Bloomberg – Pity the poor folks who have to write letters to investors on behalf of equity-focused hedge funds this month. Various measures of performance indicate the alternative investment vehicles may have a lot of explaining to do in March. […]

SEC – Betting on the growth of technology companies proved to be a dangerous game in March as sharp stock declines burned some prominent hedge fund investors. Hedge fund firms that suffered stinging losses last month included Viking Global Investors, […]

Forbes – The technology companies of Silicon Valley tend to be pretty generous with their employees, offering nice pay packages and perks. And if you wanted a plush job in Silicon Valley in recent years, Juniper Networks was a good […]

Morningstar – Fees count in investing. Just ask storied investor Warren Buffett, who is far ahead in his highly publicized wager with the hedge fund industry. His bet: Over 10 years, a simple index fund tracking the Standard & Poor’s 500 […]

Bloomberg – Pity the poor folks who have to write letters to investors on behalf of equity-focused hedge funds this month. Various measures of performance indicate the alternative investment vehicles may have a lot of explaining to do in March. […]

P&I – The often noisy investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz — who urge corporate leaders to rethink their strategies and expedite stock-boosting changes — generated a 48% average gain for shareholders of the companies they’ve […]

STL – Nature may abhor a vacuum, but Congress doesn’t seem to mind going for years with a giant void where the nation’s housing policy should be. The problem is that in politics, as in nature, something always rushes to fill […]

Seeking Alpha – The Twittersphere couldn’t get enough of the news today/yesterday that hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones was shutting down one of his eponymous funds, the Tudor Tensor Fund (try saying Tudor Tensor ten times fast). And critics […]

Forbes – Many super-star traders run hedge funds. George Soros, Julian Robertson, Ray Dalio, and John Paulson have all produced double digit annual returns as hedge fund managers. Hedge funds typically attract hot talent, as hedge funds can often pay top traders and investment […]

Reuters – U.S. regulators are unlikely to put rules in place that would harm high-frequency trading (HFT) as doing so would make trading more difficult and expensive for all investors, Robert Greifeld, chief executive officer of Nasdaq OMX Group said […]

AgriMoney – Hedge funds extended their bets on rising commodity prices for an eighth successive week, led by grains and by arabica coffee, in which they were at their most bullish in six years. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, […]

WSJ – Chris Cecere, criticized by Japanese authorities in 2011 for his alleged efforts to rig benchmark interest rates, has begun a new job at hedge fund Element Capital Management LLC in New York, according to people familiar with the […]