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June 25, 2007
Europe's top 50 firms manage more than $300 billion.
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June 24, 2007
Michael Azlen is using traditional and alternative market indexes to create new sources of alpha.
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June 24, 2007
The collateralized fund obligation has just turned five, and the first issues come due this summer.
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June 24, 2007
Relative-value arbitrage funds have struggled in recent months, underperforming the market.
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June 24, 2007
When Lehman Brothers investment banker Erin Callan flew from New York to Chicago last spring to meet Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel Investment Group, she wasn't sure just what to say to the billionaire hedge fund manager.
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June 24, 2007
While Orin Kramer diversifies a NJ pension plan, Unions try to fire him.
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June 24, 2007
Philippe Jabre has turned his back on London -- and finally begun to distance himself from the specter of market abuse.
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June 24, 2007
Ninety-three percent of respondents to our latest InvestorForum survey use separately managed accounts for non-hedge-fund investments.
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June 24, 2007
TCU shows that smaller can be better.
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June 24, 2007
John Dickerson is no longer swimming alone in the world of water-related investing.
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June 24, 2007
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June 24, 2007
The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension & Retirement System was such an early entrant into hedge funds that at the time of its initial investment in 2000, funds of hedge funds were still uncharted territory among pension plans, and many single-manager firms wouldn't even take public pension money for fear of the added transparency it would necessitate.
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June 24, 2007
Political Challenge
For public pension plan executives, the politics of investing in hedge funds can at times be more challenging than finding and vetting the managers with whom to entrust their money.
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June 24, 2007
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley takes on hedge funds.
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June 24, 2007
Hedge funds have gained plenty of notoriety for the high-pressure tactics they employ to restructure companies and reshape their boardrooms.
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June 24, 2007
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June 24, 2007
During a 2004 business trip to several developing countries in Asia -- beginning in Korea and ending in India, with stops at all the investable countries in between -- David Chon noticed that the quality of the hotels and restaurants he visited was comparable to that of Manhattan's finest.
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June 24, 2007
Long-only hedge funds are delivering handsome returns, but a reluctance to commit to unhedged offerings has kept most managers away.
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June 24, 2007
The time is now.
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June 24, 2007
Hedge funds are incorporating computer-ready news feeds into their trading.
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June 24, 2007
The folks at the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association are mad, and they're not going to take it any more. In fact, they have filed a lawsuit.
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June 24, 2007
Squash, says K2 Advisors' William Douglass, is the perfect sport to help a disadvantaged kid gain some leverage.