Renewables investment falls as solar costs 'drop like mobile phones'
Growth of global renewable energy capacity is continuing its steady climb, a report has found, accounting for 44 per cent of newly added generating capacity in 2013, despite a 14 per cent drop in spe...
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Hedge Fund Compensation Rises As Hiring Trends Shift on Record Industry Assets
Compensation gains for Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers reflect increased investor visibility; Bonus structure, role evolution contributes to greater alignment of interest
CHICAGO, (October 31, 2013) - Hedge fund industry compensation rose for the 3rd consecutive year, as trends of increased investor visibility, organizational transparency, increased reporting requirements and role evolution accelerated on record industry assets. Average compensation rose between five and ten percent in 2013, with wide categorical and performance driven disparity, and with Portfolio Managers, Senior Analysts and Risk Managers at top performing funds seeing the highest relative increases, according the latest 2014 Glocap Hedge Fund Compensation Report, published today by Glocap and HFR.
Over the first three quarters of 2013, global hedge fund industry capital exceeded $2.51 trillion, the fifth consecutive quarterly asset level record, as the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gained +5.5 percent YTD. The percentage of all hedge funds which reached their high watermarks YTD through September also rose to 62 percent, a sharp increase from the 48.4 percent of funds which reached respective high watermarks in 2012.
Natural-gas futures market sees huge 20,000 contract sell order: Nanex - The Tell
A “monster” 20,000 contract sell order was placed on natural-gas futures Tuesday, according to Nanex Research....
High Five for Largest Hedge Fund Start-ups - MoneyBeat
Only 86 European offshore hedge funds launched in 2012, but those that did take off were bigger....
Ex-Sentinel Management Trader Pleads Guilty in Fraud
Former Sentinel Management Group Inc. portfolio manager Charles K. Mosley pleaded guilty to two counts of investment-adviser fraud before a federal judge in Chicago and faces as long as 10 years in pr...
A Recent Flourish for Winton Capital
The money manager well known for its quirky founder, a Cambridge University physicist, recovered from its worst performance since 2008 and posted a gain last month....
Investors turn their backs on robot hedge funds
Investors in the $330 billion computer-driven hedge fund sector are pulling out money for the first time since 2008, data showed on Wednesday, signaling the possible start of a bigger exit...
A Generational Low for Managed Futures
How bad is this Managed Futures Malaise that we’re talking rain dances and Wilson Philips songs? Pretty bad. The main CTA indices are all at 3.5 year lows and sitting on their worst drawdown levels in the past 15 years...
Yale beats Harvard on endowment returns
Yale University's endowment earned an investment return of 12.5% in its last fiscal year, surpassing the return rate of rival universities, including Harvard University...