Daily Telegraph - Highbridge Capital Management, which is majority owned by JP Morgan Chase and has $25bn under management, is axing 10 per cent of its New York-based staff and plans cuts in Europe and Asia.
The volatility in global stock markets has savaged the performance of some of the world’s best-known hedge funds, raising […]

Telegraph.com.UK - Sources close to Mrs Lagarde said that she had called the US Treasury Secretary - a close personal friend - well before the ailing bank’s collapse imploring him to act, but he chose not to.
Lehman Brothers’ demise sparked the biggest shake-up on Wall Street in decades and sent shock waves around the world […]

Daily Telegraph - Lawyers are being galvanised on behalf of a raft of hedge funds which claim the financial watchdog has illegitimately extended its powers and caused "wide-spread capital destruction."
One said: "The FSA’s remit is to maintain orderly markets - the markets were […]

Daily Telegraph - As short-selling is banned to protect Britain’s banks, Gordon Rayner names the men who have made millions from the financial crisis
As 70,000 employees of HBOS wonder which of them will still have jobs this time next month, they will no doubt be looking for someone to blame for the extinction of […]

Daily Telegraph - Stanley Fink, the former boss of Man Group, who became one of the City’s best-known financiers, is teaming up with Lord "Cashpoint" Levy to make a spectacular comeback to the hedge fund industry he quit last year.
Known as the "Godfather" of British hedge funds, Fink is to become chief executive of International […]

Daily Telegraph - Cerberus, the American hedge fund, has sold its stake in Merchant Equity Partners, the owner of the MFI furniture chain, to Hilco and Goldman Sachs.
The secretive investment firm was one of the original backers of MEP but is understood to have sold its stake in the furniture chain’s owner several months ago. […]

Daily Telegraph- The chief executive of the sugar refining group Tate & Lyle has hit out at hedge funds and other commodity speculators, calling for them to face greater regulation in a bid to hold back soaring food prices.
Hedge funds have been blamed for contributing to the rocketing price of commodities including oil, wheat and […]

Daily Telegraph- The High Court has rejected an audacious last-gasp bid by hedge funds to block Candover’s £1.8bn bid for oil services group Expro.
Hedge funds holding around 25pc of Expro - led by Mason Capital and Sandell Asset Management - asked the court on Monday to block the deal and force Expro’s board to […]

Daily Telegraph- German leaders are to propose a worldwide ban on oil trading by speculators, blaming the latest spike in crude prices on manipulation by hedge funds.
It is the most drastic proposal to date amid escalating calls from Europe, the US and Asia for controls on market forces, underscoring the profound shift in the political […]