Mutual Funds

(In paragraph 3, corrects the number of shares sold by Tiger Global) May 15 (Reuters) - One-time hedge fund darling Apple Inc was dropped by more famous hedge fund managers in the first quarter, including John Griffin and Chase Coleman. Shares of...

By Mike Dolan LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Debt may be everywhere but there's a scarcity of bonds. With governments awash with debt and furiously selling new securities to fund bloated budget deficits, the idea of a bond shortage on the marketplace may...

* Sony option and share volume far above normal on Monday * Trades include June $19 call buy and June $16, $17 put sales By Doris Frankel May 14 (Reuters) - A surge in option market bets on Sony Corp just before a large hedge fund investor announced...

BOSTON (Reuters) - JANA Partners, a leading activist hedge fund firm run by Barry Rosenstein, has taken a liking to two of the most beaten-up technology stocks. JANA, which oversees more than $4 billion in U.S. stock holdings, disclosed stakes of 24.6...

JANA Partners, an activist hedge fund run by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, has revealed a stake in Groupon and Zynga, two of the most battered technology stocks. Shares of both companies jumped on the news. JANA, which oversees more than $4 billion in...

By Linda Stern WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - It isn't like Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues have it in for old people - I'm sure they are all very respectful of their elders. (The policy-setting reserve bank presidents...

BOSTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Hedge fund Highfields Capital bought 23 million shares of PC maker Inc in the first quarter, according to a securities filing by the fund on Wednesday. Dell is embroiled in a leveraged buyout deal led by founder Michael Dell to...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barry Rosenstein's JANA Partners liked grocery chain Supervalu Inc in a big way in the first quarter, while Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management lost its stomach for the company's shares. Regulatory filings revealed that JANA, a...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Several top stock-picking hedge funds bought about 30 million shares of PC maker Dell Inc in the first quarter, possibly increasing pressure on company founder Michael Dell to improve his bid to take the company private. Dell is...

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor John Paulson bet more heavily on mortgage insurers during the first quarter, which suggests that his hedge fund expects the housing recovery to grow stronger in the months ahead....

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University paid its top six in-house money managers $29.5 million in 2011, a 45 percent hike from the previous year that it said was due to the "exceptionally strong" returns on the school's endowment during that period....

LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity funds have struggled to offload investments made before the financial crisis and are taking longer to pay out to investors, research showed on Wednesday. Data from research firm Prequin showed that companies sold by...