Hedge-fund investors often gripe about high fees. A new report puts the problem in sharp relief. Just over half of the industry’s total gross performance was eaten away by fees over the past two ...

Hedge funds: compensation scheme or asset class? A hedge fund is a “compensation scheme masquerading as an asset class” — or so the saying goes. A new analysis by LCH Investments ...

Prime brokers provide a variety of critical services to hedge funds, including the provision of leverage and helping raise capital to fund their launch and expansion. Moreover, as markets grow and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. International hedge funds and private equity groups are pumping money into a tax-exempt Lloyd’s of London ...

Hedge funds returned 8.5% in 2017, 5.5% in 2016, -0.4% in 2015, 1.4% in 2014, 11.1% in 2013, and 4.8% in 2012. These are embarrassingly low compared to the S&P 500 ETF (SPY)’s 21.7% gain in 2017 ...

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As such, 2025 may well turn out to be another vintage year for the hedge-fund sector. According to hedge-fund research firm PivotalPath, hedge funds in 2024 averaged returns of 10.7 percent for the ...

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Its tilt toward more growth-oriented equity funds gives younger shareholders more exposure to economic expansions and retractions than the overall allocation to stocks might suggest. For example ...

skynesher / Getty Images What a trust fund earns and distributes is taxed, just like earned income and capital gains from the sale of stocks and property. Read on to learn how trust funds are ...

The managers typically steer clear of speculative fare, commodity-oriented businesses borrowing to fund growth, and turnaround plays. At the start of 2021, the managers updated the strategy’s ...

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