What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Tuesday, March 19, 2013:

Around the web

The best golfers on Wall Street. (Clusterstock)

Employees Retirement System of Texas to invest up to $600 million in hedge funds. (Pensions & Investments, via MFA Blog)

JPMorgan hid trades banned by Volcker rule, Senate probe finds. (Bloomberg)

‘They’re just stupid quants, really.’ (Advanced Trading)

Dollars and nuggets part I: Cycles and the big picture. (All About Alpha)

Michael Bloomberg and John Liu’s losing investment. (The New York World)

The lesson of JPMorgan’s ‘Whale’ trade: Nothing was learned. (ProPublica)

FATCA biggest concern of hedge fund directors. (WSJ’s Corruption Currents blog)

Harbinger not shy about Frederick’s of Hollywood. (FINalternatives)

Hedge funds still trail S&P 500: BofAML. (FINalternatives)

JPMorgan ‘Whale’ pushed for ‘young’ trader who later took his job. (Bloomberg)

A failed Whale, and how to fix it. (The Nation)

Derivatives rules could force schemes to abandon hedging strategies: NAPF. (Professional Pensions)

People moves

State Street’s InfraHedge gets Robert Picard as North American president. (FINalternatives)

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