Hedge Fund

28 Jan 2013

Hedge fund managers often regard themselves as the masters of the fund management universe.

2012: How Wall Street got it wrong

5 Jan 2013

From hedge fund manager John Paulson's call for a collapse in Europe to Morgan Stanley's warning that US stocks would decline, Wall Street got little right in its prognosis for the year just ended...

Bill Hwang guilty of illegal trading at Tiger Asia Management

14 Dec 2012

Tiger Asia Management, the New York-based hedge fund run by Bill Hwang, admitted illegally using inside information to trade Chinese bank stocks and agreed to criminal and civil settlements of...

Hedge-fund managers may emerge as real winners of Japan's poll

12 Dec 2012

This may be the election that Japan bears such as Kyle Bass have been waiting for.

Chinese funds head to Ireland to crack Europe

26 Nov 2012

China's top fund managers are showing a strong appetite for opening back offices or having funds registered in Dublin, to pave the way to issuing fund products across Europe and even globally.

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

There is little comfort from the line-up of main investors

The initial public offering of the mainland's largest general insurer, People's Insurance Company (Group) of China (PICC), raises lots of doubts.

The firm is trying to answer them with a US...

Where now for the Hong Kong dollar?

Hong Kong's determination to maintain its exchange-rate peg to the US dollar has the confidence of currency-forward traders even as it fails to sway hedge-fund investor William Ackman.

Pandit quits as Citigroup's chief

Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit resigned abruptly yesterday, effective immediately, a shock change at the top of the No 3 US bank the day after a surprisingly strong quarterly earnings...

LAI SEE

1823 Call Centre is no ringing endorsement

We may have been overly exuberant as to the merits of the government's 1823 Call Centre.

Private deals cornering theIPO market

In bearish markets, more often than not, the trick to getting a big or small company listed on the stock market is quietly finding a group of investors with a healthy appetite - before the shares...

Quick fixes for ailing IPO market

Closing IPOs is challenging in these tricky markets. Hong Kong has had its fair share of new listings pulled, delayed or indefinitely postponed over the last year. The Securities and Futures...