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Eight years have passed since the FBI’s insider trading investigation into Galleon Group, but the subject remains a concern in the minds of alternative investment industry participants, according to a new survey by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable. Insider trading was the topic of NYHFR’s August event, entitled From Trader to Whistleblower: How Tom…

Leon Cooperman is still smarting from his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “They are — I don’t want to say a criminal enterprise — but they basically abuse their position and they’re very wrong-footed in what they do,” Cooperman said Wednesday at a breakfast hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable. Read…

Bill Ackman’s proxy battle against Automatic Data Processing is “disgraceful” — and it’s going to be a disaster, according to hedge-fund tycoon Leon Cooperman. “He’s going to lose, he’s not even going to be close and he’s going to further tarnish his reputation,” Cooperman of Omega Advisors told The Post Wednesday morning. Read More

The deeply divided political landscape has focused the attention of alternative asset managers on whether sweeping reforms in such things as healthcare, taxes, carried interest, and the regulatory environment will actually take place, according to a new survey by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable. Read More

Quantitative investing has been experiencing a resurgence of interest among investors in alternative investments -fueled by big data, ever-more sophisticated algorithms and increasingly efficient technologies. Given investors’ interest in quantitative investment funds, the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable recently looked at how the alternative investment community views the strategy compared to the way it looks…

Sustainability is steadily moving from a niche issue to being front and center in the minds of global alternative investors, according to a new survey by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.  Read More

The New York Hedge Found Roundtable, made up of professional investors who generally focus on “alternative investments,” the other day said its members believe investing in cannabis companies is “appealing.” The normal alternative investments one thinks of, derivative securities, hedge and private equity funds and managed futures, tend to be reserved for rich people, institutions…

The alternative investment community is a fan of marijuana, at least from an investment perspective, along with art, jewels, wine, sports teams and other “alternative” opportunities, according to a new survey by the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable. Read More

Risk management software specialist Ferential Systems has become the newest sponsor of The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable (NYHFR). Read More