Private equity proponents argue that one of the asset class’s biggest selling points is its low volatility compared with public equities. But Verdad Advisers founder Dan Rasmussen, a longtime critic ...

Renaissance Technologies is quietly enjoying its best year in recent memory. Although much attention has been paid to the firm’s crumbling asset base and the death of founder James Simons earlier this ...

Inflows into Japanese stocks and bonds surged this year, showing that measures taken by the government to improve the asset management industry are working as planned. The inflows also reflect capital ...

The BCOM index is a broad-based commodity index representing 24 agricultural, energy and metals products. The last 14 months ...

Following several quarters of consecutive positive returns, core private real estate could deliver long-term returns that could thrive even through the current volatility driven by war and policy ...

Tiger Cubs and their offspring enjoyed mixed success in March. But they still mostly managed to beat the S&P 500 in what wound up being a losing month for the index. What’s more, most of the felines ...

Element Capital Management once again turned sharply bearish on U.S. stocks. The macro hedge fund firm headed by Jeffrey Talpins liquidated most of its U.S. stock portfolio in the second quarter. It ...

With the stock market at exhilarating heights, any sign of weakness raises fears of another financial crisis. No wonder market prognosticators are asking: Could we soon face a repeat of 2008 or 2000?

Asset managers have embraced web scraping as a cornerstone of contemporary alpha generation, with the industry spending more than $2 billion annually to extract alternative data. Some estimate that ...

Carl Icahn’s private hedge fund once again started off the year deep in the red.The long-short portfolio reported an 8.2 percent loss in the first quarter, according to a filing from Icahn Enterprises ...

Things have been unexpectedly gloomy for private equity exits this year, despite earlier hopes for a resurgence in the first half. But there are signs of optimism creeping back in. The trillions of ...

Some portfolio managers barely have enough time to do their own jobs — let alone teach their analysts how to do theirs. “It seems crazy, but I get it. I’ve been there,” said Brett Caughran, who spent ...