Cheat Sheet – Is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) the must-have stock for hedge funds in 2013? Just like most people think of an apple when asked to think of a fruit, it turns out that most hedge fund managers think [...]

MetroPCS Communications Inc (NYSE:PCS) investors should be aware of a decrease in hedge fund interest in recent months. In today’s marketplace, there are plenty of gauges market participants can use to track the equity markets. A duo of the best [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek – For those who take delight in the so-called “smart money” underperforming the “dumb money,” here are some enjoyable new data points that show hedge funds continue to be an overpriced, middling asset class. Goldman Sachs’s (GS) quarterly [...]

Opalesque – North Street Group, a capital markets and investment banking firm, today announced the acquisition of Hedge Fund Solutions, LLC, a New York based Alternative Asset Service Provider. Additionally, North Street Group announced the name change and rebranding of [...]

Glen Dailey, Managing Director and Head of Prime Brokerage of Jefferies LLC and a hedge fund industry pioneer, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Sustainability Achievement Award by Solar One, the leading think tank for environmental education [...]

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 [...]