Rand Paul Rails Against Wall Street While Taking Its Cash
Top political donors are multi-billion hedge fund as Paul seeks to benefit from populist sentiment deep within both parties Potential Republican presidential candidate, US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is...
View ArticleAIMA’s Future Role As Hedge Fund Assets Could Top $5 Trillion
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is a leading educational and advocacy group for the global hedge fund industry. The association has doubled both staff and revenue over the last...
View ArticleBAE Retracts Hedge Fund Cyberattack Allegation
A BAE spokeswomen says the alleged hedge fund hacking attack was not real and was just one of several “illustrative scenarios” that BAE has developed BAE Systems PLC (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BAESY) (LON:BA)...
View ArticleAsia May Overtake North America In HNWI Wealth By 2015
High net worth individuals (HNWI) population and wealth grew in 2013 Asia Pacific may surpass the U.S. in 2015 in both number and wealth of HNWI, according to Capgemini Financial Services. The firm...
View ArticleAfter Nailing “Big Short,” Eisman Closing Hedge Fund
Fund manager who bet against subprime mortgages while at Morgan Stanley fund couldn't raise significant assets even as he identified next big short Professional money manager Steve Eisman found the...
View ArticleCQS Sees Value In EU Bank Regulation Complexity
Greg Sadler, Financials Credit Trader at CQS, sees opportunity in European banking complexity. CQS: Bank capital securities have less risk than reputation suggests Writing in the hedge fund’s CQS...
View ArticleShort Interest Grows in Alcatel Lucent SA (ALU)
Hedge fund managers outperforming market on European short positions, "ridiculous alpha"European short positions disclosed by hedge fund managers outperformed an equivalent short on the general...
View ArticleOch-Ziff Names Ex SEC Official Becker As Chief Legal Counsel
Och-Ziff hired Becker to replace Jeff Blockinger, who stepped down from his position. A person familiar with the hedge fund said Blockinger's resignation is not related to a government...
View ArticleThe Hedge Fund All-Star List [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hedge funds are a vehicle that some of the wealthiest people in the world use to invest their capital, and the people managing the funds can make a killing. As evidenced by the above infographic,...
View ArticleFavorite Mutual Fund Stock Holdings Q2 2014
Goldman Sachs creates new "baskets" of mutual fund most favored and least favored stocks to give investors insights into institutional strategyGoldman Sachs Portfolio Equity Research published an...
View ArticleJim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies Questioned Over Taxes
Senator Carl Levin is convening a Senate panel to investigate the questionable tax strategies of Renaissance TechnologiesBloomberg published an article on Saturday, July 12th, reporting that a U.S....
View ArticleCitadel Discloses 9.5 Percent Stake In PHH Corporation
PHH Corporation recently completed the sale of its fleet management services business to Element Financial Corp for approximately $1.4 billionCitadel Advisors LLC, a hedge fund headed by Kenneth...
View ArticleHedge Fund AUM Hits Another Record In H1 2014
Despite mixed returns, hedge fund AUM grew by US$105.6 billion in the first half of 2014 bringing the current AUM of the global hedge fund industry to a record high of US$2.12 trillion, according to...
View ArticleHedge Fund Concern Over AIFMD At Record High
As the 22 July 2014 authorization deadline for the AIFMD approaches, new research from Preqin, based on a survey of 150 hedge fund managers, reveals that the majority of hedge fund managers (59%) think...
View ArticleJoe Peta on Baseball, Stocks and Performance Analysis
A Conversation with Joe Peta on Baseball, Stocks and Performance Analysis by Elliot Turner, Compounding My Interests I’m very excited to share my interview with Joe Peta here. Joe is the author of...
View ArticleWhat Really Happened To Hedge Funds In March
By Stanley Altshuller, Co-Founder, Chief Research Officer, Novus Over the past several weeks, Novus has been following the behavior of hedge funds stocks relative to the markets. We’ve identified some...
View ArticleRand Paul Rails Against Wall Street While Taking Its Cash
Top political donors are multi-billion hedge fund as Paul seeks to benefit from populist sentiment deep within both parties Potential Republican presidential candidate, US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is...
View ArticleAIMA’s Future Role As Hedge Fund Assets Could Top $5 Trillion
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is a leading educational and advocacy group for the global hedge fund industry. The association has doubled both staff and revenue over the last...
View ArticleEton Park Has Tough Q1; Hurt By Special Investments, eBay, VOD
The multi-strategy hedge fund Eton Park scored a +1.1% return in the second quarter, which led to a total gain of 1.4% for the first half of the year. The famous hedge fund with $15 billion in assets,...
View ArticleRenaissance Defends ‘Basket Options’ In Front Of US Senate
Renaissance argues that basket options met a strategic goal independent of tax benefitsThe US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations called Peter F. Brown, Co-Chief Executive Officer and...
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