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Bloomberg – Aviva Plc (AV/), Britain’s second-biggest insurer, said its investment arm plans to exit hedge-fund businesses as it scales back in the U.S. “We are working with our affiliates and the underlying hedge-fund managers on an orderly transition plan,” […]

ValueWalk – The Alaska Retirement Management Board is weighing in on Calipers decision to exit hedge funds, saying CalPERS is close to being a “perfect contrary indicator.” When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) loudly exited their hedge fund […]

WSJ – British insurer Aviva PLC will shutter a U.S.-based hedge-fund arm by the end of the year after a major client asked for its money back, according to people familiar with the matter. The Aviva unit, a so-called fund […]

Forbes – A Dallas hedge fund manager has sued the Securities & Exchange Commission in an attempt to get one-and-a-half boxes of files that securities regulators collected while investigating him and his hedge fund firm. Harlow Capital Management, a hedge […]

Bloomberg – The FBI files spell it out: An analyst at Citadel LLC, the hedge fund with $23 billion in capital invested globally, told agents he made millions of dollars trading on information from a company insider. It was December […]

NYT – The stock market has been rising for years, hitting new highs almost every week. So how is it that one of Wall Street’s most bearish investors can claim to have profited strongly over this period? Universa Investments, a […]

Valuewalk – As Apple is at the list of Goldman Sachs’ Very Important Positions list, it also tops the list of what the firm’s analysts say is the 50 stocks that “matter most” to hedge funds. In their latest report, […]

Huff Post – Long before the 2008 financial collapse, the American economic landscape had shifted, plunging the country into something of an identity crisis. Manufacturing was down, far less tangible industries were up. Income inequality and nostalgia for a time […]

Providence Journal – For reasons that remain unexplained, the state Investment Commission, headed by Governor-elect Gina Raimondo, went behind closed doors last Wednesday to “review” a hedge fund in which it has $61.7 million of the state’s pension dollars invested: […]