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Bloomberg – MST Capital Pty, a hedge fund run by former UBS AG trader Gerard Satur, is betting the U.S. dollar will strengthen against the currencies of Australian and New Zealand as China?’s economy slows. The macro fund, which is […]

CNBC – In the 13 years he ran a $3.5 billion long/short fund, KCM Consulting founder Michael Karsch beat the S&P 500 by 100 percent. Throughout his career, Karsch also worked with the likes of hedge-fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller of […]

P&I – The board of the San Francisco City & County Employees’ Retirement System is expected to reject Chief Investment Officer William Coaker’s plan for a 15% allocation to hedge funds at a meeting in the next several weeks and […]

Guardian – An unprecedented international investigation into tax deals struck with Luxembourg has uncovered the multi-billion dollar tax secrets of some of the world’s largest multinational corporations. A cache of almost 28,000 pages of leaked tax agreements, returns and other […]

Guardian – Britain’s major banks are to be subjected to an 18-month investigation into how they treat their small business and personal customers in a move welcomed by consumer bodies and the new entrants trying to break the stranglehold of […]

Bloomberg – Billionaire hedge fund managerPaul Singer’s NML Capital Ltd. asked for an emergency court order to keep Argentine lawyer Cesar Guido Forcieri in the U.S. to answer questions about assets that might be tapped to pay off $1.7 billion […]

Economic Times – India-focused hedge funds could be poised for their best performance in five years, data from industry tracker Eurekahedge showed. The Singapore-based research house has said assets under management (AUM) of India-focussed hedge funds have risen to $2.8 […]

Forbes – In concept, liquid alternative are alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity funds that are available to any investor. Whereas traditional alternative investments can only be purchased by accredited investors (i.e., people with a net worth […]

Bloomberg – Prime Capital Management Co. is scaling back its wager on 500.com Ltd. (WBAI), underlining concern about the online bookmaker’s viability. The hedge fund, overseen by Liu Yijun, cut its stake in the Shenzhen, China-based company to $27 million […]