NEW YORK, Jan 4- U.S. financial regulators are pushing to turn hedge funds into informers on the white collar crime beat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LONDON, Dec 13- Some hedge funds are calling it quits on one of their biggest trades of the year- shorting French government bonds.
*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.
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.
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.
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.
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.