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Financial Times has reported that retail investors in UK are likely to get access to participate in hedge funds very soon. Here’s their report.
“Private investors are finally to be allowed access to hedge funds through UK retail products, under changes to the regulatory regime proposed by the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority. In a [...]

As if Hedge funds don’t have enough of their plate already, they are now being adversely commented up on by US presidential hopefuls — more for media mileage than for any meaningful discussion!
There an interesting article here:
Hillary ClintonTakes Aim at Hedge Funds and Mergers & Acquisitions
According to the Political Radar blog, Hillary Clinton commented on [...]

Since last year, there have been number of reports in the press on how the hedge fund industry has attracted a lot of attention from regulators. Hedge fund operators are learning that with greater exposure in press, there will come greater scrutiny from regulators. So it is no surprise that the industry decided to take [...]

Hedge fund industry, irrespective of the ups and downs it has suffered recently, accounts for more than $ 2 trillion and consists of thousands of individual funds. And most of these funds are located in exotic locations that allow the fund managers to maximize the gains. To achieve this, usual base [...]

In our previous posts, we covered how hedge funds have had it tough over last few months. As the year draw to close, it is useful to take a look back. 2007 was a mixed bag for the hedge funds.

On one hand, hedge funds are getting more investments with the larger funds being especially favoured [...]

Recently the latest F1 sensation from Britain, Lewis Hamilton, decided to move his base from the UK to Switzerland for tax purposes. It has been estimated that Hamilton will be able to save tens of millions that would have otherwise gone to the UK government. Now he will be able to race [...]

This is a common question on some of the investment forums, and this post aims to clarify that. For those of you in the hedge fund industry this is obvious stuff so please just let me know if I missed something glaring.
Mutual Funds

Their performance is marked against a relevant benchmark which they try to beat [...]

Michael Gray of Neal, Gerber, and Eisenberg talks about possible changes that will affect investor participation in hedge funds — following some high profile hedge-fund melt-downs.

With 2-3 trillion dollars invested, the Hedge Funds industry is already about 20% of the mutual fund industry- and its still considered ‘largely unregulated’. And so, SEC is thinking of new rules that may make it more difficult to be a hedge fund investor. Michael Gray of Neal, Gerber, and Eisenberg talks about possible changes [...]