Aug 18, 2017 | Basics, Hedge Fund Rankings
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...
Oct 10, 2011 | Hedge Fund Rankings
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates headed the list of the top 10 hedge fund rankings in America according to a recent survey released by Absolute Return + Alpha Magazine. Dalio founded Bridgewater in his Manhattan apartment when he was in his early 20s, says...
Oct 3, 2011 | Hedge Fund Rankings, Strategies
Smaller hedge funds have been outperforming mid-size and larger funds, and younger funds have been outdistancing older ones, according to recent research from PerTrac, a leading hedge fund analytics firm. Their most recent report, “Impact of Fund Size and Age on Hedge...
Oct 12, 2010 | Hedge Fund Rankings
The Second Coming of George Soros? Global macro hedge funds are back. The strategy, by which funds take positions based on the big-animal-pictures view of global economics rather than firm- or sector-specific factors, made George Soros an incredibly rich man 18 years...
Sep 14, 2010 | Hedge Fund Rankings, Tools
Gordon Gecko was right about greed: It is good. Or at least it makes for a Wall Street movie sequel. Anxiety, on the other hand, is just boring. When investors are no longer feeling greedy but haven’t yet slipped into panic, things get tedious. The good news...
