While betting against market upset has been “one of the longest-running and most profitable trades in recent financial history,” hedge fund manager Christopher Cole is “arguing with the passionate intensity…
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The Bridgewater Culture and "Principles" of Ray Dalio
Westport, Connecticut-based Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund firm in the world, was one of the first to “embrace quantitative analysis,” according to a recent article in The New York…
Cohen's Comeback Revisited
In a follow-up to an article it published a few days earlier, Bloomberg recently reported that hedge fund manager Steven Cohen “is preparing to raise as much as $10 billion…
Cohen Preparing for a Comeback
Billionaire Steve Cohen, the former head of the firm SAC Capital Advisors—which pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 2013 and agreed to pay a record $1.8 billion fine—is considering starting…
Buffett Wins his 10-Year, Million-Dollar Wager
Warren Buffett is the winner in the bet he made with finance professionals back in 2007 that, over the ten years between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2017, the…
Paul Tudor Jones See Struggles in Main Fund
The billionaire fund manager who “helped give rise to the hedge fund industry saw clients pull about 15% of their assets from his main fund in the second quarter,” according…
Hedge Funds Perform When Managers are Vested and Inflows are Limited
Research from NYU and Columbia University shows that hedge fund managers that invest in their own funds deliver the best results, according to a recent article in Institutional Investor. In…
Hedge Fund Coatue Invests in Data Science
Hedge funds continue their push into “big data” analysis to land trading opportunities, and Coatue Management LLC is no exception, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.…
Yale's Actively Managed Fund Performance Waning
The majority of the Yale University endowment fund is invested with active managers but, if you compare its returns to low-cost active strategies rather than to passive indices, “Yale’s active…
Tiger Cubs are Licking Their Wounds
A generation of hedge-fund firms started by protégés Tiger Global Management’s Julian Robertson, known as “Tiger Cubs”, are “among of wave of stock hedge funds that fared poorly in 2016,”…