Eric Mindich's $13 billion Eton Park Capital Management LP led hedge funds in raising gold investments last quarter, joining billionaire John Paulson's bet that bullion will increase amid inflation concerns.
I've had a lot of high perspiration “Right Guard” moments in my life, although I futilely try to live by Gillette's 1984 advertisement of “never let 'em see you sweat.”
Josh Kernan, who oversees sales of alternative investments to investment advisers and their clients at Charles Schwab Corp., is leaving the company after 16 years to start a new firm.
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. should consider “full nationalization” of the mortgage- finance system.
Pimco's Bill Gross said the U.S. government should offer to refinance mortgages for homeowners as a way to stimulate the struggling economy.
Investors should purchase Hershey Co. options because their prices don't reflect the high probability that Nestle SA will bid for the candymaker, according to Capstone Global Markets LLC said.
A prominent Brooklyn rabbi has been convicted in a scheme to extort a Connecticut-based hedge fund into paying millions of dollars to two schools.
A former Bend police captain and his wife who have been under investigation by the FBI and IRS over their real estate dealings in Oregon and Indiana have been indicted on fraud charges.
Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.
Why hedge fund portfolios are defined to a far greater extent by the simple avoidance of a series of classic mistakes.
The hedge fund industry saw investment returns decline by 1.4% in June. That's hardly a banner month, but the hedgies still managed to outperform the broad equity markets, which fell by 5.4% in June.
Managers of private investment partnerships usually get paid both a base management fee and a performance fee. Many times, the performance fee isn't paid in cash, but is instead paid to the manager as an allocation of profits.
Music played on rare violins, violas and cellos brings joy to audiophiles and may also soon bring happiness to the wallets of investors.
Volatility has created new opportunities to invest in risk assets “because they've gotten so cheap.”
New York-based Optima Fund Management, a $6 billion fund of hedge funds, thinks farming is a growing business.
Drawn by tales of fast money in the land of iron condors, retail traders are swarming the futures market. But do they know what they're doing?
Understanding how to use options as a risk-management tool and as a generator of additional income can't hurt.
