FIN – As hedge fund industry assets have risen, so have paychecks: average compensation is up between 5% and 10% to date in 2013, according to new research from HFR and Glocap. The 2014 Glocap Hedge Fund Compensation Report found […]

CNN – Puerto Rico has been called the next Detroit and the next Greece. It’s buried in debt and possibly teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. But that isn’t scaring away hedge funds. So-called vulture investors that buy the bonds […]

Two former analysts of Jim Chanos’s Kynikos Associates Ltd., which rose to fame shorting Enron Corp., started a new London-based hedge fund earlier this month to bet on falling stocks globally. The Arhammar Short Alpha Fund Ltd., which started on […]

Pension Funds Insider – Two apparently contradictory items of news were released at the end of January – on the one hand it was reported that hedge funds’ saw their second worst year ever and on the other we read […]

Business Insider – There has been a recent flurry of activity regarding Puerto Rico, involving their debt, rating agency views of that debt, the bond insurers that have been insuring their debt, the state-specific mutual funds that are holding Puerto […]

Bloomberg – There’s a new dating website in town. This one doesn’t care if you like brunettes, how often you shower, or if you would ever have sex on a first date. Instead, it wants to know what you like in a […]

Barron’s – Reading connected in one way or another to investing in funds: The Federal Reserve is to blame for what could well be the start of a new Asian financial crisis. –Michael J. Casey, Wall Street Journal Hedge-fund assets […]

Reuters – Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is looking at more investments in emerging markets in order to diversify beyond developed nations, said a senior executive of Credit Suisse who is one of the top advisors to the fund. With assets estimated […]

Bloomberg – ThinkStrategy Capital Management LLC’s Chetan Kapur, who initially was accused of deceiving investors about returns in his hedge funds, avoided prison when he was sentenced to time served for failure to preserve books and records of an investment. […]

FINalternatives – The 2013 iteration of Rocktoberfest, one of the most unusual fundraising events on the hedge fund industry calendar, has raised $400,000 for the A Leg To Stand On charity. Finance industry professionals from the Tri-State area gathered in […]

Data Room – One of Nine Entertainment Co’s two US hedge fund owners has agreed to retain its entire stake in the company, as the first details of pricing in its upcoming float have emerged. Media understands that the company […]