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Institutions continue to pour into hedge funds

Institutional investors continue to embrace hedge funds, hunting for outsized returns. According to a survey by Preqin, notes FINalternatives , 30 percent of responding institutional investors will definitely boost their allocations to hedge funds over the next three years, while 60 perce

John Meriwether starts a new hedge fund

John Meriwether has become something of a serial hedge fund start-up artist. He's best known for Long-Term Capital Management, which racked up huge gains in 1994-1998, until Russia defaulted on its bonds, in which LTCM was heavily invested. The Federal Reserve ended up bailing the fund out. Me

Return of the hedge fund swashbucklers?

In the golden era of macro hedge funds, names like Soros, Robertson, Bacon and Kavner inspired awe. People still talk of Soros as the man who nearly broke the Bank of England. Quietly, these funds are coming back into favor, as so many other hedge funds tank. Global macro funds actually gained