When professional money managers and Wall Street brokers ... Gold might be the oldest and most universally accepted hedge against stock market crashes, inflation, currency devaluation, and general ...

Needless to say, these returns are far in excess of broad stock market ... in hedge funds. Farallon markets itself as an absolute returns investing shop, meaning that it will put money into ...

For Soroban Capital Partners founder Eric Mandelblatt, the future growth of stock-picking hedge funds won’t come from hedging ...

Hedge funds are making unprecedented multi-billion-dollar bets against the US stock market, signalling expectations of a devastating crash that could wreak havoc on retirement savings across America.

"The economy can turn bad, the stock market can crash, and they're not going to share losses." Sebastian Mallaby, the author of "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite ...

On Wall Street, what’s old is new again. “Portable alpha” is back, after years in the doldrums. The strategy combines index investing with active money-management. For example, a pension fund might ...

Hedge funds have bet billions ... meaning traders will make money when they fall in value, in a sign of growing concerns about the market. In January, investors have placed 10 times more bets ...

Blue chip stocks, thanks to their massive market capitalizations and ... pools of institutional capital. And since hedge funds are the putative smart money, who wouldn't want to know which blue ...

What matters is whether the net investor returns beat the market. If the money invested in the 20 hedge funds had instead been in index funds, the fees would likely have been around $15 billion ...