ValueWalk – Hedge Funds have a generally high correlation to the stock market, a new study of hedge fund trends from Barclays PLC points out, but investors appear to be betting this is “the year of the hedge fund revival.” […]

Fortune – Seven years into a 10-year performance wager, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO is winning easily. Results are in for the seventh year of what’s sometimes called The Million-Dollar Bet—Warren Buffett’s 10-year wager that the S&P 500 would outperform a […]

Reuters – Billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who oversees only his personal fortune after decades of running one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, wants to recruit newly minted college graduates into his army of hundreds of investment professionals. Less than […]

WSJ – Hedge fund Standard General LP is in talks to serve as the lead bidder at a bankruptcy auction for struggling consumer-electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. , according to people familiar with the matter. RadioShack, which is running out of […]

CNBC – Six hedge fund managers gave their best investment ideas at an exclusive—and private—conference, including new bets against companies. The investors were part of a session to present one long and one short idea each at Morgan Stanley’s “Breakers” […]

WSJ – For more than a decade, Brevan Howard traced a smooth upward path to become one of the most powerful hedge funds in Europe. In recent months, its fortunes have waned. Its commodities fund was closed following a run […]

Seattle Times – Hedge funds have made about $1.5 trillion for investors after management fees in the past 10 years, according to an industry lobby group seeking to counter criticism over performance and costs. Those cumulative gains came “despite the […]

This Is Money – Savers received a shock warning this week: Armageddon is coming so get out of the stock market while you can. Crispin Odey, the hedge fund manager who forecast the credit crunch, warned that the world’s biggest […]

WSJ – Investors pulled more than $4 billion from Brevan Howard ’s flagship hedge fund in the seven months to December, as poor returns pushed the portfolio to its first ever calendar year loss. Calculations by The Wall Street Journal, […]

Bloomberg – Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. proprietary trader Morgan Sze will run his Hong Kong-based hedge fund with a leaner team after planned senior departures, said a person who has seen a letter sent to investors. Two partners will […]

AP – Nearly four years after he confessed to running a massive fraud scheme, a former hedge fund manager is expected to be sentenced in a Connecticut case that had its biggest fallout in Venezuela, where the state oil company […]

WSJ – Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman is used to calling the shots at the listed companies he frequently targets. So there is a certain irony in the fact that it is other hedge funds, he says, who are responsible […]