(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund launches exceeded liquidations in Q1 2018 for the third consecutive quarter, as both launches and liquidations fell through early 2018, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR. An estimated 158 funds launched […]

(HITC)Reuters reports that in an unprecedented move, Australian authorities earlier this month charged Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and several executives with criminal cartel offences over the $2.3 billion capital raising in 2015. And Bloomberg News […]

(Opalesque) Numbers from the Eurekahedge hedge fund database show the following key highlights for May 2018:Hedge funds posted their second consecutive month of gains, up 0.33% in May and 0.48% year-to-date. Performance has varied sharply with small to medium sized […]

(Opalesque) Northern Trust announced today it has partnered with Lumint Corporation, an innovative provider of currency management services, to enhance its suite of foreign exchange (FX) solutions for asset managers and asset owners globally.The partnership with Lumint strengthens Northern Trust’s […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds posted their second consecutive month of gains, up 0.33 per cent in May and 0.48 per cent year-to-date To read this article:

(Reuters) Investors continued to reduce their overall bullish position in petroleum, but profit-taking concentrated on fuels while signs of stabilization emerged in crude. Hedge funds and other money managers cut their combined net long position in the six most important […]

(Bloomberg) Pelorus Jack Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund started by an alum of John Burbank’s Passport Capital, is shutting after about a year of trading, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The firm raised almost $250 million […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund investors turned cautious in April 2018, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, even as the equities markets rebounded and volatility began to calm down. Industry assets levelled off at an all-time high of USD3.0 trillion. Data […]

(Reuters) The euro is weakening, the U.S. yield curve is flattening, volatility is falling and last week, hedge funds were on the right side of all three moves. The euro had its biggest fall in two years last Thursday, the […]

(CNBC) A growing number of US hedge funds specializing in distressed debt are raising money in anticipation that the next economic downturn will punish companies that have borrowed record amounts since the financial crisis…. To read this article:

(New York Times) Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, may be the leader of the world’s most valuable public company,…Last month he visited the Oval Office to warn President Trump that tough talk on China could threaten Apple’s position in […]

(Seeking Alpha) Many of those high fees that hedge fund investors are paying are no longer deductible for the taxable investor in the United States. Since many of the fees are not deductible for tax purposes, almost the entire gross […]