2013 Hedge Fund Compensation Survey

Oct 20, 2013 | Hedge Fund Compensation

Benchmark Compensation has opened its seventh annual Hedge Fund Compensation Survey. Each year, the Hedge Fund Compensation Survey provides a benchmark for compensation practices by collecting data directly from the professionals who work in the industry. The purpose...

An Element of Hypocrisy

Oct 1, 2013 | Basics, Hedge Fund Compensation, News, Regulation

SAC Capital Advisers, LLC has been embroiled in legal battles with the SEC for more than a decade, most revolving around the issue of insider trading. When the practice of insider trading among members of the Senate and Congress (including their staffers) received...

What to Do When Your Firm Heads South

Sep 17, 2013 | Basics

Millions of Americans have lost jobs in the years following the economy’s implosion and it is an unquestioned blow to their self-esteem, finances and life in general. Americans are particularly vulnerable to the effects of job loss on self-esteem. Culturally, a...

There Is No Market for Good News

Aug 23, 2013 | Basics

Headlines are designed to attract the interest of readers. In the past, when print media was king, headlines sold newspapers (and of course they still do). Now, in a news world dominated increasingly by the Internet, headlines are still the best means of encouraging...

No Billboards—Not Yet!

Aug 9, 2013 | Basics, Jobs, News, Regulation

Hedge funds will soon be venturing into uncharted territory—marketing sophisticated investments, once the purview of the über-wealthy and institutional investors, to the broader retail market. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), pursuant to a mandate put...

Hedge Funds Seek to Secure a Future in Retail Alternatives

Jul 1, 2013 | Basics

Hedge fund managers are casting a jealous eye upon the lucrative retail market as institutional investors hammer hedge fund fee structures in the ongoing quest for improved value in their investments. Small Pool—Vast Ocean Hedge funds managers are beginning to...

Are Exceptional Hedge Fund Results Becoming Exceptional?

Jun 17, 2013 | Basics

Hedge funds pursuing an equity strategy demonstrated year-to-date average returns of around 5.38 percent, comparing rather unfavorably with the S&P 500 year-to-date returns, which boasted gains of almost double this number. Given this fact, why do investors...

Investors React to SAC’s Battle with Regulators

Jun 7, 2013 | Basics

Just days after SAC Capital Advisers announced a claw-back policy designed to monetarily punish those in the firm found complicit in insider trading, Cohen announced to clients he would no longer offer unconditional cooperation with government investigators. Some have...

Is SAC Capital’s Claw-Back Policy Just a PR Move?

May 17, 2013 | News, Regulation

The term hedged fund was coined by Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949 and gained traction in the financial community largely because Jones was a financial journalist. Although Jones founded a private investment company, he was hardly the father of the hedge fund industry....

Are Hedge Funds Becoming Irrelevant

Apr 6, 2013 | Basics, News, Strategies

As the quinquennial of the financial crisis approaches, the intrinsic value of the hedge fund industry is being questioned by growing numbers of institutional investors. After nearly a decade of underperformance as compared to major equity indices, this should come as...
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