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Giving Hedge Fund Managers an Edge

October 10, 2011

Information about what Congressmen and other Washington insiders are talking about is at a premium these days. And apparently people who are able to glean that information and make it available to hedge fund managers and other Wall Street executives can earn a pretty penny doing so. The Wall Street Journal reports that government regulatory […]

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Hedge Fund Managers Optimistic for 2011

April 25, 2011

Hedge fund managers are more confident that opportunities will improve in 2011 as the global economy recovers, according to a new survey released by the accounting and audit firm, Rothstein Kass. Managers expect more funds to be chasing after the institutional and pension fund money that is already flowing into hedge funds at record levels. […]

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Best Recruiter Ever for Boutique Hedge Fund Jobs?

January 24, 2011

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker has inadvertently become perhaps the best recruiter ever for hedge fund and trading jobs at small financial firms, notes the Wall Street Journal in a recent article. The so-called Volcker rule, passed last year as part of the financial regulatory overhaul, has forced hundreds of traders from Wall Street’s biggest banks to […]

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A Look Ahead for Hedge Fund Jobs in 2011

December 27, 2010

The hedge fund industry has struggled through the market crisis of 2008-2009 and then a subsequent tough fundraising environment. Now, it finally looks like there’s some light at the end of the tunnel, as greater liquidity and transparency of funds has boosted investor confidence … and new capital is flowing back into the asset class. […]

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Do Hedge Fund Analysts Cross the Line?

November 29, 2010

Wall Street depends on research, and analysts at hedge fund jobs and big pension funds get paid big bucks to uncover information about companies. But just how far is too far when it comes to “research”? That was the question posed to Stephen Bainbridge, who teaches law at the University of California, Los Angeles, in […]

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Hedge Fund Manager among the World’s Youngest Billionaires

October 11, 2010

Hedge fund manager John Arnold, 36, made the list of Forbes Magazine’s youngest billionaires, with a net worth of $4 billion. Surprisingly, that only put him at number 212 on a list of 937 billionaires worldwide. Arnold started as an oil trader for Enron in the 1990s. When Enron collapsed, he founded Centaurus Advisors, LLC, […]

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How Hedge Funds Lure Proprietary Traders

October 4, 2010

The passage of the Volcker Rule in July is having its effect on hedge funds. The Volcker Rule limits banks from making risky bets with their own capital and from investing more than 3 percent of assets into hedge funds or private equity firms. There’s already been talk that major banks such as Goldman Sachs […]

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