Bloomberg - Hedge-fund assets may fall to about $1 trillion by the middle of next year, a decline of almost 50 percent from their peak in June, because of market losses and client withdrawals, Citigroup Inc. said in a report.
Managers are likely to see investors, led by funds of funds, pull 20 percent of their […]

Straits Times - Hedge fund assets fell by US$100 billion (S$151 billion) in October as investors withdrew their money and funds were forced to sell stock, exacerbating the severe volatility that pounded global markets during the month.
About US$60 billion of the US$100 billion in asset losses during the month came from investor redemptions, according […]

Reuters - The Hedge Fund Standards Board, the body set up to develop voluntary standards in the industry, said on Wednesday it now represents about half of hedge fund assets in Europe.
The announcement comes as hedge funds attempt to head off tougher regulation in the wake of turmoil in the global financial system.
The industry has […]

International Herald Tribune - As world markets shudder, the hedge funds based in London, once the toast of the city’s flashy financial elite and magnets for cosmopolitan capital, have stumbled badly.
The increasingly global sweep of the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers have punished all manner of hedge funds - secretive investment pools that […]

Wall Street Journal - In another sign of the changing power dynamics between hedge funds and their investors, funds are offering to cut fees if investors agree to stay put.
Camulos Capital LP in a letter last week asked its investors to promise to keep nearly $2 billion in place with the firm for another year […]

A new report released Monday by HedgeFund.net estimates the assets under management by hedge funds have reached nearly $3 trillion.
According to the report, hedge fund assets increased 4.41 percent last quarter, in spite of rough equity markets, to reach $2.973 trillion. The report combined data from a bi-annual survey of hedge fund administrators and information […]

Wealth Bulletin- US hedge funds keen to support their European client bases are looking at expansion into London. Institutional Credit Partners Capital and Silver Creek have made the move.
Despite predictions that the UK’s non-domiciled tax regime would lead to hedge funds migrating to other European destinations, London remains the hedge fund centre of Europe, […]

FINalternatives- Global hedge fund assets under management increased 30% in 2007 to a record $2.25 trillion, according to a new International Financial Services report.
Most of this growth was in the first three quarters, as market turbulence in the latter part of the year resulted in a slowdown in inflow of new funds and a decline […]

Reuters- Beleaguered Swiss bank UBS is considering the sale of Paine Webber, the heart of its U.S. wealth management business, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
UBS is under pressure from the Swiss financial watchdog and from one of its top shareholders, Olivant, to overhaul its business after more than $37 billion (18 […]

Guardian.co.uk- Foreign sovereign wealth investors are targeting London’s hedge fund industry as they seek to boost returns on their vast savings, much of it generated from trade with the west in oil and other commodities.
The hedge funds have seen billions of pounds pour into their investment plans at a time when the industry desperately needs […]

Hedge Funds Review Magazine- In early 2007 HNWIs bet heavily on riskier asset classes. However further into the year, financial market turmoil and economic uncertainty intensified and HNWIs began to shift their investments to safer, less volatile asset classes.
Exposure to property and hedge funds was reduced in favour of safer investments, according to the “World […]

Hartford Courant- An investor has sued a Greenwich hedge fund management firm, accusing its operators of siphoning off money and enriching themselves at the expense of investors.
Westerly Capital sued Windmill Management LLC, manager of SageCrest hedge fund, and operators Alan and Philip Milton and Richard Weyand in Stamford Superior Court earlier this month.
It is demanding […]