Daily Star – Critics, as Oscar Wilde once remarked, know the price of everything and the value of nothing. This year, investors who pride themselves on being able to spot hidden value in unloved companies have struggled, while those that […]

Boston Globe – The MBTA Retirement Fund waited more than a year to disclose problems at a hedge fund firm where it had invested $10 million. The firm is now shutting down, its chief executive banned from the securities industry. […]

Bloomberg – The hedge fund Meredith Whitney started last year after she became one of Wall Street’s best-known analysts is in turmoil. Her biggest investor demanded his money back and two executives left in the past month, according to a […]

WSJ – The Federal Reserve on Thursday said it would give banks two more years to sell private equity and hedge fund stakes covered by the Volcker rule, a win for banks who had requested more time to unwind positions. […]

CNBC – Wall Street may not be the old boys club it once was, but breaking into the rarefied world of hedge funds is still easier for men than women. That’s the conclusion of a study of the class of […]

Reuters – Brevan Howard, one of Europe’s biggest hedge fund managers, has launched a fund to invest in Argentinean assets, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed. The hedge fund firm, which managed more than $34 billion at […]

NYT – A $531 million divorce judgment in a case that has riveted Britain appears poised to stand after the ex-wife of a hedge fund manager said she would not appeal the decision. In late November, a London high court […]

ValueWalk – Goldman Sachs thinks considering the top stocks based on its Sharpe ratio portfolio could help their hedge fund clients in making appropriate decisions, a recent Kickstart strategy report dated December 12 said. If it were ranked, the Goldman […]

Crain’s – Bet you didn’t know the city paid more than a half-billion dollars last fiscal year to Wall Streeters who manage pension funds for teachers, police, firefighters and other municipal workers. Bet you also didn’t know the fees have […]

Bloomberg View – This has turned out to be a year of milestones for the hedge-fund industry. It is a tale we have chronicled all year. As markets barrel into the end of the fourth quarter, it’s worth reviewing the […]

Sadis & Goldberg – The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 mandates that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) review and update the definition of an “Accredited Investor”. On October 9, 2014, the […]

Bloomberg – Randy Smith’s Alden Global Capital has been betting against the ruble for the past month and a half. Yesterday, it paid off when Russia’s currency fell as much as 19 percent. Alden, a $1.8 billion New York-based hedge […]