Hedge Funds

One of the great clichés of the dotcom boom was, “information wants to be free.” This conveyed a number of…

On May 20th of this year, the army in Thailand declared martial law, at the same time denying that what it…

By Andrew Beer A vexing issue with hedge funds is the lack of persistence of returns. Last year’s winners…

Nobody ever said winning alpha was going to be easy. Among the people who don’t say that, count the author of…

Below you’ll find a chart that covers one year in the life of the Nikkei 225, concluding June 27, 2014. It is…

As Brendan Conway aptly observed in Barron’s, late last year, there are “too many hedge funds with too much…

On Monday, June 16th, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a stunningly complete victory for NML Capital, the…

Certain short sellers seem to act on the principle that if a public corporation has a great attachment to…

The independent data provider Eurekahedge tells us in its latest report that alternative investment vehicles…

Last year legendary investor Warren Buffett, with help from a law professor, Lawrence Cunningham, brought out…

Many of recent history’s most significant market events have manifest in what was (previously) the extreme of…

By Rick Ehrhart, JD A long-standing drawback of hedge fund incentive compensation has finally reached a…

GFIA, in its May 2014 “Research Insights,” reviewed the troubles of Japan’s equity markets in April and its…

By Andrew Beer By one estimate, the hedge fund industry managed $2.6 trillion in capital at year-end 2013.…

The European Securities and Markets Authority kicked off the consultation process for the implementation of…