Hedge Funds Face-Off with the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

May 31, 2016

Who are these four horsemen? Pitiful performance, available alternatives, reduced fees, and impatient investors. Abysmal hedge fund performance has been the norm for the past five years. Hedge Fund Research reported the global hedge fund composite to be down almost 1.2 percent when averaged over the past five years. Contrast this with the S&P 500, which is up […]

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Are Hedge Funds Best Days in the Rear View Mirror?

May 16, 2016

After reading some of the articles published in response to the SALT Conference sponsored by Skybridge CEO, Anthony Scaramucci, one might be persuaded that this is the case. However, the authors of these doom and gloom pieces fail to recognize the resilience baked into the hedge fund industry by virtue of the innovative and entrepreneurial […]

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Hedge Fund Professionals Are Remarkably Secure in Their Jobs

April 25, 2016

In most professional environs, back to back years of meager performance, are likely to raise serious job security concerns among employees. However, among hedge fund professionals, this passes as faulty logic. According to the 2016 Hedge Fund Compensation Report, a meager 8 percent of hedge fund professionals participating in the survey identified as being very concerned […]

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Equity Shares Shown to Have Declined in 2015

April 4, 2016

Equity sharing is an important variable to consider in determining the level of total compensation an individual will receive from his hedge fund firm. While equity or upside sharing is not a topic typically perceived as applicable to those just beginning a career in the hedge fund field, it ultimately becomes incredibly important to the […]

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The Goldilocks Principle and Your Hedge Fund Career

March 7, 2016

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. As such, it is often associated with the search for life on other planets and explains the phenomenon of life here on planet Earth. In short, life is possible because Earth is neither too hot nor too cold, nor is […]

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Trump Defies Gravity and So Do Hedge Funds

February 22, 2016

Anyone following the primaries will recognize this phrase, used frequently in the context of Donald Trump’s foray into presidential politics. For example, in the recent South Carolina contest, the phrase was employed ubiquitously by talking heads in the mainstream media, who were largely incredulous regarding the margin of Trump’s victory in the wake of his […]

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What You Need to Know About Hedge Fund Bonuses

February 8, 2016

Bonus pay is a critical segment of one’s total compensation in the financial sector in general and hedge funds in particular. It is not uncommon for those in the highest pay bands to earn bonus pay that is many multiples of their base salary. Predictably, the percentage of one’s total compensation represented by bonus pay […]

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