What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Monday, March 18, 2013:

Around the web

Hedge funds build Treasury bets to ‘07 high in bear rebuke. (Bloomberg)

So-called ‘wash trades’ scrutinized. (WSJ.com)

Hengistbury Investment Partners’ assets double. (Financial Times)

SAC to investors: Scrutiny isn’t over. (WSJ.com)

SAC’s Gabriel Plotkin said to have been tipped by analyst. (Bloomberg)

What comes next for SAC? (DealBook)

Elizabeth Cheval, founder and chairman of EMC Capital Management, dies at 56. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Hedge fund pioneer Edgar De Picciotto is a billionaire. (Forbes)

Highbridge raises large mezzanine fund. (Financial Times)

Form JPMorgan CIO Ina Drew refuses to take responsibility for ‘Whale’ losses. (aiCIO)

First quarter AIMA Journal reviews hedge fund regulatory change worldwide. (Opalesque)

SEC obtains asset freeze against Gregg D. Caplitz and Insight Onsite Strategic Management. (SEC)

Do hedge funds care? Yes, they really do! (April Rudin on HuffPo)

People moves

BlueCrest Capital Management hires Gracie Asset Management convertible bond head Jeff Toback. (Absolute Return)

AP3 veteran Erik Valtonen joins boutique fund house Blue Diamond Asset Management as CEO. (aiCIO)

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