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Hedge Fund Careers

The Value of Hedge Fund Regulations Questioned

November 19, 2012

After the 2008 stock market collapse, hedge funds faced increased oversight and regulation by financial authorities around the world. This not unexpected, as hedge funds can be amongst the riskiest investment classes in the market, though this is certainly not always true. Nonetheless, the industry as a whole was painted by the same brush, causing […]

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Small Hedge Funds Lead the Industry

November 12, 2012

The debate around what comprises the “secret sauce” of hedge fund investing was ramped up to another level with the recent release of a PerTrac software study. As reported in the Financial Times, the controversial study suggested that small hedge funds, generally with less than $100 million in assets, outperformed both mid sized and large […]

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Hedge Funds see a Return of the Institutional Investor

November 5, 2012

Hedge funds have seen a significant change in their investor base in the last year as wealthy individual investors exit the asset class, according to a recent Reuters article, no longer seeing the same return potential in the lower risk strategies being executed by hedge funds today. The industry is beginning a transition back to its roots […]

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Private Equity Firms a Source of Competition for Hedge Funds?

October 29, 2012

According to a recent Wall Street Journal “Deal Journal” piece, the Chinese private equity firm SAIF Partners is considering an expansion into the hedge fund business. Since the firm has been traditionally focused on growth capital type deals in the private equity space, many question whether the jump into the hedge fund space is a […]

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Hedge Fund Performance Forces Cuts

October 22, 2012

Hedge funds across the world are cutting trading desk resources as pressures on the financial industry continue. In a recent Greenwich Associates survey reported by Bloomberg, 44 percent of hedge funds indicated that they will reduce their spending on trading activities this year in comparison to 2011. This is largely the result of increasing pressure […]

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Hedge Funds Hiring Trends Follow the Cash

September 24, 2012

Despite heavy attrition after the 2008 credit crisis, hedge funds have managed to regain much of their former glory. Traders and brokers all over Wall Street have been piling into these attractive and open firms. With fewer constraints than mutual funds, hedge funds have used their trademark tools – leverage and hedging – to reap […]

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Hedge Fund Employment vs. Other Professions

September 17, 2012

Employment at a hedge fund is for many professional money managers the highpoint of their careers, or at least a very good stepping stone. So, on the whole, how many jobs were created, net of being destroyed, by the hedge fund industry in the current year compared to the previous year? Through the second quarter […]

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