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The 100 Top-Performing Large Hedge Funds By Bloomberg Markets & Bloomberg Rankings - Jan 4, 2013 Bloomberg Markets Magazine The February 2013 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine contains our annual rankings of the world's richest hedge funds. The following 100 comprise our list of best-performing hedge funds managing $1 billion or more. Our rankings are based on data compiled by Bloomberg specialist Anibal Arrascue and information supplied by hedge-fund research firms, hedge funds and investors. Assets and returns are for the 10 months ended on Oct. 31, 2012. Click here for a PDF and here for the accompanying story. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/the-100-top-performing-large-hedge-funds.html

Hedge funds suffer worst quarter since 2008 By Hibah Yousuf October 19, 2011: 2:12 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Feeling blue about the hit your portfolio took last quarter? You're not alone. Hedge funds also had a lousy third quarter, delivering one of the worst performances on record.

Hedge Funds Add to Raw-Material Bets in Biggest Rally of 2011: Commodities By Whitney McFerron - 2011.10.16 06:19 PM Speculators boosted their wagers on higher commodity prices for the first time in five weeks as increasing confidence that the global economy will avoid another recession spurred the biggest rally of the year.

Related News: Hedge Fund Summit, Europe , Japan Bloomberg : European Banks May Need to Raise More Capital By Elisa Martinuzzi and Liam Vaughan - Jun 27, 2011 7:01 AM GMT+0900 Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Germany’s biggest lender, and UniCredit SpA (UCG) are among European banks that may have to raise additional capital after regulators dismissed lenders’ threats that stiffer rules may stunt economic growth.

Reuters : Hedge fund bosses cautious ahead of Monaco summit By Laurence Fletcher MONACO | Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:11pm EDT ( Reuters ) - European hedge funds' top executives will be in cautious mood this week as they gather in Monaco for their annual summit, after big losses in May took some of the shine off a year of inflows and strong returns.

Related News: Germany · Bonds · Currencies · Economy · Eastern Europe · Europe · France · U.K. & Ireland · Italy · Hedge Fund Summit Greek Default Would Not Destabilize the Euro, Bundesbank’s Weidmann Says By Richard Weiss - Jun 12, 2011 9:46 PM GMT+0900 Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann raised the pressure on governments to agree to a Greek bailout without the European Central Bank taking part in easing the country’s debt burden, saying the euro can withstand a default.

Related News: Funds Hedge Funds Rose 1.4% in April to Highest in Almost Three Years By Kelly Bit - May 6, 2011 2:05 AM GMT+0900 Hedge funds climbed 1.4 percent in April to the highest level in almost three years as stock markets rallied amid rising earnings and the Federal Reserve renewed its pledge to stimulate growth with low interest rates.

The Warren Buffett-hedge fund bet tightens April 26, 2011 5:00 am Berkshire Hathaway's chairman won the 2010 race for investment returns, but Protégé Partners retains the long-term lead. By Carol Loomis, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE -- We're three years into Warren Buffett's 10-year bet with the hedge fund community, and the race has narrowed. For the second year in a row, Buffett's horse in the contest -- an S&P 500 index fund -- did better than the average return booked by five funds of hedge funds picked by Protégé Partners LLC, a New York money-management firm.

GlobeOp To Unveil Hedge Fund Indices 04-06-2011 | Source: emii.com GlobeOp Financial Services is seeking to roll out two new indexes tracking capital flows hedge funds. The two indices will offer monthly reports based on actual and anticipated capital movement data independently collected from all hedge fund clients for whom GlobeOp provides administration services.

Absolute FoHF To Seed EM Portfolios 03-23-2011 | Source: emii.com

Paulson Losing Money Through Mid-March 03-18-2011 | Source: Institutional Investor Magazine John Paulson continues to struggle this year. The gold bug’s Paulson Advantage Plus fund lost 4.42 percent in the first two weeks of March alone, through last Friday. As a result, the Event Driven hedge fund was down 1.76 percent for the year through March 11, according to an investor.

MARKETS |MARCH 15, 2011 Hedge Funds Had Bets Against Japan Even Before the Disaster, Big Investors Were Wagering on Economic Problems By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN And TOM LAURICELLA The catastrophe in Japan has placed renewed focus on the country's already fragile economy—and brought unexpected profits to investors who have long bet that the nation eventually will be dragged down by its debt problems.

Fortress Unveils Asia Macro HF 03-10-2011 | Source: emii.com People & Companies in the News Fortress Investment Group Daniel Mudd Fortress Investment Group has started an Asia-focused macro hedge fund that aims to grow to $500 million, Bloomberg reports. The Fortress Asia Macro Fund has begun trading with the firm’s own money and that of a few clients.

THE VIEW FROM HONG KONG |MARCH 7, 2011 Asia Wealth Leads to Hedge Fund Shuffle By ALISON TUDOR HONG KONG—Asia's growing wealth is causing a major personnel shuffle in the hedge-fund world, as global funds look to establishing footholds while star managers strike out on their own.

HONG KONG NEWS|MARCH 3, 2011, 3:40 P.M. ET Hedge-Fund Maven Paulson Gets Hong Kong License By NISHA GOPALAN HONG KONG—Hedge-fund manager John Paulson, who made his name betting against subprime mortgages in 2007, is the latest high-profile investor to expand into Asia.

FEBRUARY 11, 2011, 12:38 P.M. ET Hedge fund Level Global to liquidate funds Associated Press NEW YORK — One of several hedge funds that is under scrutiny in an insider trading probe is liquidating its funds and returning cash to investors. Level Global Investors LP expects to fully liquidate by the end of March, according to a letter to investors obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.

PGGM Launches HF Platform 10-28-2010 | Source: emii.com PGGM is looking to invest directly in selected hedge funds to raise transparency and reduce costs, IPE reports. The €100 billion asset manager will invest through segregated managed accounts rather than pooled funds.

Hedge Funds Updated: Sept. 17, 2010 Hedge funds have become a force in the financial markets, controlling trillions of dollars of assets. Even the largest of hedge funds are little known by the public, but what happens at hedge funds matters to just about every American.