Visium liquidating remaining funds

  Visium Asset Management is closing its four remaining funds – flagship Balanced Fund, Institutional Partners Fund, Equity Alpha Fund [Read More]
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WSJ: AllianceBernstein to buy Visium Global Fund

  Visium Asset Management has agreed to sell Visium Global Fund and transfer its management staff to AllianceBernstein, reports The [Read More]
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Hedge fund managers and their political donations

John Paulson of Paulson Partners, Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital, Stephen Feinberg of Cerberus Capital are among  the hosts at  [Read More]
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Sightings…

Greg Seidell has been promoted to chief compliance officer at Tiger Global Management. He replaces Neil Schwartz who has left [Read More]
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More funds closed than opened in Q1 – 291 vs 206

For the second consecutive quarter, the number of hedge funds closing exceeded the number of those launching. Hedge Fund Research [Read More]
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