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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Hedge Fund Compensation Survey Now Open

October 30, 2012

The sixth annual Hedge Fund Compensation Survey, conducted by Job Search Digest, publishers of Hedge Funds Jobs Digest is now underway and seeks to unveil trends and changes in hedge fund pay practices. The Hedge Fund Compensation Survey is crafted to collect data directly from those that work every day in the Hedge Fund industry […]

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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 Fund Returns Declining, Risk Taking Up

October 15, 2012

The first three quarters of 2012 have been rather weak for the hedge fund industry, posting returns of 3.04 percent, when compared to the relative strength of the S&P 500 index, which returned 13.97 percent over the same period. Mary Ann Bartels, an analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told the Financial Post that […]

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Hedge Fund Industry Posts Strong Performance in August

October 11, 2012

The hedge fund industry has posted strong gains in August, according to a Reuters report, lifted by rising global equity markets. The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index rose 83 basis points in August and has posted a 6.76 percent return over the first eight months of 2012. This index tracks the hedge funds administered […]

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