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Institutional Investor’s Stephen Taub. For the 20th year in a row, Taub has called upon his unrivaled knowledge of the ownership, fee structures, and closely held return figures for the world’s largest hedge funds. He also has a knack for hearing things others don’t. The output is the definitive list of what the titans of the trading floor earned during the pandemic year of 2020.  Will the $32 billion in earnings across the top 25 managers grate on those who watched tens of millions lose their jobs while global GDP cratered? Most certainly.  But when volatility increases and stock mar...

Credits: Photo: John Nikolai Caption: Isadore Singer is seen here with his Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, which, with Michael Atiyah, deeply and irrecoverably tied together the mathematical fields of analysis, geometry, and topology.  Credits: Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum Caption: Isadore Singer as a young man Previous image Next image Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore M. Singer, an enormously influential figure in 20th-century science whose work united...

Hedge funds have had to cut their losses after a group of amateur traders came together to push up shares in GameStop.

Submitted By Joel Press (pictured), Press Management – It’s a new year and for some, a time to explore new options. Earlier this month, James Simons, the legendary founder and chairman of Renaissance Technologies LLC, announced he was stepping down from the firm and passing on the baton to Peter Brown, who has served as CEO since 2017.  Arriving at the right time to step back as the founder of any hedge fund is never easy, and when it comes to thinking about succession planning, there is no right or wrong answer or approach. It is a personal decision, and depends on what is right for th...

Opalesque Roundup: More hedge funds report market beating returns in 2020: hedge fund news, week 03 In the week ending January 15th 2021, a lot happened at Renaissance Technologies as its famed Medallion fund, available only to current and former partners, had one of its best years ever, surging 76 percent, according to one of its investors. But other funds that are available to outside investors didn't fare that well, two of them had their worst years ever. James Simons is stepping down as chairman at Renaissance but will remain on the board of the $60 billion hedge fund he founded nearly 4...