02/17/2014
Investment Diamond Exchange, a Los Angeles based firm that specializes in the facilitation of rough and polished diamond transactions, recently expanded its workforce in response to the increasing number of hedge funds and other financial institutions ac
02/13/2014
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2014 measured 1.39%.
02/13/2014
The Fortress Investment Group, the first publicly listed hedge fund in the United States, has bought back a stake from Nomura, one of its principal investors.
02/13/2014
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins who achieved fame after they filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, immortalized in the movie, “The Social Network," are backing a new hedge fund run by fellow Harvard University gradua
02/12/2014
U.S. millionaires view real estate as the top alternative-asset class to own this year
02/12/2014
One of the best stock pickers in America last month was a 56-year-old Taiwanese immigrant working out of a small office in suburban New Jersey, 40 kilometres from Wall Street.
02/11/2014
KKR & Co LP disclosed on Monday it would liquidate two funds targeting individual investors, in a blow to the private equity firm's efforts to widen its appeal beyond institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance firms.
02/10/2014
Most hedge funds that bet on broad macroeconomic trends lost money in January, hurt by reversing equity markets and wrong-way currency bets.
02/07/2014
With broker's commission spent falling in recent years and a subsequent increase in technology costs, Jonathan Werts, head of broker-dealer execution, told Traders that the sellside needed to outsource and defray some of its costs, such as white-labe
02/05/2014
Former Deutsche Bank AG mortgage-bond trader Troy Dixon’s new investment firm is projecting its first hedge fund will start in July with $200 million of capital.
02/05/2014
Helen of Troy may not be as famous as its classical namesake. But the consumer company, whose brands include the housewares maker OXO International, may be the subject of a fight all the same.
02/05/2014
Tocqueville Bullion Reserve, a hedge fund that will invest 100% of its net assets in gold bullion, launched in January with $27 million.
02/04/2014
Regulators say some unscrupulous managers inflate the value of illiquid holdings
02/04/2014
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Diversified Global Asset Management Corporation, a global manager of hedge funds with more than $6.7 billion in managed and advised assets.
02/03/2014
A barbell trend emerged in 2013. On one hand, hands-off passive management among indexed products fueled a fee race to the bottom. On the other, investors paid a premium to glean more specialized exposures, including short-duration and unconstrained fixed
02/03/2014
Mr. Sender, who moved to Florida several years ago, is known for considering art as an investment. His sales of 30 contemporary art works in 2006 totaled more than $19 million, a sixfold return on his investment.
02/03/2014
Larger global footprint with offices in San Francisco, New York, the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, and Toronto.
02/03/2014
The firm, which will manage about $9 billion for Cohen in addition to employee money, plans to have three trading units after the restructuring, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the firm is private.
01/31/2014
Two major stock-focused hedge funds to Close
The back-to-back farewells from the New York-based firms mark two of the hedge-fund industry's largest closures in recent years.
01/30/2014
While growth rates will be highest in Asia and lowest in the more mature US market, the growth drivers will be the same across all markets