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Barclays and BlackRock: Passive-Aggressive

Barrons – A big question surrounding BlackRock’s $13.5 billion purchase of Barclays Global Investors, including its iShares exchange-traded-funds business, is how effectively a passive management group can work with an active one. The combined firm will have more than 9,000 […]

May Was Good to Hedge Funds – But How’s The Future

CNBC – Hedge funds posted their best monthly performance in a decade in May, taking advantage of rallying stock markets and distressed opportunities across the board, according to the latest numbers from the Absolute Return Composite of hedge fund indices.The […]

Pallotta to shut down Raptor fund, reopen it later

Reuters – Hedge fund manager James Pallotta, who long delivered some of the industry’s best returns, told clients on Tuesday that he will shut down his $800 million Raptor Global fund in July. Pallotta, 51, told investors that he had […]

Bank ‘oligopoly’ slows CDS clearing-BlueMountain

Reuters – Large dealers in the $26 trillion credit default swap market are blocking CME Group’s CME.N efforts to clear trades, in a bid to retain their "oligopoly" over the market, hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management said on Monday. Central […]

In Advising US, BlackRock Thrives in Uncertain Times

The Ledger – The financial crisis has ravaged many a Wall Street giant, but it has also produced a handful of winners. BlackRock, a money manager that is much admired but little known outside financial circles, is fast emerging as […]

Barron’s Top 100 Ranking Hedge Funds for 2009

Barron’s is out with its annual hedge fund 100 list and we wanted to post up all the media relating to it. Barron’s mentions that hedge fund assets plummeted from $1.9 trillion to $1.4 trillion throughout the course of 2008. […]

Hedge fund AUM below $1 trillion: New Finance Capital

Reuters – Hedge fund assets under management around the world have probably fallen below $1 trillion, a top executive at hedge fund New Finance Capital LLP (NFC) said on Thursday. "There has been an enormous contraction in this industry. The […]

SEC needs hedge fund authority-Schapiro

Guardian Unlimited – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission needs authority to require hedge fund advisers to register with the agency plus the power to examine funds’ books, the agency’s chairman said on Tuesday. U.S. lawmakers are working to give […]

Hedge fund bill to give SEC registration authority

Guardian Unlimited – A U.S. Senate bill to make the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry more transparent would give federal regulators the authority to require fund managers to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the bill’s authors […]

JGB futures fall towards 6-mth low on supply worries

Guardian Unlimited – Japanese government bond futures fell on Monday, edging back towards six-month lows hit earlier this month, with traders citing selling by hedge funds on the back of concerns about rising debt issuance. The Ministry of Finance said […]

Alpha Magazine Announces 2009 Hedge Fund 100

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – "Alpha" released the results of the 2009 Hedge Fund 100, the magazine’s eighth annual ranking of the world’s biggest single-manager hedge fund firms. Although most hedge fund managers in 2008 couldn’t escape the carnage from […]

SEC Charges Hennessee On Bayou Hedge Fund Miss

Post Chronicle – U.S. securities regulators charged a prominent hedge fund industry executive on Wednesday with failing to properly review collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group before recommending that their clients invest. Hennessee Group and its principal Charles Gradante, who runs […]