hedge funds

A Congressional committee scrutinized risks in the hedge fund industry on Thursday to determine whether further regulation is needed.

Hedge funds have lost £13bn on Volkswagen in two days having bet on shares in the carmaker falling.

Oil magnate T. Boone Pickens is taking a beating financially. The slump in the price of oil has cost his hedge funds around $1 billion this year.

This isn't the kind of result you'd expect from a guy who's written a book called The First Billion is the Hardest.

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Hedge funds delivered their worst performance on record during the first half of 2008, revealing that the industry has not been immune to the broader market turmoil.

Close loopholes on foreign oil trading. Limit hedge funds from pouring money into the market. End oil speculation altogether.

Will a collection of hedge funds, carefully selected by experts, return more to investors over the next 10 years than the S&P 500?

Marketcetera just announced a $4 million series A round of venture funding with Shasta Ventures and Jack Selby, managing director and co-founder of Clarium Capital.

There's something highly appropriate in a hedge fund investing in a software company set up to help hedge funds (and others).

After months of poor performance, AQR Capital Management plans to close at least one of its hedge funds at the end of this month.

Iceland considers intervening in financial markets to fight hedge funds it says are attacking its economy.