Hedge fund managers pocket nearly half of investment gains

Half of investors want to spend more on hedge funds, says BofA survey
Half of the global investors surveyed by Bank of America's prime brokerage department plan to allocate more money to hedge funds this year, while 37% wanted no change. The results represented a 2% uptick in those wanting to spend more on hedge funds from the start of 2024,
Talpins’ Hedge Fund Returns $6 Billion to Mostly Manage His Cash
Jeff Talpins’ macro trading hedge fund Element Capital Management returned more than $6 billion last year, shrinking its asset base and stepping closer to managing mostly internal money.
Hedge fund managers pocket nearly half of investment gains as fees
Managers generated $3.7tn of total gains before fees, but fees charged to investors were $1.8tn, or about 49 per cent of gross gains, according to the analysis by LCH Investments, an investor in hedge funds.
Hedge funds have charged almost $2 trillion in fees since 1969, says LCH
Hedge funds have charged their investors $1.8 trillion in fees from 1969 to the end of December 2024, according to data from hedge fund investor LCH Investments on Monday. Over the past 55 years, hedge funds have kept roughly half of the money they make from trading profits,
Hedge-Fund Fees Eat Up Half of Clients’ Profits
Investors in hedge funds often gripe about high fees. A new report puts the problem in sharp relief.
Citadel, D.E. Shaw And The World’s Top 20 Hedge Funds Gained A Record $94 Billion In 2024
The world’s largest hedge funds sustained their consistent track records in 2024, though most would have underperformed an investment in an S&P 500 index fund.
Hedge fund industry reaches $4.5 trillion in 2024
The hedge fund industry ended 2024 with $4.51 trillion in assets under management, a 9.75% increase from the previous year, ...
Steve Cohen's top fundraiser is leaving his $37 billion hedge fund Point72
Laura Sterner, who helped raise billions for the firm's 2018 relaunch, had worked with Steve Cohen for close to a decade.
Hedge funds bet big on Trump’s second term
U.S. stock-trading hedge funds kicked off the week with gross leverage levels in their highest range since 2010.
Global equity funds gain inflows on Fed rate cut hopes, Trump's AI plans
Global equity funds gained a fourth weekly inflow in five weeks in the week through Jan. 22 spurred by optimism for U.S.
Hedge Fund Clients Pulled $7 Billion From Elite Money Manager Since 2021
Clients of Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group pulled roughly $7 billion from the hedge fund in the past three years, losing ...
Why a top hedge fund investor says markets under Trump could be more complicated than traders are hoping
Markets hope that Trump's pro-business agenda can unlock more stock gains, but Stanley Druckenmiller says it might be more ...