Having been pilloried by the regulators before the credit crunch for earning too much money and being ’secretive’ ,to being blamed for their ’slap dash’ approach to leverage, it is all the more amusing that they should be portrayed as the potential heroes of the moment.....

Just like a gambler playing Roulette, it appears that investors are writing off the bad bet on black and now betting on red. This is meant in no way as a slur on the funds or the investors, it is just an indication of the fact that investors have had a taste of the good life with huge returns, on some funds, and now everyone is chasing those winnings again

Al Gore also has managed to make a lot of money since his 2000 loss. Over $100 million, to be specific. Bloomberg News reports that Gore invested $35 million with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb.

Forbes rankings are still topped by Business leaders even when hedge fund managers are earning mind boggling amounts of money. This article examines why that may be the case with help from an analysis done at Financial Times

article about the transactions of Lone Pine Capital, a $9 billion hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. Stephen Mandel, the fund's founder is on Forbes list of 1125 billionaires, so it is worth looking at what moves he made.

David Enrich, Wall Street Journal, reports that Citigroup Inc. has barred investors in one of its hedge funds from withdrawing their money. Citigroup suspended redemptions in CSO Partners after investors tried to yank more than 30% of the fund's roughly $500 million in assets.

A RAFT of European hedge funds have been forced to introduce emergency measures to protect their businesses from collapsing in the wake of the turmoil in financial markets.

Suddenly, farming is sexy - for investors, anyway. Pergam Finance, a Paris-based hedge fund with $1 billion (£511 million) in assets, is about to double the size of Campos Orientales, a fund that buys farms in Argentina and Uruguay, with a $60 million to $80 million fundraising.

Yes, it’s time for our list of predictions for 2008.