The Hedge Fund Industry Is On a Winning Streak

It’s mid-August and we have reliable data on hedge fund performance through July 2017. According to reports, hedge funds, in the aggregate, have achieved July gains of 0.88 percent and year-to-date gains of 4.27 percent, marking nine straight months of positive...

Hedge Funds Are Killing It in the First Half of 2017

According to this recent article in the Institutional Investor, hedge funds are enjoying their best year since 2009. This statement is based upon data from Preqin, which touts itself as “the alternative asset industry’s leading source of data and intelligence,...

Two Issues Are Looming Large for Hedge Funds

About six months from today, the European Union is scheduled to implement MiFID II, imposing a punishing regulatory burden on any firm engaged with the European markets. This ironic turn of events, given the current administration’s efforts to turn back the tide of...

Is the Hedge Fund Industry in a Battle for Its Life?

According to this article in the New York Post, “hedge funds are dancing with the devil”, but the persona of that devil is something of a mystery. Is that devil a hostile press or disgruntled investors? Is it the SEC and other lawyers cruising for a payday or is it...
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