A legal clash between hedge funds and private equity firms and the SEC is looming large over the regulator’s proposed plan to tighten rules on the disclosure of fees and dealing with investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Several hedge funds including Basswood Capital, Adage Capital Partners and Tudor Investment Corp placed bets on real estate investment trusts that specialise in New York City office space in Q2, despite continued uncertainty over the impact work-from-home policies on the
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Crypto asset trading platform Bittrex, and its co-founder and former CEO, William Shihara, have agreed to pay $24m to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they operated an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency.Â
Concerns over a slowing Chinese economy dragged the Aussie dollar to a nine-month low, just as hedge funds were turning the most bullish they have been on the currency so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global equities have finally attracted the attention of trend-following hedge funds on the back of falling volatility as hopes rise that interest rate rises are coming to an end, according to a report by The Financial Times.
Offshore China hedge funds that target investments in the world’s second-largest economy, are feeling the pinch as foreign investors lose interest in investing in the country’s faltering economy, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Landseer Asset Management UK is in talks with Odey Asset Management over the transfer of portfolio manager Freddie Neave, who runs its flagship hedge fund, as the firm continues to deal with the fallout from multiple sexual assault allegations made
Freddie Neave, who took over the management of Odey Asset Management’s European Inc fund following the departure of  the firm’s founder Crispin Odey, has dropped the fund’s short positions against UK government bonds, according to a report by Reuters.
CJ Lanktree, who ran distressed debt trading for Deutsche Bank between 2003 and 2012, is back in a similar role at the bank, running its US distressed business, after parting company with hedge fund Solus Alternative Asset Management, according to
