Did you hear? The credit crisis is officially over — at least according to the handful of hedge fund managers who have shut down their “credit crisis funds” over the past few weeks.
The hedge fund industry may be roundly celebrating 2009 as a comeback—19% returns are always exciting—but it was still a tough year to get into the business, according to a survey just released by Absolute Return + Alpha magazine.
The Managed Funds Association has formed an alliance with the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association as part of its efforts to unite with regional hedge fund associations.
The Managed Funds Association is jumping into the data collection business with an effort to build the most comprehensive hedge fund industry database available.
A ranking of the world's largest hedge fund managers sharply illustrates the ravages the financial crisis wreaked on firms in the past two years
Retail funds, pensions, endowments and other investors will face higher costs and lower returns if regulations requiring public disclosure of short sales are adopted, according to a study published today by the Managed Funds Association.
Energy Investors Funds says it is fully cooperating with authorities investigating the fatal explosion of the Kleen Energy Plant in Middletown.
Venture capital today is survival of the pluckiest.
The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, released today, shows a mixed picture: Some metro markets are improving, others are still searching for a bottom, and prices are down an average 0.2% in November across 20 metropolitan markets.
In another sign that the commercial property market may have bottomed out, the Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index showed a 1% gain in November.
Hedge funds are losing talent to university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and even to the Securities and Exchange Commission, of all places, according to a survey released this week by executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.
Hedge fund industry performance in 2009 was the best in a decade, according to Hedge Fund Research. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index returned 20.04% for the year ended Dec. 31, the industry's highest since the 31.29% return of the index in 1999.
Investment manager BlackRock said Tuesday that it bought Helix Financial Group LLC, a commercial real estate advisory firm, for an undisclosed amount.
A billionaire hedge fund manager charged in a $25 million insider trading case now faces a lawsuit saying he helped finance Sri Lankan militants notorious for suicide bombings.
Real estate money managers are joining private-equity firms in the line to buy failed banks.
After a long hibernation, the lords of leveraged buyouts are up and about.
Whether it is to help lock in last year's gains or to put to better use some of the more than $3 trillion parked in money market funds, the creative use of options may be just the tool that finanical advisers need.
Many real estate funds sold to institutional investors are charging too much, according to consultant Towers Watson & Co.
