Leland Lim, a former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, is planning to form his own hedge fund, according to sources with knowledge of the situation interviewed by Bloomberg.

Proxy advisory firm ISS Inc has urged shareholders not to support the share buyback proposed by Carl Icahn to return more cash to its shareholders, Reuters reported.

Venture capital firm Social+Capital Partnership has appointed its former Entrepreneur in Residence or EIR Ray Ko to serve as its first Growth Partner, TechCrunch reported.

Political and financial upheaval in some of the world's largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London's supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth, data from a leading real estate agency showed on Friday.

Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of Galleon Group Founder Raj Rajaratnam, has asked the US District Court in New York to dismiss charges of insider trading filed against him last year, Reuters reported.

Alleged Silk Road operator Ross William Ulbricht will have a November 3 trial date after pleading not guilty in a Manhattan federal court, Bloomberg reported.

New Bitcoin startup investor Ben Horowitz of US-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Bitcoin skeptic Felix Salmon made a bet against each other on the status of the digital currency as a payment mechanism by 2109.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment's Head of Asian Fixed Income Sabita Prakash has left the firm, according to a source interviewed by Reuters and confirmed by a company spokesman.

Michael Carsley, a US fund manager, has informed an Australian court that he intends to drop a case against a horse betting club in the country that seeks to get back his losses, Bloomberg reported.

Glassdoor, the leading jobs and career community, today announced it has strengthened its executive leadership team with the appointment of Adam C. Spiegel as chief financial officer.