Globe and Mail - This is how bad things are for hedge funds right now. On the CanadianHedgeWatch.com website, a hub for the hedge business, the lead article one recent day was headlined "The hedge fund collapse."

The article, which originally appeared on the Portfolio.com website, tells us that as many as half the 10,000 hedge […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - In a recent real estate seminar, sponsored by World Class Group in Dubai, the keynote speaker said that the future of the real estate market will be based on Darwin’s law of natural selection.
Michael J. Tolan, CEO of World Class Group was addressing representatives from over 30 real estate related […]

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 global financial crisis.
But they advocated only the lightest supervision of their industry, and said they would be willing to disclose their […]

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. should impose stricter regulations.
"This is not a case where management takes huge bonuses or stock options while the company is failing,” said Falcone, one of five billionaire investors […]

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, John Paulson, James Simons and Ken Griffin all took turns defending hedge funds at the House hearing yesterday, though they clearly weren’t on the same page […]

International Herald Tribune - Hedge fund managers usually shun the spotlight. But five of them, billionaires all, are about to come under the glare on Capitol Hill.
The money managers — Philip Falcone, Kenneth Griffin, John Paulson, James Simons and George Soros — have been called by a House panel to discuss some of their trade secrets […]

Reuters - Hedge fund managers could play a key role in jump starting the ailing U.S. economy if Washington offers them appropriate tax breaks, a prominent hedge fund industry lawyer said on Tuesday.
Sitting on billions of dollars in cash, dozens of hedge funds are looking for investments at the same time cash- strapped small and […]

Seeking Alpha - I’m lucky to count among my friends Charlie Michaels, owner of hedge fund company Sierra Global and portfolio manager of the Sierra Europe Fund. Charlie is among the few hedge fund managers sitting on a gain so far this year.
According to the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index managed by Hedge Fund […]

BloggingStocks - Congress will bring in a bunch of big hedge fund managers like George Soros and ask them why they make so much money. It will also try to figure out if they control too much of the trading on Wall Street and borrow too much money from banks putting them at risk if […]

New York Times Blogs - After pouring money into Barack Obama’s campaign, what can hedge funds and their executives expect from the new president?
If history is any exmaple, says FINAlternatives, they shouldn’t expect a cuddly relationship.
Mr. Obama didn’t appear sympathetic to the industry on the campaign trail, the publication noted, calling John McCain the […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - A pioneering collaboration that brings together the best of the academic and finance worlds has been such a success that the venture has outgrown its premises, just a year after its establishment.
Man Group plc, one of the world’s largest alternative investment companies, founded the Man Research Laboratory ("MRL"), in Oxford […]

Seeking Alpha - This morning I pulled out a third quarter report for a hedge fund of funds and read it. It had some numbers in it that weren’t particularly good, but were way better than I thought they’d be.
But I really wasn’t focused on the numbers this morning. I wanted to understand what had […]