A double blow for the principals of the GLG hedge fund that was bought by rival Man Group last year for £1.1 billion, in what Man boss Peter Clarke described at the time as a "transformational" deal... more
It's not been the best week to chat to fund managers. Share prices have been shooting up and down faster than a vicar's nightshirt. Yet there remains something reassuring about talking to people who look after billions of pounds of your and my money when all about are panicking... more
Shares in the world's largest listed hedge fund manager, Man Group, falls by more than 20%, as it reveals just how much damage has been wreaked on it by the wild gyrations of the world's financial markets during the last three months... more
Pressure mounts on Rupert Murdoch as David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal... more
The senior police officer accused of being 'more like Clouseau than Columbo' over the phone hacking scandal has accused MPs of acting like a 'lynch mob' - and said he was discriminated against because of his accent... more
Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner John Yates said: 'My conscience is clear,' as he denies lying to Parliament about the failed investigation into phone hacking... more
Just 173 phone hacking victims out of a possible 4,000 have been contacted so far by Scotland Yard, the officer in charge of the investigation admitted this afternoon... more
Man Group, the world's largest hedge-fund manager, saw the best net inflow of funds for three years in the latest quarter on the back of two very successful launches of new funds in Japan... more
Hedge fund giant Man Group beats its own profit forecasts and saysthat new fund launches since the year end have attracted more money than expected... more
Man Group dazzled when its new Japan fund raised a better-than-expected $1.5 billion as investors reckon the March earthquake should not derail growth... more
Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund manager, is still seeing investors withdraw more money than they are investing, but believes it can halt that by launching new funds... more
A rapid recovery in hedge fund performances in the past few months has seen a sharp fall in institutional investors withdrawing their money from Man Group ... more
Peter Clarke, chief executive of the UK’s largest hedge fund manager, Man Group, had his pay chopped by 52% last year after MG’s profits tumbled by 40%... more
This year could see the bounceback of the hedge fund industry after a pretty disastrous 2008, Peter Clarke, chief executive of the world's largest publicly quoted hedge fund manager Man Group, said today ... more
Secretive, arrogant, reckless. These are some of the nicer things they say about the hedge fund industry. Responsible for bringing the financial system to its knees? You could easily argue that.... more
Finance: Britain's biggest hedge fund is to sue anyone involved in fleecing it for $360 million in the $50 billion Bernard Madoff alleged Ponzi scandal... more
The post of Metropolitan Police Commissioner is to be formally advertised tomorrow with the Home Secretary demanding a British citizen with an "outstanding record"... more
Finance: Man Group sought to shake off fears of a tsunami of redemptions in the hedge-fund industry, saying its more conservative rich private investors are keeping the faith... more
When a London jury last week refused to convict anyone of plotting to destroy aircraft, they called down a rain of official fury on their heads... more
Peter Clarke, the former head of the Counter Terrorism Command who led the liquid bomb plot inquiry, described how British police were forced to act to smash the bomb plot after the arrest of a man in Pakistan... more
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