Bridgewater Associates' Ray Dalio: How To Have Productive Meetings
"I learned to pause and review the ground rules," Dalio says. :
Everyone knows what it's like to suffer through a long, pointless meeting at work, one where you restlessly count the minutes until you can go back to your desk and actually get something done. For Ray Dalio, a billionaire investor who founded Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, lousy meetings are unacceptable.
Hedgewire 22/06/18 Newsletter
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Global Manager Hires Former Wallaby, Launches Unit Trust
A former Australian rugby union centre is joining a UK-based equities manager as its managing director for Australia. The firm is also launching an Aussie-based global equities unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund.
Hedge Fund Management Fees Fall To Record Low
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How Tech Firms Assist Fund Raising | Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association
A insightful article from hedgeweek. Read the original here Technology is becoming an important factor when hedge fund managers present their investment strategy to prospective investors. The more agile and sophisticated the technology infrastructure, the more appealing the manager will likely appear. And whereas in times past it would have been too much of a capital expenditure to spend big on IT and keep pace with larger hedge fund shops, technology firms like Eze Software are helping to level the playing field.
Hedge Funds Worry About The Legal Risks Of Using "alternative" Data - Wary Scouts
"QUANT" (quantitative) hedge funds, which craft elaborate algorithms to make trading decisions, rely on access to information. That used to mean market data, such as prices and trading volume. But some now seek an edge in novel sources. An industry has sprung up to serve them with, and help them analyse, "alternative" data, such as those gleaned from satellite images or by scraping websites. Many of these data firms have been founded by entrepreneurs, but some quant funds themselves are getting involved. Winton, a large London-based fund, is spinning off Hivemind, a data-analysis unit.
Hedgewire Europe-only 21/06/18 Newsletter
Voting for the for the 2018 edition of the annual Hedgeweek USA Awards is now open. These prestigious awards recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers in the USA. Where will institutional investors be focusing their alternative asset allocations over the next 12 months? What are the top-line issues they have when assessing managers, and how are their expectations changing?
The Death And Life Of A Hedge Fund Mansion
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Hedge Fund Launches And Liquidations Decline As Funds Focus On Trade And M&a;
Hedge fund launches exceeded liquidations in Q1 2018 for the third consecutive quarter, as both launches and liquidations fell through early 2018, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR. An estimated 158 funds launched in Q1 2018, down from 190 in Q4 2017, the lowest quarterly new launch total since 153 funds were started in Q4 2016.
Hedge Fund Tourbillon Hires Berman As President
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund Tourbillon Capital Partners, which has made headlines with negative returns lately, hired former hedge fund manager Ross Berman as its president and chief strategy officer, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The New York-based firm is run by Jason Karp, who previously worked for Carlson Capital and Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital before founding his own firm in 2012. Berman twice ran his own hedge fund and has spent time consulting in the $3 trillion industry over the last two years.