Editas Medicine Inc (EDIT) - 2016 Finally Sees First U.S. IPO VC-backed IPO activity in the U.S. is expected to stay low in 2016. The markets are volatile, oil prices are... Read More

After two bumper years, pay in the hedge fund industry is rising. Some of the biggest names in the industry have paid themselves considerable salaries after racking up large... Read More

6 principles of persuasion 1) Reciprocity We feel obligated to return favours to people who have done favours for us in the past. 2) Scarcity We value scarce information... Read More

China’s losses have been one hedge fund’s gain – big time. Get The Full Warren Buffett Series in PDF Get the entire 10-part series on Warren Buffett in PDF. Save it... Read More

The latest 13F filing for Q4 from Chou Associates, which is run by Francis Chou, shows that between Q3 and Q4, assets under management have fallen from $548.25M to... Read More

Hedge fund performance... What is perhaps most obvious about Bloomberg’s list of top performing hedge funds is the lack of long-only performers on the list. But more specifically, the... Read More

The global energy sector is shifting more resources to North America, both to take advantage of shale reserves and to reduce some of the political risk the sector faces... Read More

Shinzo Abe's gamble paid off. Earlier this week the Japanese premier 's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition secured a two-thirds parliamentary “super majority” reinforcing his position at the head of... Read More

Throughout this ten-part series, I’m looking at the life and times of Carl Icahn, how he started on Wall Street, his most famous and infamous trades, his transition from... Read More

Hedge funds that trade commodities had a mixed first quarter with returns on both sides of the spectrum. One of the best performers so far has been Merchant Commodity Fund... Read More