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Emerging Markets Funds Lead the Way in Second Quarter

September 10, 2012

During the second quarter of 2012, one of the sources of expansion in the hedge fund industry was the addition of several new funds focused on investing in emerging markets. The Hedge Fund Review report published in August suggested that emerging markets funds now comprise 14 percent of all hedge funds, which is an increase […]

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Hedge Funds Showing Positive Signs

September 6, 2012

Hedge funds registered their best performance since February with a return of 1.1 percent for the month of July, but the performance still lagged the 1.4 percent gain of the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index. The underperformance of hedge funds in relation to the S&P 500 index was even more pronounced in the first seven […]

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Hedge Fund Growth Bodes Well For Job Seekers

September 3, 2012

There are some cold, hard facts facing hedge funds and those that are searching for hedge fund jobs. Hedge funds tracked by Hedge Fund Research were up just 2.3 percent in 2012 through early August. Over the past five years, hedge funds tracked by the Hedge Fund Research Index have returned negative 0.6 percent. Said […]

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Hedge Fund Growth Continues

August 13, 2012

Hedge funds pulled in $4.1 billion in net new capital in the second quarter of 2012. The growth in net new capital during the quarter is smaller than the approx. $16 billion net capital the industry attracted in the first quarter. The capital inflows were concentrated among large hedge funds that manage over $5 billion. […]

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Recovery of the Hedge Fund Industry

July 30, 2012

Hedge funds have grown substantially over the past decade as an alternative investment class for those that want returns not necessarily correlated with the overall market. These funds do not face the same restrictions as traditional funds such as mutual funds, and this freedom allows hedge fund managers to pursue a variety of unique investment […]

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Jobless on Wall Street

January 3, 2012

When the latest unemployment numbers were released,  it showed an unexpected drop in unemployment. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent; experts were predicting that the rate would remain at 9.0 percent. There were 120,000 new jobs added in November, many of which were in the professional and business services industries. Unfortunately, this is not […]

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Any Good News Regarding Hedge Fund Jobs?

December 12, 2011

With tighter regulations on the horizon, less-than-stellar 2011 returns, calls to end the treatment of hedge fund profits as capital gains, uncertain markets, the European debt crisis and more, it isn’t easy good news in the hedge fund job sector these days. But hey, you can get enough gloom-and-doom from other sources. It’s our job […]

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