Financial News is publishing some of the best read stories of 2010. The article below, about the departures of five partners from Stark Investments, was first published on June 24.

One of the oldest hedge fund firms in the world, whose assets are understood to have fallen by almost half over the past 18 months, has been hit by the departures of a third of its partners over the past two days. The exits include the two heads of its European business.