What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012:

Around the web

Hedge funds end difficult 2011 with $2 trillion in AUM. (FINalternatives)

Investors yank money out of hedge funds. (Deal Journal)

Fixing the futures market in the wake of MF Global. (Wall Street & Technology)

On Mitt Romney’s millions in Cayman Island offshore tax havens. (ZeroHedge)

Austrian pension funds report negative results for 2011. (IPE.com)

Tobin tax could increase foreign exchange costs by 18 times – Global Financial Markets Association. (IPE.com)

MF Global commodity customers must be paid first, CFTC says. (Bloomberg)

Volcker rule regulators resist lawmakers’ calls to scrap proposal. (Bloomberg)

Attack on Volcker rule seen exaggerating cost of disorder. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Regulators concerned about how to apply Volcker rule. (DealBook)

NYSE to brokers: No gambling in the casino. (WSJ’s Total Return blog)

Icahn raises bet on WebMD. (DealBook)

Goldman Sachs spent more on 2011 stock buybacks than it earned. (Bloomberg)

Hedge funds may sue Greece if it tries to force loss. (The New York Times)

Soros proves nothing rotten in Demnark as home financing excels. (Bloomberg)

Commodity price manipulation: Look for motive. (Janet Tavakoli on Huffington Post)

Jupiter Fund Management to close Bermuda office following outflows. (HFMWeek)

Kinetic Partners reveals Hong Kong office details. (HFMWeek)

Goldman Sachs asks court to order arbitration in Basis Yield Alpha lawsuit. (Bloomberg)

Back for Noam Gottesman at cost-cutting Man Group. (The Independent)

Banks, flush with $623 billion in cash, outperform sovereigns in the credit markets. (Bloomberg)

Highland Capital Management seeks end to UBS lawsuit over CDO. (FINalternatives)

Wellington Hedge Management launches $11 million offering – Pagosa Partners. (FINalternatives)

IMS acquires HedgeOp Compliance. (COOConnect)

F-Squared Investments tops $4 billion in net inflows for 2011. (Hedgeweek)

Fed back to its secretive ways, sells $7 billion in Maiden Lane II directly to Credit Suisse without public auction. (ZeroHedge)

Luxembourg braces for regulatory pressure in 2012. (InvestmentEurope)

We’re in the dark about Wall Street pay. (Felix Salmon’s blog on Reuters.com)

Debt and deleveraging: Uneven progress on the path to growth. (McKinsey & Co.)

Paul Krugman on the dubious case for privileging capital gains. (The New York Times)

Ongoing volatility makes pensions turn to macro. (HFMWeek)

‘Arbitrage’ debuting at Sundance Film Festival. (HedgeFund.net)

Bond market vet Lawrence Post’s fund hits $100 million. (HedgeFund.net)

Ex-Columbus Hill Capital Management CFO David Newmark admits embezzling $10.4 million. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Enercare accepts Octavian Advisors’ request to hold special meeting. (HedgeFund.net)

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin to parallel Dodd-Frank oversight for hedge funds and other private fund advisers. (Boston Business Journal)

It’s Goldman Sachs bonus day. (DealBook)

People moves

SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz, critic of regulator’s hedge fund probes, to leave. (FINalternatives)

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