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Data and markets are two increasingly important geo-strategic variables that will make up the MIFD Complex as America and China's rivalry grows.

Elliott Advisors supports GSK's plans to split into two companies and has made five recommendations. One is that a refreshed board do an internal and external search for the CEO of New GSK. Many are interpreting this as an attack on CEO Emma Walmsley. It is not. It is just good corporate governance.

Record M&A levels during the first five months of the year helped drive outperformance among event-driven hedge funds.

Fierce private equity competitors Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners are both set to win from the $6.6 billion buyout of Stamps.com.

Superforecasting harnesses the wisdom of wise crowds. It has predicted everything from election results to market moves. We believe it has huge implications for the financial services industry.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made $5 million selling Alphabet holdings this June, as Big Tech got scrutiny in Washington. Here's why it wasn't insider trading.

Independence Day is here but the crisis in American democracy is also pressing - this may eventually provoke a crisis of leadership.

Robinhood has filed for an IPO amid its mixture of surging growth and deep problems with customers and regulators. As part of the IPO, cofounders Vlad Tenev and Baidu Bhatt stand to make billions in incentive awards, Forbes has found.

There's been plenty of news headlines indicating that hedge fund performance has weakened over the last 10 to 15 years, but now a new study takes those headlines beyond anecdote.

In his May letter to investors, Odey Portfolio Manager Adrian Courtenay said they had been gradually repositioning the portfolio to better align with inflation and sensitivities to government bond yields.

Its been last October since we last had a market correction and sentiment now looks very complacent. Time for investors to dial back risk.

The number of new trends and technologies that mark the post COVID future are mind boggling, but corporates need to make sense of them and work to understand new ecosystems, institutions ans regulations.

Forbes releases its fourth annual ranking of the Best-In-State banks and credit unions, in partnership with market research firm Statista.

Self-described as “Wall Street’s Gossip Girl,” Wall Street Confessions is the brainchild of Riya Sharma, a 22-year-old recent college dropout from New Jersey who works in financial media and is the daughter of Indian immigrants.

The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 0.87% in May, roughly in line with the return in the broader equity market as measured by the MSCI ACWI (local)'s 0.83% return.

The activist hedge fund that took on Exxon and won has created a low-cost index fund to hold corporate America accountable for climate change.

Financial institutions lost billions when Reddit traders pumped money into stocks they had bet against.

Blend Labs co-founder Nima Ghamsari stands to make $10.9 billion over ten-years as part of an incentive package that resembles Elon Musk's at Tesla.

The 23.8% rate may go to 43.4%, an 82% increase. Add state taxes and you may be well over 50%. Can you sell quickly before the new law takes effect? As proposed, the rate hike is already in effect for sales after April 28, 2021.

Whatever it is, ethical investing is not new. The prior boom for so-called “cleantech” stocks in the mid-2000s ended in a bust with countless investors losing massive amounts of money a few years later. Today’s ethical investors should ask themselves what they can learn to avoid a similar fate...