Hedge Funds

The Sohn's Investment Conference brings together some of Wall Street's most notable hedge fund titans in support of a good cause. The event has raised more than $75 million globally over 20 years to fight pediatric cancer and other childhood diseases. As part of the event, hedge fund titans...

Keith Meister, founder of Corvex Management, was interviewed by CNBC's David Faber at the 13D Monitor's 8th annual Active-Passive Investor Summit. Meister said he will be presenting a case-story on how an activist investor can collaborate with a company to achieve mutually desired outcomes...

Choosing hedge funds can appear to be a complicated process, one riddled with different elements that weigh unequally upon the individual's wants. Do people pick them based on returns? How important is the fund manager? What role does the investor want to play? How active of a role? Do they go for...

Hedge funds have come under pressure as many investors found themselves paying a hefty fee for results that underperformed the overall market. Hedge fund managers posted a mere 0.34-percent gain throughout March and a 2.29 percent return for the first quarter of 2017. By comparison, the MSCI AC...

Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson took the podium at the First Annual Stowe Conference for Charity and offered his expert wisdom, which combines his two professions: serving as a Greek Orthodox priest and hedge fund manager. While Lemelson did discuss some of his positions, including his short thesis on Domino...

Burdened by uncertainty in global and U.S. policy, hedge fund managers posted mere 0.34-percent gains in March for a first-quarter profit of 2.29 percent. At the same time, March's underlying markets gained 0.79 percent to contribute to a quarterly total of 5.06 percent, according to the MSCI AC...

President Trump's proposed border adjustment tax is intended to put American manufacturers and exporters on a more equal playing field with their international peers. But according to CNBC's Leslie Picker, hedge funds could also emerge a big winner under any new tax system. Picker explained...

Back in January, Benzinga published a series of articles where Don Steinbrugge, one of the top experts in the hedge fund industry, shared a preview of the top trends he expects to see among hedge funds in 2017. The specialist talked about the evolution in fees, the impact of the Trump...

“Money is not bad, money is a sign of energy. Where there is a lot of money, there is a lot of energy. The money for itself is only energy, we trade only energy. The people, what they are doing with that… That’s the important thing.” —Thomas Gütermann. Last...

Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Wednesday, and one of the topics of conversation focused on why he was selling Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last year at around the same time fellow billionaire Warren Buffett began accumulating the stock....

There are about 15,000 hedge funds out there, and both their fees and returns are very varied. But, what determines those factors? One of the most important elements in a hedge fund’s success is the manager. However, most people know only a few names in the space: Warren Buffett, Jim Simons,...

Quite often, our readers ask how to invest in hedge funds: “I don’t know the first thing about them. Other than Warren Buffett, who’s good? Are the fees worth it?” Looking for an answer to such a common query, Benzinga reached out to Don Steinbrugge, one of the top experts...

Don Steinbrugge is one of the best-known experts in the hedge fund industry, with over three decades of experience in the arena. He has been running Agecroft Partners, a global, award-winning hedge fund consulting and marketing firm for almost 10 years now. Prior to that, he worked at Andor Capital...