As part of its plan to expand into private markets and insource more of its investment decisions, the New Hampshire Retirement System has appointed Danita Johnson as head of private markets. An NHRS ...

Dorsal Capital Management, run by former SAC Capital technology guru Ryan Frick, is the rare TMT firm that lets its investors sleep soundly at night no matter market conditions.At least when it comes ...

Replacing the founders of New York-based real estate manager Cohen & Steers was never going to be an easy task. When Martin Cohen and Robert Steers established the firm in 1986, they did so with the ...

Who said succession planning can’t work in the hedge fund industry? Just ask the folks at Renaissance Technologies, which has not missed a beat since its founder, Jim Simons, passed away last year.The ...

Every summer, Dave Iben takes his team at Kopernik Global Investors away from the sultry air of St. Petersburg, Florida. They’ve decamped to Belgrade, Budapest, Marrakesh, Tokyo, Lisbon, London, ...

It’s one of the oldest patterns in investing: a strategy stumbles, investors question whether it’s broken, they flee, and then it comes back to life. That’s what’s happening now with managed futures, ...

When Harlan Korenvaes founded HBK Capital Management in 1991, the multistrategy hedge fund firm was among the few, and the best, in the field. Within a decade, however, HBK lost its prominence as the ...

While most endowments and foundations are working to ensure they have ample liquidity, The Dietrich Foundation is taking the opposite approach. Roughly 90 percent of its $1.6 billion portfolio is ...

The big stakes legal action may be taking place in a court in lower Manhattan, where Raj Rajaratnam is on trial for trading with insider information. But, 800 miles away in an Illinois court, a former ...

A number of Tiger Cubs and other tech-focused hedge funds are enjoying strong years. But none of them comes close to the gargantuan gains generated by Flight Deck Capital.The tech-focused hedge fund ...

Bridgewater Associates is on a roll this year. Four of the macro hedge fund giant’s funds posted strong results in the third quarter as well as for the year so far. Through September 29, the firm’s ...

The SEC’s Enforcement Division is reportedly examining how private investments are valued, particularly in continuation funds. Its scrutiny of potential conflicts of interest and the adequacy of ...