(Hedgeweek) Alternative investment firm Värde Partners has held the final close of the Värde Asia Credit Fund with approximately USD400 million of committed capital. The fund, which exceeded its USD250 million target and closed after six months, is the firm’s […]

(Bloomberg) Investors played it safe on U.S. crude ahead of a make-or-break week for oil markets. Money managers cut total positions on West Texas Intermediate crude to the lowest level in five years, according to U.S. data released Friday. They […]

(Reuters) Billionaire investor David Einhorn told investors on Friday that losses at his hedge fund Greenlight Capital grew this month, leaving the fund down nearly 28 percent for the year. The firm sent an investor update after the close of […]

(Reuters) U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) rejected a suggestion by the White House that its collapsed $44 billion acquisition of Dutch peer NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) could be revived, saying the deal had been terminated as the deadline had expired. To […]

(New York Post) Arconic, working with Elliott Management, is in talks to buy the unit of the company that has the liabilities associated with the London Grenfell Tower disaster in order to sell the rest of the business… To read […]

(Financial Times) Buoyed by growing interest from institutional investors, 2018 was supposed to be the comeback year for hedge funds. To read this article:

(Stamford Advocate) The organizers of the inaugural Greenwich Economic Forum investment conference wanted to create an event that would rival Davos, Switzerland’s World Economic Forum. They have already made major progress toward that goal… To read this article:

(Opalesque) Crypto prices have cratered over the past month but one emerging manager is still finding arbitrage opportunities. Mitchell Dong, Founder of Pythagoras Investment Management tells Opalesque New Managers that even though there have been severe fluctuations in cryptocurrencies over […]

(Opalesque) At a time when many investors are thinking about how to reposition their portfolios away from long-only strategies and into more defensive options, a new fund is coming to market with what it considers to be a unique twist […]

(Financial Times) Emerging market hedge funds are on track for their worst annual performance since 2011 according to Hedge Fund Research, which tracks activity in the sector. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Short sellers were thin on the ground at a gathering of hedge-fund managers in London on Thursday. Nine out of the 10 stock recommendations at the Sohn conference were bullish bets on share prices — even after an October […]

(Reuters) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the time period for participants in retirement plans to sue under the federal law governing employee benefits does not begin to run until they have “actual knowledge” of a […]