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Legendary short seller Jim Chanos: Uber and Lyft went public because they had...
Billionaire short seller Jim Chanos says the current market environment is similar to the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s, but not as dangerous as 2008. "I'm stunned at the number of huge loss-making...
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Meet the 5 rising stars presenting their investment ideas at the world's...
For nearly a quarter century, the Sohn Conference has brought together the best and the brightest in the investment world to pitch their ideas in front of thousands of their peers, spring-boarding many...
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Legendary short seller Jim Chanos: Uber and Lyft went public because they had...
Billionaire short seller Jim Chanos says the current market environment is similar to the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s, but not as dangerous as 2008. "I'm stunned at the number of huge loss-making...
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A startup founded by a former hedge fund manager gives traders as much...
Essentia Analytics, founded by a former hedge fund manager turned software company president, wants to help traders identify decisions that make money and avoid those that don't. By analyzing under...
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Pricey data, slashed fees, and poor returns are hurting hedge funds' margins...
Hedge funds' margins are under pressure as fees decrease and expensive alternative data becomes table stakes.With the industry maturing, some of the biggest managers have expanded their businesses...
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Hedge-fund managers are overwhelmed by data, and they're turning to an...
With the amount of data available growing astronomically, hedge funds continue to search for the most efficient way to filter through it all to gain an edge, all while industry margins shrink as fees...
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The booming private market has some hedge funds spreading into private...
Hedge funds and private equity firms are no longer staying in their lanes and are increasingly jumping between public and private markets.The convergence of hedge funds and private equity has led to...
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JPMorgan's Highbridge Capital is unwinding a $2 billion fund and now turning...
JPMorgan's Highbridge Capital believes investors want more specialized hedge funds, so it is shutting down its $2 billion multi-strategy flagship fund.Three of the four lead portfolio managers will...
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Multi-billion-dollar hedge fund manager Daniel Sundheim is pumping up...
Hedge fund manager Daniel Sundheim of D1 Capital Partners believes Netflix stock could more than double.However, Sundheim was bearish on the Canadian cannabis industry, calling it the closest thing to...
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JPMorgan's Highbridge Capital is unwinding a $2 billion fund and now turning...
JPMorgan's Highbridge Capital believes investors want more specialized hedge funds, so it is shutting down its $2 billion multi-strategy flagship fund.Three of the four lead portfolio managers will...
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The quiet rock stars of hedge funds are data junkies, and they're in such...
At BattleFin's two-day conference in New York last week, 150 alternative-data companies jockeyed for the attention of data buyers from hedge funds like Credit Suisse's QT Fund, ExodusPoint, Millennium,...
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'Wizard of Oz' Greg Coffey's new fund is up nearly 7% so far this year as he...
Greg Coffey, the former star trader at GLG Partners and co-CIO of Moore Capital, is nicknamed the "Wizard of Oz."His new fund returned 6.9% year-to-date through the end of May 2019, according to a...
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One of this year's top hedge funds has been $7 billion Melvin Capital run by...
Gabe Plotkin's $7 billion Melvin Capital has notched returns over 35% through May, sources say, after finishing last year down 7%.Plotkin's fund, which was launched at the end of 2014 with a $200...
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In its return to the Bellagio, Scaramucci's SALT conference shuns hedge funds...
The 10th edition of Anthony Scaramucci's SALT conference brought nearly 2,000 people to Las Vegas' Bellagio hotel this week and diverted from its prior focus on just hedge funds.Politicians, not hedge...
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One of this year's top hedge funds has been $7 billion Melvin Capital run by...
Gabe Plotkin's $7 billion Melvin Capital has notched returns over 35% through May, sources say, after finishing last year down 7%.Plotkin's fund, which was launched at the end of 2014 with a $200...
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Hedge funds are failing left and right and billionaire investors say the...
Hedge funds got out to a roaring start in 2019, but have slipped since, with the average fund underperforming the overall market.Investors, many of whom put up with net losses in their hedge fund...
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Bridgewater's Ray Dalio struggled with finding his successor. For billionaire...
Big names like David Tepper and Leon Cooperman have opted to close their hedge funds instead of transitioning their business to new management, but investors see more and more founders planning for...
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The hedge fund industry has a problem with managers cherry-picking...
The CFA Institute released new performance-reporting standards on Tuesday, and the $3.2 trillion hedge fund industry will have to decide if it wants to opt in to the updated rules.Industry watchers say...
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Hedge funds are getting swamped by alternative data. Some want to fast-track...
New alternative data companies are popping up everyday, and hedge funds are getting overwhelmed by choice. Some have developed a way to evaluate data more quickly.Two hedge funds, Balyasny and...
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A billionaire hedge fund manager and his wife maintained social and...
Glenn Dubin and his wife, Eva Andersson Dubin, have been friendly with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein for decades.A Business Insider investigation revealed new ties between the Dubins and Epstein,...
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