What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012:

Around the web

Is the insider trading crackdown behind lousy hedge fund returns? (Forbes)

MF Global: From vapor to vapid. (Futures Magazine)

CME sees no need to revamp futures regulation in post-MF Global market. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Victor Khosla’s Strategic Value Partners said to raise $918 million distressed debt fund. (Bloomberg)

JPMorgan slashes $710 million Lehman bankruptcy claim. (Thomson Reuters News & Insight)

Judge OKs Tranquility Master Fund claim against WaMu before bankruptcy hearing. (FINalternatives

Presenting the only beneficiary from record global leverage: finance employees. (ZeroHedge)

CME creates $100 million fund for farmers and ranchers. (DealBook)

What? MF Global European sovereign debt not enough of an issue for S&P? Since when? (Managed Futures Education Center)

Q&A: Tiburon Partners founder Mark Martyrossian bullish on Asia. (FINalternatives)

MF Global client attorney James Koutoulas explains in one sentence why JPMorgan’s involvement in MF Global is suspicious. (Clusterstock)

Super Bowl quants say Patriots will cover the spread vs. Giants. (Bloomberg)

ML Capital launching two new UCITS funds on MontLake Platform. (FINalternatives)

Soros-backed wireless startup faces big test at Super Bowl. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Was 2011’s most successful hedge fund actually a pension? (AI CIO)

Barclays’ Todd Edgar said to plan start of Atreaus Capital macro hedge fund in May. (Bloomberg)

Goldman Sachs’ Petershill fund takes stake in Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth Ltd. hedge fund. (Bloomberg)

People moves

French infrastructure investor OFI InfraVia hires three. (FINalternatives)

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