Hedge Funds
How Wall Street Is Devastating Our National Security
Even the Pentagon now realizes that Wall Street’s insatiable appetite for easy profits and love of monopoly has become a clear and present danger...
Barking Up the Right Tree: How Shareholder Activists Raise Issues to Placate Large Mutual Funds
A new paper examines whether shareholder activists tailor their campaigns to persuade large institutional investors and finds that in proxy communications, activists use phrases...
How Hedge Fund Performance Fees Fail Investors
In the hedge fund industry, there is a material disconnect between funds’ lifetime performance and lifetime incentive fees for managers. A new study analyzes...
“Short Sellers Don't Exist to Fix the Problems. They Exist to Shed Light on the Problems”
In an interview with ProMarket, Fahmi Quadir, the short seller whose bet against Valeant in 2015 helped expose the company's misdeeds, talks about short...
New Study Finds Evidence That Rents Might Be Higher in the U.S. than in Europe
A new paper by Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver from the Peterson Institute for International Economics explores the origins of the world’s billionaires, and...
