Hedge funds turned in one of their strongest first-half performances in nearly three decades, according to exclusive data from PivotalPath, with technology specialists leading gains and multi-strategy ...

Special purpose acquisition company mergers are becoming an increasingly important path for monetizing private investments. This is especially important to hedge funds and other venture capital ...

MSCI bought a minority stake of Burgiss Group in 2020. Now, it’s buying the remaining 66 percent of the private markets data company for $697 million in cash — a price Morningstar says was expensive ...

Early last year, Alex Virolle, a Paris-based managing director at Goldman Sachs, had to make an unwelcome call to one of his superiors in New York. A talented banker who reported to him was quitting.

A year before Carson Block launched Muddy Waters Capital, his hedge-fund firm, he started trying to line up a prime broker — an investment bank that could lend him stocks so he could then sell them ...

For the better part of the past decade, Michael Green has been on a mission. From talking to money managers to making the rounds of hedge fund idea dinners to attending conferences geared to everyone ...

Traditional and alternative asset management are becoming less black and white as more insurers and high-net-worth investors seek integrated, total portfolio solutions that blend public and private ...

Asset managers aren’t investing as aggressively in artificial intelligence as the hype might suggest. Despite the talk surrounding AI’s ubiquity and inevitability, new research from the Thinking Ahead ...

One of Institutional Investor’s allocator rising stars is ascending quickly. Sohel Hussain, head of investments at Meyer Memorial Trust, is leaving the trust to launch his own non-discretionary ...

In a massive win for its outsourced chief investment officer unit, Goldman Sachs is lifting out UPS’s $43.4 billion pension portfolio — and the team that manages it. On Thursday the asset management ...

Anton Orlich has been promoted to deputy chief investment officer for private markets for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the $621 billion pension plan announced. Orlich confirmed ...

On the back of soaring energy prices, fears are rising that the global economy could be heading in a stagflationary direction – one where economic growth is weak and inflation high. On average, this ...