According to a recent interview, Corsair Capital's founder Jay Petschek did not plan to be a hedge fund manager. After holding various roles on Wall Street, Petschek decided to launch... Read More

Société Générale publishes a monthly update on the performance of several value orientated fundamental trading strategies across both developed and emerging markets. Last week I covered the bank’s top... Read More

One component of the forthcoming ESMA MiFID II regulations that hasn’t received the headlines that the impact on research has received is the mandate to record “electronic communication.” Like... Read More

Wunderlich Securities is not a big fan of one of Seth Klarman’s biggest winning stock trades: ViaSat, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT). The brokerage firm lowered it’s rating to sell and issued... Read More

The Passport Special Opportunities fund is currently the fourth best performing hedge fund this year, according to HSBC's Hedge Weekly. To the end of October, Passport Special Opportunities was up 21.53%... Read More

The Small Cap Investing Handbook Part Nine: 5 Rules For Small Caps. This is part nine of a ten-part series on small-cap investing. Throughout this series, I’m looking at both... Read More

The market has been heading up, up and away for so long that many investors may not remember (or even experienced in some cases) what it was like to... Read More

We live in a new financial world order that is, at times, positive and sometimes less than positive, particularly when it comes to criminal activity. This can be seen... Read More

List Of Dividend Aristocrats From 1989 To 2014 by Sure Dividend The image below shows what corporations are included in the Dividend Aristocrat index year by year since 1989.  The... Read More

Hedge fund performance this year varies significantly. At the one end of the scale, Saba Capital's offshore fund is leading the gainers. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more According... Read More