Profile/Regulation

Positive engagement

Phillip Goldstein makes a habit, and a living, out of taking on corporate managers through his activist hedge funds at Bulldog Investors in the US. But has this activist bitten off more than he can chew by taking the Securities and Exchange Commission to…

Regulating Germany

Matthias Kurth was appointed Germany's first energy regulator in June of this year. The decisions he makes as the new Federal Network Agency president will be felt throughout European energy markets. He speaks to Oliver Holtaway

On the right track

When Robert Fleming started financing railroad construction in the US at the end of the nineteenth century, he may not have realised his legacy would set a series of single-strategy hedge funds running, in London, more than 100 years later.

The manager's advocate

Morgan Creek Capital Management's Mark Yusko spoke strongly in favour of hedge funds at Hedge Funds Review's recent Bermuda conference. At Morgan Creek, his views are not unusual

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