"Hedge fund": The phrase evokes images of pirates in designer suits … of backroom deals over cigars and single malt … of Gordon Gekko's iconic line from the 1987 movie Wall Street: "Greed is good." ...

A hedge fund is a pool of money from many investors that is actively invested in a broad range of assets. The hedge fund manager is given wide latitude in deploying money and may use risky strategies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leading writer and speaker in the area of trader tax benefits. Hedge fund and private equity managers increasingly rely on limited ...

Starting in the hedge fund industry often starts after college. But, from there there is a long way to the top. A lot of educational and professional improvements must come before reaching the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jacob Wolinsky covers hedge funds and emerging managers. Oct 23, 2025, 11:15pm EDT Oct 24, 2025, 11:01am EDT When most hedge fund ...

It should be a good time to work for the biggest hedge funds in the world. Firms like Millennium, Citadel, Point72, and Balyasny are experiencing rapid growth and offering eye-popping pay packages, ...

Dara-Abasi Ita writes about trading and investing for Investopedia and Investing.com, and he is an editor at Lawverse magazine. He has written about financial topics, including private equity, asset ...

While hedge funds work through complex structures, commodities provide a far more literal form of investment, exposure to the physical inputs that power economies. They include energy resources such ...

Hedge funds usually like to take advantage of stock-market unrest. Lately, they have helped spread it instead. Drastic shifts in the global security environment have sparked a sector rally. A pair of ...

Ask hedge fund manager Dmitry Balyasny what keeps him up at night, and the answer isn’t a long list of worries about fund concentration, market contagion, monetary policy, or geopolitics. It’s one ...

A British billionaire emphasized the importance of an applicant's personality to work at his hedge fund. Chris Hohn values employees motivated by more than money. The hedge fund's small team ...