New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Hedge Fund firm Tudor Investment Corp. has suspended investor redemptions from its $10 billion BVI Global unit until March 31st, giving the company time to split the fund into two. 
BVI Global was hit by a wave of client redemption requests after investors moved to withdraw 14 percent of their capital, […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - One of the world’s largest hedge funds has temporarily halted redemptions according to reports. Tudor Investment Corp’s flagship portfolio, has been reported to have halted redemptions so they can segregate difficult-to-sell assets in the fund from those they can offload more easily.
Bloomberg reports that the move was made by […]

Bloomberg - Tudor Investment Corp., the firm run by Paul Tudor Jones, temporarily suspended redemptions from the $10 billion BVI Global Fund Ltd. as it splits the hedge fund into two, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Tudor is planning to put hard-to-sell investments, mostly corporate bonds and loans from emerging markets, into a […]

Seeking Alpha - A report making the rounds today detailed managers’ Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or most likely, both.
Atticus Capital reduced […]

Wall Street Journal - Some high-profile Bain Capital credit-investment funds are choking on losses of as much as 50%, said people familiar with the matter, the latest revelation in a day of shake-ups across the hedge-fund business.
The private-equity firm’s credit affiliate, Sankaty Advisors LLC, has lost between 40% and 50% across two funds that bought […]

MarketWatch - James Pallotta, vice chairman and managing director of U.S. public equities at Tudor Investment Corp., is leaving the giant hedge fund firm and plans to launch the Raptor Global Funds unit he runs as a separate business, according to a letter Tudor sent to investors this week.
Pallotta will spin off Raptor […]

Reuters - Hedge-fund pioneer Paul Tudor Jones and veteran stock picker James Pallotta are mulling changes to their 15-year partnership, including a possible parting of ways that could affect their $18 billion fund empire, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
A split between Pallotta and Jones, the veteran trader who started Tudor Investment Corp, would […]

Times Online- They may be partly responsible for the mess the banks are in but bankers are not sticking around for the clean-up. Many top bankers have lost confidence in their institutions and are quietly heading for the exit. The smart ones, it seems, are going to hedge funds.
GLG, Europe’s largest hedge […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- The Managed Funds Association MFA and CME Group (CME), a Strategic Partner member, recently arrived back from a jointly arranged trip to meet with Chinese government officials, policy makers and financial services representatives.
The MFA and CME co-sponsored a conference, "Global Markets and the Role of Alternative Investments" was held in June […]