Hedge Funds
Researcher and consultancy Wealth-X and WSJ. Custom Studios, part of The Wall Street Journal Advertising Department, have partnered to tell the story of the “gaming of the American Dream.” The article, “Gaming the American Dream,” charts the rise of the U.S. hedge fund billionaire, from “Fortune” magazine associate editor Alfred Winslow Jones’ decision in 1949 to pool investors’ private money and bet on stocks to drop and fall to the $3 trillion value reached by hedge funds in the third quarter of 2015 that occurred in the spotlight amidst insider-trading cases. Although the feature serves as an advertisement for the upcoming...