As hedge fund titans face an intense grilling by congressional committees and thousands of hedge funds around the world close their doors, perhaps it is time to consider a new approach.
A hedge fund structure offers investors many advantages such as maximum flexibility, but the model is sure to change under all the heightened scrutiny.
After […]

Sydney Morning Herald - The hedge fund industry says it supports federal government plans to ban naked short selling and impose a disclosure regime for covered short selling.
The Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) said the group had been in talks with regulators and the federal government about legislation to go to […]

Newark Star-Ledger - Prompted by criticism from a prominent state lawmaker, the head of the state’s Division of Investment yesterday defended his decision to invest $144 million in pension funds in a BlackRock Inc.-managed hedge fund in the past two weeks, saying the state needed to act quickly to protect its stake and possibly reap […]

Tehran Times - "We do have to have much more government oversight and involvement than we’ve seen in the last decade or so,” said Waxman, a California Democrat.
“A lot of people didn’t either know what they were getting into or much care because they weren’t going to be the ones holding the bag,” Waxman […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - According to a recent survey conducted by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), a poll of 1,300 sophisticated private investors showed that 15% believed that hedge funds offer the potential for strong returns in the current environment. However they are also concerned about their perceived lack of transparency (17%) and […]

Times Online - The European Parliament will support calls tomorrow for Europe-wide legislation aimed at making the inner workings of hedge funds and private equity more transparent.
The proposals - championed by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the Socialist MEP and a former Danish Prime Minister - call for clear rules for these financial players, […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - FINCAD is hosting a webinar specifically targeted towards hedge funds titled, ‘Hedge Funds: Scenario and Risk Analysis for your OTC Derivatives Portfolio’ and will feature analysts from FINCADs professional services team.
"This is a rapidly growing and important customer sector for FINCAD, in the last year alone we have sold […]

HedgeFund.Net - According to Joseph Biden, the hedge fund industry and private equity deserve the blame for the global credit crisis.
The Delaware senator and running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama made that assertion in a primary debate last year when he was himself running for president. Obama, a senator from Illinois, […]

The Australian- The SEC’s decision to take a hard line on the illegal practice of naked short-selling is a band-aid attempt to fix a problem that is plaguing most stock markets in various guises, but at least it is having a go.
The order lasts 30 days and covers 19 stocks, including the Wall Street jockeys […]

MSN MoneyCentral- A British hedge fund said Monday it will accept the Japanese government’s rejection of its proposal to raise its stake in a major utility — although it added that it still doesn’t agree with the reasoning behind the order.
The Children’s Investment Master Fund had proposed raising its stake in J-Power — Japan’s largest […]

Times Online- Proper consultation is the rock upon which good regulation is founded. And for the Financial Services Authority, consultation is in its DNA. So when it does the unthinkable and drops a bombshell without warning or discussion — as last week with the announcement of the Short Selling Instrument — people are bound to […]

Scotsman- Mysterious global hedge funds which hope to profit from betting that the price of HBOS shares will continue to plummet emerged from the shadows yesterday.

On the first day of new rules to bring greater transparency to "short selling", three previously secretive funds were forced to declare their stake in the Edinburgh-based bank.

Under the new […]