ValueWalk – Hedge fund survivor bias is especially insidious for the largest firms. Large hedge fund survivor bias overstates expected performance of the biggest firms by nearly half and their risk adjusted return from security selection (stock picking) by 80%. […]

WSJ – Several big-name traders are launching hedge funds in the U.K.’s capital as a surge in startups gathers momentum. Chris Rokos, formerly of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP; David Fear, who previously ran a fund for Ziff Brothers Investments; […]

Business Insider – Since the 1990s, hedge funds have risen to become the juggernauts of the investing world, and now new firms are springing up at a rate unseen for a decade. At least five new funds, managing $1 billion […]

The Tally – Good news for investors out to play hardball with hedge funds over fees: A 0% management charge is not just wishful thinking. But don’t get too excited. Preqin has found 117 hedge funds globally charging investors zilch for […]

Bloomberg – Billionaire hedge-fund titans from George Soros to Dan Loeb have amassed stakes in Argentina’s defaulted debt on the view that whoever succeeds President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be more market-friendly. The problem, at least to some pollsters, […]

Market Watch – The six-year bull market hasn’t been profitable for all investors, particularly for those who put an equal focus on shorting stocks as they do going long on them. Such is the case with Tigershark Partners, a market-neutral […]

The Economist – In Febuary it emerged that nearly half of the richest hedge-fund managers in Britain have donated a total of £10m ($14.8m) to the Conservative party since 2010. Labour, the opposition party, has accused the Tories of dishing […]

Forbes – A major day of deal-making in the red hot biotech and pharmaceutical sector is paying for healthcare focused hedge fund Deerfield Management. On Monday, two of the fund’s largest publicly traded positions, Auspex Pharmaceuticals and Horizon Pharma HZNP […]

Bloomberg – Hedge fund investors aren’t giving up just yet. At least five new hedge fund companies are on track to start with at least $1 billion this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, after eight firms started with […]

Forbes – Billionaire Ray Dalio has already built the world’s biggest hedge fund firm, Bridgewater Associates, which manages some $160 billion. He is now also building a large philanthropic foundation. According to the most recent public tax filing made by […]

Bloomberg – Elliott Advisors accused Alliance Trust Plc and its chief executive officer, Katherine Garrett-Cox, of “unbecoming” behavior in the hedge fund’s latest sally at the 127-year-old U.K. money manager. Elliott renewed its call to install three new independent directors […]

Bloomberg – Ben S. Bernanke is going on-line. The former Federal Reserve chairman has completed a book on the financial crisis, that will be published this fall, and is now launching a blog, the Brookings Institution said on Monday. “Now […]