Andrew Dalton, who founded and was managing partner and chief investment officer of Dalton Strategic Partnership, has died after suffering a heart attack.

Once upon a time, pensions were the ultimate investor for a hedge fund manager. Retail investors could wait while the red carpet was rolled out for bigger hitters.

RAB Capital has been emblematic of the many trials of hedge funds during the financial crisis.

I am not sure what I expected the hedge fund investor would say to my question: "What is the most unusual thing in your industry?"

‘Idiotic' and ‘gratifying', are not adjectives commonly applied to financial markets, but they have been used recently to describe the state of FX rates.

Matrix Group's managing director Bridget Guerin has stepped down after 12 years with the firm.

If you ask investors for their least favourite abbreviations from the crunch, CDO, CLO, RMBS and CMBS may spring up.

If you have already invested for clients in an emerging markets fund, but now think a few bob in a US equities portfolio will do better this year, then stop.

When detectives single out your industry as needing anonymous phone lines to uncover insider traders, you know its reputation has room for improvement.

The European Commission may be about to kill two very big birds with one stone. The ‘stone' it is casting from Brussels is the snappily named Regulation on Short Selling and Certain Aspects of Credit Default Swaps.