Here we take a look at December 2012 absolute performance for the top 5 event-driven funds in two categories - all funds and U.S.-only funds - as tracked by Lipper’s hedge fund database. To see more analysis, including assets under management and domicile information for the top 10 funds in each category, click here for all funds and here for U.S.-only funds. To be truly connected to all the Lipper analytics available on HedgeWorld, become a HedgeWorld Premium Plus member. To find out more about how to do that, visit hedgeworld.com/membership/.

Speaking a the 2013 GAIM Hedge Fund Conference, Grandmaster Capital’s Patrick Wolff says interest rates can rise a couple hundred basis points, but stocks are still the more attractive option.

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Here we take a look at December 2012 absolute performance for the top 5 equity market neutral funds in two categories - all funds and U.S.-only funds - as tracked by Lipper’s hedge fund database. To see more analysis, including assets under management and domicile information for the top 10 funds in each category, click here for all funds and here for U.S.-only funds. To be truly connected to all the Lipper analytics available on HedgeWorld, become a HedgeWorld Premium Plus member. To find out more about how to do that, visit hedgeworld.com/membership/.

Here we take a look at December 2012 absolute performance for the top 5 pure emerging markets funds in two categories - all funds and U.S.-only funds - as tracked by Lipper’s hedge fund database. To see more analysis, including assets under management and domicile information for the top 10 funds in each category, click here for all funds and here for U.S.-only funds. To be truly connected to all the Lipper analytics available on HedgeWorld, become a HedgeWorld Premium Plus member. To find out more about how to do that, visit hedgeworld.com/membership/.

Hayman Capital Management’s Kyle Bass says he expects the Japanese yen to crater against the dollar and that this is the riskiest time for an investor to be complacent about the markets.

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Speaking at the 2013 GAIM Hedge Fund Conference, Ginny Parker, CIO of Parker Global Strategies, said the effects of the bond bubble could last decades and that she feels perceived market risk is unusually low.

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Under the Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allows companies to offer securities for sale without having to register those securities or file periodic reports, provided the companies meet exemptions laid out in Regulation D. For hedge funds’ purposes, those securities are limited partnerships. When a hedge fund firm sells its first securities, it is required by Reg D to file a Form D, which includes names and addresses of the company’s executive officers and stock promoters and the date of the first sale in the offering. As such, Form D filings can be a useful tool to find new hedge fund launches.

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—Compiled by Angela Sormani

What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013:

Around the web

Financial crisis suit suggests bad behavior at Morgan Stanley. (ProPublica, via DealBook)

The untouchables: PBS’ Frontline investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages. (PBS)

Reuters’ Davos coverage. (Reuters)

Deutsche Bank agrees to settle energy trading inquiry. (DealBook)

U.S. bond stars bet big on equities revival. (Reuters)

Turns out Einhorn was shorting Herbalife after all. (WSJ’s MarketBeat blog)

How a Cayman hedge fund became a big shareholder in Yadkin Valley Financial. (Triad Business Journal Biz Blog)

Doug Whitman, prosecutors spar over sentencing. (WSJ’s Law Blog)

Cantab Capital Partners launches new fund. (FINalternatives)

Herakles Capital Management unveils trend-following hedge fund. (FINalternatives)

Hedge funds up 1.45% in early January. (FINalternatives)

Apollo Global Management, Metropolous & Co. to bid on Hostess Cakes. (FINalternatives)

Allen Stanford’s CFO James Davis gets five years. (FINalternatives)

Hedge fund redemptions slow in January. (FINalternatives)

People moves

Galena Asset Management energy hedge fund chief Claude Lixi said to leave company. (Bloomberg)

Everest Capital’s Marko Dimitrijevic says that while emerging and developed markets have recovered since the 2008 recession, frontier markets are still at very low values and are now growing fast.

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Due to some technical glitches over the past few weeks, as well as the holidays, we’re a little behind on performance charts. So for the next few days we’ll be running charts for two strategies per day, until we catch up. Here we take a look at December 2012 absolute performance for the top 5 dedicated short bias funds in two categories - all funds and U.S.-only funds - as tracked by Lipper’s hedge fund database. To see more analysis, including assets under management and domicile information for the top 10 funds in each category, click here for all funds and here for U.S.-only funds. To be truly connected to all the Lipper analytics available on HedgeWorld, become a HedgeWorld Premium Plus member. To find out more about how to do that, visit hedgeworld.com/membership/.