The latest project of Hyatt hotel heir Anthony Pritzker is a 49,300-square-foot building designed by an architecture firm in Paris. It involves a small army of specialized consultants and boasts amenities like a bowling alley, hairdressing ...
Hedge-fund performance perked up in January, although continued to lag the major stock indexes, according to industry adviser Hennessee Group.
When the German bank HSH Nordbank AG launched a tender offer this week for its hybrid securities, it was a pay off that had been a long time coming for a group of U.S. hedge funds.
Hedge funds' growing asset base and supposed ability to provide positive returns in all sorts of market conditions have proved a potent attraction to mutual-fund companies, particularly after the financial crisis in 2008. Morningstar cites ...
Last fall, as worries about Europe's banks mounted, Davide Serra fretted over the fate of Algebris Investments LLP, his $700 million hedge-fund firm.
Hedge-fund investors, rattled by lackluster performance, yanked more money from the industry than they added during the final months of 2011, data released Thursday showed.
Two former hedge-fund managers at Bear Stearns Cos. agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that would avert a civil trial over allegations related to a $1.6 billion blowup during the financial crisis.
The Federal Reserve policy of holding interest rates low to minimize the cost of federal profligacy is giving managers of pension funds a multi-billion-dollar headache. The return-on-investment targets of 7% to 8% that are structured into ...
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NEW YORK—Hedge-fund manager Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC's fourth-quarter net loss widened on lower incentive income, as most of the company's funds notched negative returns last year.
By Amy Or Much has been made about hedge funds' failure to keep up with the major stock market benchmarks this year. But 2011 is merely the latest disappointment in a string of misses that stretches back nine years, according to one analysis ...
Hedge funds investing based on big-picture, "macro" themes like Europe's debt crisis suffered one of their most gut-wrenching years in recent memory in 2011.
Many of the hedge-fund managers who came into 2011 riding a wave of momentum ended the year scratching their heads and nursing losses, whipsawed by markets that seemed to punish them month after month.
After three years of the hedge fund industry trailing stock markets, some investors are growing tired of sluggish returns, data released on Thursday by Hedge Fund Research Inc. suggests.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Hedge funds operate like secret societies. Except for the initiated few who entrust their fortunes to fund managers, information is difficult to access. But there are a few sources, albeit limited, that provide ...
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