'Chatter' holding back BHP

BHP Billiton cannot wait for next week's anniversary of its failed scrip bid for Rio Tinto to pass. Not because it wants to bid again, but because it believes that hedge fund chatter that it will return with a bid is holding back its share price.

Market volatility puts shorts back in fashion

With a resurgence in short selling, regulators must make sure the financial system is as transparent as possible.

Shine a light on it: short-sellers are back and greater transparency is needed

Last week a billionaire hedge fund investor, the famous Enron short-seller Jim Chanos, emerged from the hedge fund abyss with news that he was shorting the entire Chinese economy.

Whoever wins, there'll be five left at the table

C raig Dunn is scheduled to give a lunchtime speech in Melbourne today, a date that apparently was set quite some time ago.

Packer polishes up GEMS fund

A year after sounding the retreat from the funds management business with the delisting and downsizing of the Ellerston GEMS fund, James Packer's Ellerston Capital is expanding the business and has plans to reopen the flagship fund to new investors and raise money for a range of new investment vehicles.