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Hedge Fund Compensation Continues to Evolve

May 3, 2010

We’ve mentioned before how institutions are putting downward pressure on the traditional “2 and 20” compensation scheme of hedge funds. Now, despite the upward trend in the markets through 2009 and into 2010, this compensation pressure seems to be gathering strength. Only 38 percent of global hedge funds surveyed by alternative investment research firm Preqin […]

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SEC Ready to Poach from Hedge Fund Jobs

April 26, 2010

Bloomberg reports that Bruce Karpati and Robert Kaplan, co-chiefs of a Securities and Exchange Commission task force targeting hedge funds, buyout firms and mutual funds, are looking for professionals with direct experience in hedge fund trading and operations to beef up their investigative teams. The SEC placed help-wanted ads last month and is actively working […]

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An Inside Look at Hedge Fund Quants

April 19, 2010

Minyanville recently interviewed Scott Patterson, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. Both the interview and the book provide an eye-opening look at the personalities behind some of the “kings of quant” including Peter Muller of […]

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Why Hedge Fund Hiring Could Be Ready to Jump

April 12, 2010

2009 turned out to be the best year ever for big money earners in hedge fund jobs, according to an article in HedgeFund.net. Quoting the annual survey of top earners released by AR: Absolute Return + Alpha Magazine, it showed the top 25 hedge fund managers made a total of $25.33 billion in 2009. That’s […]

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Hedge Fund Managers Trade Just About Anything

April 5, 2010

There’s an old story about a top trader who was so competitive, he would bet on whether an ant would cross a crack in the sidewalk. So it should come as no surprise that if anything has any effect on business or making money, it can be traded, as Investopedia recently pointed out in an […]

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Short Sellers Get No Respect

March 29, 2010

Short sellers aren’t getting their fair share of respect for the role they play in uncovering lemons, writes Don Bauder in SanDiegoReader.com Short sellers, as you know, borrow a stock, sell it, and hope to replace the shares at some later date after the stock price has dropped. They profit on the difference in stock […]

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Family Offices Poaching Hedge Fund Staff

March 22, 2010

It may not be good news for the hedge fund industry, but it does point out an alternative career path for those holding hedge fund jobs. Reuters reports that multi-family offices that serve the wealthiest individuals and families are increasingly poaching investment managers from hedge funds. And after the drubbing that the hedge fund industry […]

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