(New York Post) Frank “Perk” Hixon, the former Evercore Partners senior managing director who pleaded guilty in 2014 to insider trading, shouldn’t expect a warm family reunion when he is released from a halfway house next month. His younger brother […]

(Bloomberg) Buying the losers of the past decade could pay off in a world where Donald Trump is in charge of the world’s biggest economy.Norwegian hedge fund firm Sector Asset Management, which manages about $1.7 billion, is turning its portfolios […]

(Valuewalk) Hedge funds’ shrinking returns and escalating investor demands. Downward pressure on fees and unrelenting requirements to have robust operating models. This year, competing forces came together to culminate in the perfect storm. In a year marked by lackluster performance […]

(The Business Insider) Reuters reports Starboard Value, the activist hedge fund behind shake-ups at Yahoo Inc and Marvell Technology Group Ltd , has notched an investment return of more than 10 percent this year on the back of boardroom deals […]

(Hedgeweek) The hedge fund industry saw its lengthy run of positive performance taper off in October, as funds recorded net returns of just 0.01 per cent, according to data released by Preqin. Most leading strategies recorded modest gains, with credit […]

(FinAlternatives) Bond maven and DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach warned on an investor webcast Tuesday that Donald Trump’s popularity could fade if the new president-elect can’t spur economic and job growth quickly enough to meet the high expectations of his […]

(FinAlternatives) Dallas-based distressed asset specialist Lone Star Funds has raised $5.6 billion in capital commitments for its tenth private equity fund. To read this article:

(FinAlternatives) Hedge funds posted their first decline in seven months in October, according to the latest reading of Eurekahedge’s Hedge Fund Index, although managers still outperformed underlying markets for the period. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Asia’s hedge funds had the highest investor withdrawals last month in more than four years as the industry is struggling with lackluster returns. Hedge funds investing in Asia excluding Japan suffered net outflows of $2.1 billion, or 1.3 percent […]

(Bloomberg) About five years ago, Kentucky started investing some of its public-employee pension money with hedge funds. Sure, fees were high but the funds came with the lure of high returns and could serve as a buffer if the market […]

(Daily Alts) Financial advisors, fill in the blank: retirement ______? If you said “income,” you have plenty of company. After all, while many retirees and pre-retirees hope to use their accumulated wealth to leave an estate, give to charity and […]

(Valuewalk) Hedge fund exposure to stock sectors and was adjusted after the US Presidential election, a JPMorgan Prime Brokerage survey shows. Immediately following the election, hedge funds could be seen making decided plays relative to stock sector categories which implied […]