HEDGE

John Hussman wrote an interesting note this week called Taking Distortion at Face Value. Although Hussman is traditionally bearish, he makes some critical arguments that are hard [...]

Pension funds traditionally offer a guaranteed income for life upon retirement in return for years of loyal service. Many of us are not fortunate enough [...]

Did the bubble just pop? Chart via Markets.Blockchain.info UPDATE: Market has slightly recovered, last trade at $168.253   [Photo: poopoorama/Flickr]

Barron’s holds an annual roundtable with leading industry professionals to discuss their top investment picks and outlook on the coming year. Part I and Part II were [...]

REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trust and is generally a large fund comprised of real estate holdings.  They typically start out as private partnerships [...]

In a Bloomberg exclusive, the Oracle of Omaha guaranteed that banks free of excess liabilities have hoarded enough reserve capital to protect against any similarly future crisis. Granted, Buffett [...]

In the past year, there have been 5 or more robberies of Apple stores and Best Buy stores, particularly targeting iPhone 5s, iPads, iPad Minis, [...]

Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has made it his crusade to let the world know about what he believes to [...]

Bloomberg Markets Magazine just released a report of the top funds categorized by success and profit, in addition to the top strategies of 2012. The most successful was [...]

This Killer Graphic from PerTrac Shows the History of Hedge Funds

Heres what it takes to become the Biggest hedge fund in the world.  Above is the performance of Bridgewaters’ Pure Alpha Fund showing why they [...]

Julian Robertson on Bloomberg explains why Hedge Funds are under performing.  Hint, They are scared shitless.  

A Hedge Funder Explains How He went From Trader to Farmer

The $31 Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Och-Ziff Capital Management is preparing to exit the foreclosed homes business. The fund Manager Daniel Och recently told his [...]

In 2010 The Frank Dodd bill was enacted that required hedge funds and private equity funds to register with the SEC. The purpose of the registration was to gets some idea of the size and scope of the industry.

APM marketplace explains the ins and outs of hedge funds in this 10 minute video.

The Libor scandal that has recently come out is certain to affect the finance industry for many years to come. Repercussions from fixing an industry [...]