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Hedge funds eye further profits from JPMorgan losses
LONDON - Hedge funds are positioned to squeeze more profits from JPMorgan & Co's losing position in U.S. credit derivatives, after racking up tidy gains from a lucrative trade that could end up costing the bank more than $3 billion.
Hedge fund calls for Chesapeake Energy CEO exit
NEW YORK/LONDON - Pressure on Chesapeake Energy's embattled chief executive increased on Monday as a small London hedge fund urged the company's board to terminate Aubrey McClendon, while a well-known activist investor was reported to be building a position in the company.
Hedge funds gain 0.5 percent in April as stocks fall
LONDON - Hedge funds made small profits in April, according to a new performance index, even as global shares sank amidst the market fears over Spain's deepening debt crisis and signs that the U.S. economy was slowing.
Investors inject more cash into hedge funds
LONDON - Investors grappling with volatile financial markets upped their bets on hedge funds over the past month, data from hedge fund administrator GlobeOp shows, indicating renewed confidence in their abilities to cash in on turbulent asset pricing.
Investors losing faith in commodity hedge funds
LONDON - Investors in some of the best-known commodity hedge funds are getting increasingly frustrated by their performance, with some heading for the exit as managers rack up a second year of losses.
Man Group hires new risk head for troubled fund
LONDON - Man Group has replaced the head of risk at its embattled flagship AHL fund as pressure mounts on chief executive Peter Clarke to stop the rot in the British company's shares, now trading at the lowest level in more than a decade.
Hugh Hendry predicts crisis will spread to Asia
LONDON - Hugh Hendry, one of the hedge fund industry's most outspoken managers, has warned that the economic crisis is headed for Asia, with the region's largest economy, China, struggling under a bursting property bubble and tumbling demand for its exports.
Third of Man Group investors fail to back Carnwath
LONDON - Almost one-third of Man Group shareholders failed to back the re-election of City veteran Alison Carnwath as a director on Tuesday, just days after Barclays investors criticised her role in approving a pay plan for the bank's CEO.
Hedge fund charges skewed against investors - report
LONDON - An investor advisory group on Tuesday levelled fresh criticism at the high fees imposed by hedge funds and urged them to cut their take of gains on the assets they manage.
Man Group CEO hits back at critics
LONDON - The chief executive of beleaguered hedge fund manager Man Group sought to defend his position, saying shareholders supported him despite further withdrawals of clients' money and poor returns from its flagship fund.
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Ed Moisson, Lipper's Head of UK and Cross-Border Research, looks back over a tumultuous decade.
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