2014: A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
Record breaking index growth (e.g. the S&P 500’s positive percentage change stood at 11.39%) in the year ending 2014, highlighted a comparatively lackluster year for hedge fund performance, which, on average, showed modest gains averaging around 3.5%. Despite a...Hedge Funds Face Continued Challenges in 2015
Several significant challenges confront the industry as 2014 draws its last breaths, not the least of which is the trend away from traditional 2 and 20 fee structures. Fee Structures No single event brought this into clearer focus than the CalPERS’ $4 billion...Will Hedge Funds Supplant Venture Capital?
Hedge funds have long been the funambulists and contortionists of the circus that we call the financial sector. It was not so long ago that hedge funds pushed into real estate, purchasing thousands of single family homes in selected markets. Recently, the hedge fund...Finders Are Keepers and the Swiss Are Weepers
Joseph B. Galbraith, former principal of Florida hedge fund Galbraith Capital Investment Management Corp., has made the rogue’s list, subsequent to his apparent refusal to return $1.483 million mistakenly deposited in one of his firm’s accounts by an arguably...A New Threat to Small Hedge Funds and the Less Affluent Investor
A debate brews between the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the hedge fund industry about proposed changes to the current definition of accredited investor. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires this definition be...Are You Paid What You Are Worth? Find Out.
