In 1998, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it was planning to acquire reinsurance giant General Re for a total of $23.5 billion. Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Image used with... Read More

Five derivatives-clearing organizations, or central clearing counterparties, have passed a stress test conducted by the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission. The test was the first of its kind by... Read More

Bill Ackman is on the attack again. This time the activist hedge fund manager’s target is the couple of Kurt and Cindy O’Connell, independent business people operating out of... Read More

Several hedge fund managers presented their recent stock picks at the 13th annual Invest for Kids conference last week. Rebecca Pacholder of Snowcat Capital was one of the presenters,... Read More

This is part three of a ten part series on Ray Dalio (and part of our upcoming ebook on Dalio, which will include much information not available to the... Read More

Voters in Japan handed a big victory to the ruling party in parliamentary elections Sunday. It's a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious economic agenda, which... Read More

How Tough Are Investors Getting On Hedge Fund Fees by Convergence The debate around lowering hedge fund fees is nothing new and costs are often mentioned among the reasons for... Read More

Seth Klarman is virtually unknown outside value circles, despite his impressive record and value of assets under management. On average, Seth Klarman’s hedge fund Baupost has returned 19% p.a.... Read More

When the price of oil collapsed back in 2014, Russia was one of the major casualties and investors feared that the country might be heading toward economic collapse as... Read More

Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO) has recently made a gas discovery in the Iskrystall field in the Barents Sea. The field is operated by Statoil with a 50 percent share in... Read More