Hedge funds are not dead, and they are most certainly not considered 'suckers' by their sophisticated and rich institutional investors. The new Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Investor Survey finds that 88% of the 185 polled investors intend to remain not only active with their hedge funds but also plan to increase their allocations in these funds in the second half of this year.
Legendary equity stock picker Bill Miller, former chairman and chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management, is moving to the dark side. The former portfolio manager of the... Read More
The Fed Can Control Inflation With Unconventional Tools The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) targeted a federal funds rate near zero from December 2008 through December 2015. Since September 2008,... Read More
Starvine Capital Corporation commentary for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. Get The Timeless Reading eBook in PDF Get the entire 10-part series on Timeless Reading in PDF. Save it... Read More
Berkshire Hathaway's Energy Investment Skills by AlphaBetaWorks Insights Should Investors Follow Buffet out of XOM Berkshire Hathaway’s year-end 2014 Form 13F showed the liquidation of the approximately $4 billion Exxon Mobil... Read More
If you're like most, the European Central Bank's (ECB) data release last week was of little to no importance. Simply another statistical survey from another government institution. The ECB's report,... Read More
Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital likes to use basketball analogies when writing his investor letters. As such, the manager of the $9 billion value hedge fund has started the... Read More
Hedge Funds Were Up 0.88% In April; Gaining 0.39% YTD by Eurekahedge Key highlights for April 2016: Hedge funds were up 0.88% in April. On a year-to-date basis, hedge funds... Read More
Bubble Investing: Learning From History William N. Goetzmann Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) January 11, 2016 Abstract: History is important to the... Read More
The average tax burden in OECD countries increased by 0.2 percentage points to 34.4% in 2014, marking 2014 as the highest ever recorded OECD average tax to GDP ratio... Read More
