Tag: hedge funds

The term ‘alternative investment’ is an umbrella for all sorts of investments that don’t fall into one of the traditional asset classes of stocks,...

In April 2014, hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones - who we profiled last week in our article 'Paul Tudor Jones II - Shooting...

The hedge fund industry has seen some dramatic changes over the past decade, especially in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Perhaps...

The relationship between the growth in assets under management (AUM) and percentage returns is one of the hot topics in the hedge fund industry...

In the final part of our series on the top 50 biggest hedge funds in the world, we take a look at the true...

The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was enacted on 18 March 2010 and will be effective as from 1 July 2014. FATCA...

Our countdown of the 50 biggest hedge funds in the world continues with numbers 20 through 11, taking in two Tiger Cubs, a pioneering...

30: Convexity Capital Management, Boston MA, USA Founded in 2005 by former Harvard Management CEO Jack Meyer along with Maurice Samuels and David Mittelman, Convexity...

Our countdown of the 50 biggest hedge funds in the world continues, with some of the biggest names in the hedge fund universe including...

In the first part of this series on the world's top 50 biggest hedge funds, we outlined some of the trends that have been...

A Diverging Market At the moment, the hedge fund market appears to be fragmenting into two distinct groups. On one hand, you have the big...

There are lots of reasons why you might choose a career in hedge funds. Sure, it's a tough business to get into - and...

In the first part of our hedge fund career guide, we looked at some of the attributes that hedge funds tend to look for...

Ever since the investment industry was revolutionised by Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund in the 1980s, hedge funds have been a magnet for many of...

The annual Hedgeweek awards, which recognises excellence within the hedge fund industry, is a red-letter day in the hedge fund industry calendar. The awards...

Starting a hedge fund can be a route to unimaginable riches - but if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Here, we...

Although hedge funds have always employed a range of strategies to achieve their goal of absolute returns, today's hedge fund managers have a broader...

Over the years, hedge funds have tended to capture the public imagination at times of economic extremes. In boom times, they have been held...

Hedge funds are essentially a very high-end type of pooled investment fund, similar in some ways to the mutual funds, unit trusts, and ETFs...