(CNBC) An elite club of managers rode bull markets and increased dispersion between securities to score profits of at least 20 percent through the end of October, a dramatic improvement from last year for investors such as Larry Robbins, Philippe […]

(Dealbreaker) Back in the old days, an ethically challenged trading desk might find it profitable to step in just prior to large client orders, coordinate a plan of attack over phone, and then swarm in….But in the 21st century, that […]

(All About Alpha) Historically, successful managers have claimed credit for the favorable risk/return profiles of their funds, touting skilled security selection and portfolio management as a competitive edge. But the advent of investible benchmarks for a number of hedge fund […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds returned an average of 1.22 per cent in October and are up 7.18 per cent YTD in 2017, according to eVestments….Eighty per cent of the industry is positive in 2017, with average gains from those funds in […]

(Opalesque) Hedge Funds extended their winning streak to 12 months with a 0.96% gain in October, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is up 8.31% for the year and has gained 10.40% since the […]

(Bloomberg) A jailed hedge-fund founder and the government’s star witness in the fraud trial of two embattled technology entrepreneurs said he kept his cooperation deal with U.S. prosecutors even after lying to them for years about the extent of his […]

(Bloomberg) A new smart beta trend is kicking off, but for once you won’t find BlackRock Inc. leading the pack. The world’s biggest money manager, whose iShares exchange-traded funds are the gateway drug for many into the world of smart […]

(Harvest) Cryptocurrencies have surely been the best-performing asset class of 2017.The crown jewel of the crypto world Bitcoin has run up over 604% year to date. But that pales in comparison to Ethereum’s 3,562% gain this year.Naturally, these sorts of […]

(Bloomberg) Ted Seides, who conceded a bet to Warren Buffett that passive investing can beat active money managers, has soured on hedge funds that use long/short strategies. Seides, managing partner at Hidden Brook Investments, said the funds are struggling to […]

(Bloomberg) The Middle East is kicking things up a notch in the oil market. Hedge-fund bets on rising Brent crude hit a fresh record as tension in the oil-rich region escalated, sending prices to their highest in more than two […]

(FINalternatives) The much-maligned tax treatment of carried interest for investment fund managers, currently absent from the Senate’s current tax reform proposal, is likely to be addressed in any final plan, Pennsylvania Republican senator Pat Toomey said on Friday. To read […]

(Bloomberg) A useful way to think about modern electronic market structure is that in the olden days humans traded stocks and options, making markets based on gut instinct, and then those humans were replaced by computers that used algorithms that […]