Hedge Funds and CTAs

Jonathan Sorrell, the head of a Goldman Sachs private equity fund that invests in hedge fund managers, will leave the bank to join the Man Group.

The slimmed-down FrontPoint Partners is getting even svelter.

Sutesh Sharma, who leads Citigroup's principal strategies unit, and Toby Lingard last month registered their Portman Square Capital with U.K. regulators. The new firm will launch its maiden fund next year and could feature other members of Sharma's group, which manages some $2 billion of Citi's money.

Retired hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has still got it, even if he's only managing money for himself these days.

One of Europe's biggest hedge funds has apparently become too big for just one administrator.

Deutsche Bank’s former quantitative trading team is raising an inflation hedge fund with hopes of garnering $1 billion.

QS Investors, which spun off from Deutsche Bank last year, said the new fund would serve as an inflation hedge by investing in global bond and currency forwards.

Hedge funds' August woes—like August's stock market and other economic woes—are a transatlantic problem.

Hedge funds will need a rally to avoid another down month this summer, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Perella Weinberg Partners has launched a UCITS III-compliant version of the healthcare hedge fund it acquired last year.

African funds of hedge funds offer steady, superior and uncorrelated returns, according to a new study by PerTrac and HedgeNews Africa.