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London hedge funds Odey Asset Management and Egerton Capital are among those upping their bets against Monte dei Paschi di Siena in recent days, after revelations the troubled Italian bank faces heavy losses.
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NEW YORK, Jan 4- U.S. financial regulators are pushing to turn hedge funds into informers on the white collar crime beat.
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For Einhorn, who has moved stock prices by simply opening his mouth, 2012 ended with lackluster returns when his Greenlight Capital lost 2.8 percent in December, a person familiar with the fund's performance said.
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Thursday won the dismissal of a New York lawsuit by 26 hedge funds that accused the German automaker of causing more than $1 billion of losses by cornering the market in Volkswagen AG shares.
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NEW YORK, Dec 27- Porsche Automobil Holding SE on Thursday won the dismissal of a New York lawsuit by 26 hedge funds that accused the German automaker of causing more than $1 billion of losses by cornering the market in Volkswagen AG shares.
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LONDON, Dec 21- The slowdown in emerging markets is hitting hedge fund Sloane Robinson hard, highlighting how, even as the industry attracts investors, managers can quickly fall from grace if they fail to perform.
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Long-time China watchers probably felt a sense of deja vu when HSBC's chief China economist, Qu Hongbin, predicted last month that the yuan would be convertible within five years.
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LONDON, Dec 19- Hedge funds owned by commodity giants including Cargill and Louis Dreyfus have outwitted their standalone rivals in a year of market volatility that has disrupted traditional models for oil and metals trading.
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A federal jury in Manhattan found Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital Management, and Anthony Chiasson, co-founder of Level Global Investors, guilty of securities fraud.
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KKR has finished raising its second pan- Asia fund, reaching $6 billion, according to sources, the largest private equity pool ever raised for the region.
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Dec 14- David Coolidge may still be the king of U.S. natural gas hedge fund managers but his $2 billion Velite Capital has made less than half of last year's money while one of his biggest rivals is headed for a loss in an unusually tricky year for traders.
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LONDON, Dec 13- Some hedge funds are calling it quits on one of their biggest trades of the year- shorting French government bonds.
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Argentina's president, Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner, was re-elected with a huge margin last year, leaving her political opponents fractured and demoralized, yet battles with a New York hedge fund manager for political dominance.
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U.S. authorities are investigating Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers hedge fund for alleged insider trading in the shares of the popular diet company Weight Watchers International, according to people familiar with the matter.
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*Assets dwindled to $1.45 bln from $5 bln two years ago. BOSTON, Dec 6- Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, one of a handful of firms embroiled in a government insider trading investigation, told investors it would close down after nervous clients demanded the return of more than a quarter of its assets.
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BOSTON, Dec 6- Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, one of a handful of firms embroiled in the government's insider trading probe, told investors that it will close down after nervous clients pulled out more than half a billion dollars in assets.
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BOSTON, Dec 6- Hedge fund Diamondback Capital, which became embroiled in the U.S. government's insider trading case, has told its clients that it plans to shut down after clients asked to pull out yet more money.
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These include Winton Capital, one of the world's largest with $29 billion of assets, and Cantab Capital with $4.5 billion. Cambridge- based quantitative fund Cantab Capital said it spent in September more than $1 million on three seats at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest futures market, where it puts through at least half of its trades.
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British retail billionaire Philip Green on Thursday sold a 25 percent stake in Topshop and Topman to U.S. private equity firm Leonard Green and Partners in a deal that values the popular high street chain at 2 billion pounds.
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Dec 3- Hedge funds beat the broader stock market by a whisker in November, according to data published Monday. Hedge funds rose 0.13 percent for the month through November 28, according to data compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.