The Reading Room

Cautious investors may tame hedge funds, at a cost

Conservative investors break with tradition and pile into hedge funds

Some smaller hedge funds outshine their bigger rivals

Industry spin-outs are showing up their bigger and better-known brethren

JSE launches high-speed trading platform

System allows traders to execute transactions 400 times faster

Hedge funds get exotic in hunt for profits

Hedge fund investors see poor returns from usual strategies

Hedge fund exit requests lower than year ago

Requests lower than in June of previous four years

Investors cast doubt on “end of world” hedge strategies

Voice concerns about complex funds designed to protect against major market meltdowns

Big investors eye loading up on hedge funds

Pension funds, endowments and charities may soon heap more hedge funds into their portfolios

Funds of hedge funds fight to stay relevant

Investors gaining confidence to pick single hedge fund managers themselves

Private equity in SA tops R115bn

Private equity sector in SA "ticking along" despite economic uncertainty

Man and FRM: A good merger forged by necessity

Boldest deal seen in the hedge fund industry to date