(HedgeWeek) Experienced hedge fund managers looking to set up on their own should take note – running a book and launching a fund are two very different things. So says Peter Greene (pictured), a partner at law firm Lowenstein Sandler […]

(Opalesque) Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) set to take effect on 1 January 2020.This marks an important milestone in the evolution of the GIPS standards to ensure their relevance for all asset classes and asset managers. The updated GIPS standards […]

(Bloomberg) Brevan Howard Asset Management’s flagship hedge fund returned 3.9% in June, capping off its best first half since 2009. The Master Fund is up 9.3% in the first six months, building on a 12.4% gain in 2018, according to […]

(Bloomberg) The hedge fund firm founded by billionaire Daniel Och has finally put one of the industry’s biggest scandals behind it — quietly. Seizing on a business-friendly shift at the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Trump administration, Och-Ziff Capital […]

(Bloomberg) A lawsuit Monday seeking to have $14.3 billion of Illinois bonds thrown out by a court lit up the phone lines of Wall Street trading desks, where analysts fielded calls from investors worried about the odds their investment in […]

(Hedgeweek) Experienced hedge fund managers looking to set up on their own should take note – running a book and launching a fund are two very different things. So says Peter Greene (pictured), a partner at law firm Lowenstein Sandler […]

(Hedgeweek) Interest in alternative investment opportunities appears to be on the rise in continental Europe, according to the new eVestment Advantage Viewership Report covering activity on eVestment in June. To read this article:

(Reuters) – Hedge fund Tangency Capital has raised a further $165 million to invest in the property reinsurance market, bringing its size to $265 million as the hurricane season gets under way, one of its co-founders told Reuters on Wednesday. […]

(Reuters) – U.S. consumption of diesel and other middle distillate fuels is decelerating in line with the wider slowdown in manufacturing and construction activity. Consumption of distillate fuel oil was up by 3% in the three months from February to […]

(Reuters) – French aeronautics company Latecoere (LAEP.PA) said it would examine a 365 million euros ($414 million) takeover offer from investment firm Searchlight Capital. Searchlight, which already owns 26% of Latecoere’s share capital, made an offer of 3.85 euros per […]

(Bloomberg) Prime Factor Capital Ltd., a London-based hedge fund manager set up by former employees of BlackRock Inc. and RWE AG, became the first investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies to win the stamp of approval from U.K. regulators. The company […]

(Bloomberg) JPMorgan Chase & Co. is pushing its use of artificial intelligence beyond investment banking and into hedge funds. The bank’s asset management arm is planning a strategy to invest in emerging and established machine-learning statistical-arbitrage hedge funds, according to […]