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The article discusses the hedge fund manager and investor David Einhorn, founder of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital, with information on the accuracy of his stock market predictions. Topics include the financial market reaction and the actions of money managers in response to a speech by Einhorn at the 2012 Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference; Einhorn's advice regarding investments in shares of the consumer electronics company Apple Inc.; and Einhorn's reputation as a short seller of securities whose value he predicts will decrease.

The article discusses a contest devised by Tim Harrington, Brian Tomeo, and Spencer Deering to determine which hedge funds they would invest in. The event they created, Battle-Fin, involves hedge-fund contestants being judged on how they handle real money in real time. Details are presented about the experiences of fund managers and contestants Alon Bochman, Martin Rosenburgh, and others.

The article offers information on the 20th annual Sohn Investment Conference which will be held on May 4, 2015.

The article discusses the performance of hedge funds since the 2008 global financial crisis. Topics include a discussion of the white paper titled "Hedge Funds: Problems Under the Hood" written by lawyer Gerald Kerner on way hedge fund contracts disadvantage investors; the stance of investor Warren Buffett and the California Public Employees' Retirement System pension fund on hedge funds; and economic trends likely to affect the future performance of such funds.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Look Sharp, Art Dealers: Steve Cohen Is at Basel Billionaire Steve Cohen is attending Art Basel, Switzerland's modern and contemporary extravaganza, Bloomberg News reported. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- More Hedge Funds Take Up the Activist Playbook One risk facing activism is that its popularity could become its undoing: The strategy could become as crowded as the hedge fund industry overall, with more funds chasing the same number of opportunities. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Baby Hedge Fund Managers Show Their Stuff Tickets cost $5,000 and come with the chance to hear elite investors like Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, and Paul Tudor Jones talk about their stock bets before regular investors hear them. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the success of hedge fund manager John Paulson in year 2013 as he has gained 55 percent in the hedge fund industry and 30 percent in its Advantage fund. As mentioned, the industry overall gained 7.1 percent in 2013. Various businessmen who were defeated by Paulson includes Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and David Einhorn.

The article offers information on the poor financial condition of hedge funds in the U.S. stock market. Most of the hedge funds have shown losses on the Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500-stock index. As per a survey conducted by the provider of global database, eVestment, investors are preferring to put their money in fixed-income and credit funds instead of hedge funds.

The article reports that Philip Falcone, chief executive officer of hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, has borrowed from lender Fortress Credit Corp., led by Peter Briger, a former partner at investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co. It informs that the credit is given against a seven-bedroom villa in Saint Barths. It states that Falcone is facing financial problems and his assets under management have fallen. It mentions that singer Michael Jackson was also a borrower of Fortress Credit.

Information about Apple Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting is presented wherein hedge fund manager David Einhorn won a 99.1 percent approval rating from investors on an early ballot. Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Inc. has reportedly been asking Apple to return $137.1 billion cash pile to shareholders. Apple shareholders are said to be supportive of the firm's executives, however they are displeased with its performance in the stock market.

The article focuses on the strategic approach of aspiring hedge fund managers Tim Harrington, Brian Tomeo, and Spencer Deering in the business of seeding hedge funds in Miami Beach, Florida. The hedge fund mangers sensed there was money in the nascent hedge fund scene in Miami and started their company Battle-Fin wherein they decided to run a tournament and make managers compete in real time with real money. Furthermore, the trial tournament proved that the mechanics of the concept worked.

The article focuses on the course of a day in the life of financial adviser Kevin Peters. It notes that Peters spent his day in the office at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Purchase, New York where he answered endless series of calls to clients with his five-member team who provides advise to some 350 families with combined assets of $2.7 billion. It states that the need for consistency makes points to what Peters actually does all day as a wealth manager.

The article discusses a report published by Hedge Fund Research Inc. on December 11, 2012, which states that around $31 billion has flowed into the hedge funds in 2012 and notes that the industry has more capital than ever. It notes that 824 funds have been launched and 635 have closed in 2012. It mentions a fall in management fees by the smallest of margins and the fall in incentive fees by 14 basis points to 18.62 percent.

The article reports that Tiger Global Management LLC, the 8 billion dollars hedge fund run by Chase Coleman and Feroz Dewan, looks for value in Groupon stocks and Bonds. It announced a 9.9 percent stake in Groupon on November 20, 2012. Tiger's aggressive move on Groupon came a month after Carl Icahn announced a similar-size position in Netflix.

The article focuses on the positive aspects of the U.S. Dodd-Frank act of 2010, which seemed to be a burden earlier. The law requires the hedge fund managers to supply data on trading positions along with the registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission affecting profits. But according to a survey done among people working for venture capital, real estate, hedge funds and private equity, the investors' rate of return has not been affected by it.

The article focuses on Paulson & Co. Inc. hedge funds worth 410 million dollars to be given to Citigroup Inc.'s private banking arm. The founder of the company John A. Paulson collected four billion dollars against the subprime mortgage bubble five years back. In 2011, his Advantage Plus fund lost more than half its value which worsened to 18 percent through the end of July 2012.