While managers are doing well, are hedge funds all that? Yes and no. hedge fund portfolios have, traditionally actually performed well but this success can be substantially diluted due to service provider fees. It has been said that it is the hedge fund investors who suffer these fees ultimately. But we’re not convinced that’s true. … Continue Reading
In this CNVC video we see Kip McDaniel, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer at Institutional Investor discuss the firm’s annual list of the highest-earning hedge fund managers in 2017. The bottom of the ‘B’ team’s earner took home $60million. Continue Reading
In this video, Professor John C Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University, discusses his winning paper in the ECGI Law Series in 2017. It examines the “new world of hedge fund activism.” New agent –which aggregates the support of many institutional investors and brings pressure to bear on the board for issues… Continue Reading
It’s not often that business matters intersect so directly with ethical discussions, but activist hedge fund JANA Partners wrote a letter to Apple with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Caltstrs) earlier this year asking them to become more directly involved in efforts to protect children from the potentially harmful effects of technology and screen… Continue Reading
There has been a definite wave of optimistic records for hedge funds. In particular – according to a recent CNBC report – this has been the case for macro strategies. In the first month of the year they pulled in $6.87 billion. Long/short equity funds have likewise had a good time with $4.16 billion being… Continue Reading