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Flaws in hedge fund rules detailed

Proposed pan-European regulation of hedge funds and private equity is being introduced on the back of a ‘vague, sweeping and inadequate’ analysis of the problem, according to a report prepared for European lawmakers

Flurry of hedge fund start-ups buoys industry

Launches growing in size and number

Tyrus fund raises more than $800m

Sign of a resurgence of confidence in the sector

K1 fund’s probe centres on fraud allegations

Founder allegedly used circular investments

K1 founder arrested as inquiry expands to US

German national and Nebraska adviser arrested

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Hedge-trimming

Investors do not lack for suspicions that some funds’ handsome profits were due to more than skill. But that does not indict hedge funds in general: it is a useful and legitimate industry

Government’s response like that of a rowdy drinker in a bar brawl

Hedge funds should be supervised and regulated, as they already are in much of Europe. But it is unfair of the French and German governments to penalise these foreign ‘locusts’ for domestic failures

Insight: Hedge funds face mountain

Somewhere along the way, hedge funds lost sight of their original purpose, writes David Smith, investment director at GAM’s fund of funds

Level the global playing field for the horrid hedgies

Lombard

The original spirit behind the European Union’s directive on alternative investment fund managers suggests Sebastian Faulks’ latest novel will sell a bundle in French and German translation

Hedge funds to quit UK

Lex

Some big managers are talking about forgoing European money entirely rather than play along with a draft Brussels directive

Leverage creeps back on to the radar

There are signs that the carnage in the credit world is beginning to produce benefits for nimble survivors such as CQS, writes Gillian Tett

ECB warns Brussels on hedge fund rules

Meriwether setting up new hedge fund

Spotlight on rules for trading by executives

Due diligence made investors wary of Galleon

Observers see wider hedge funds crackdown

Hedge funds suffer from image problem

Hedge fund managers step up internal regulation

FSA warns on cost of new EU hedge fund rules

Hedge funds misrepresent facts, says research

Tough EU timetable for fund regulation