West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Pharos Financial Advisors Limited, a specialist emerging markets fund manager, announced that it has been granted a license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority...
Reuters UK - Robust returns for a group of powerful hedge funds that thrived for years using sophisticated trading programs may be a thing of the past after a "Black Swan" event hit globa...
New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Five billionaire hedge fund managers stood up before Congress yesterday and shared their differing views on the hedge fund industry.
George Soros, Philip Falcone, Joh...
New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Clients of Fortress Investment Group LLC have requested to withdraw more than $4.5 billion of their assets over the next few months, according a statement released by the h...
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - The leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies will hold an historic meeting Saturday in a bid to head off the threat of a protracted global recession and for...
Reuters - Quadrangle Equity Investors, a hedge fund that concentrates on media and communications stocks, will wind down its business after losses and investor redemptions, according to people fami...
Bloomberg - Hedge-fund managers including George Soros and Philip Falcone, in an unprecedented appearance before Congress, defended their practices and profits while splitting over whether the U.S....
New York Times - Several leading hedge fund managers told Congress on Thursday they support some new regulation of hedge funds and the complex derivative securities that are partly blamed for the ...
The Money Times - A U.S. House committee Thursday reviewed hedge funds, which the panel’s chair called "virtually unregulated."
Because they aren’t required to report on...
Reuters HK - David Bonderman, one of the the most influential figures in the U.S. private equity industry, said on Thursday his firm, buyout giant TPG Capital TPG.UL, wanted to buy debt assets offl...
Reuters - Malaysia is working on a plan to allow the creation of Islamic hedge funds.
"It is now in the developmental stage,” Goh Ching Yin, an executive director at the Securities...
Financial-Planning.com - The fate of many a hedge fund relies on what investors decide to do with their money on Nov. 15, when it is possible an overwhelming majority could ask for their money back...

