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...

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...

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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