Most of the new capital flowed to firms with more than $5 billion under management, according to HFR data. Trendy pod-shop funds were particularly popular. Hedge-fund assets surge to nearly $5 ...

Franklin Templeton is making a decisive push into hedge funds and alternative investments, growing its alternatives arm to $280 billion. Anchored by K2 Advisors, the firm is expanding globally through ...

In a year when sovereign wealth funds outpaced the growth of large global pension funds, Norway surpassed long-term frontrunner Japan as the largest holder of assets in the world for the first time.

The "Big Three" institutional investors—BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)—have burgeoned into load-bearing pillars of the U.S. economy. With great power comes great ...

Hello, PE Hubsters! Rafael Canton here with the US edition of the Wire from the New York newsroom. Let’s begin with private equity’s interest in the sport of golf. Leonard Green completed its ...

A new survey has found that almost half (46%) of asset owners are now holding cryptocurrencies – but some remain concerned about risk and volatility. The research, carried out by Northern Trust, found ...

The Donald Trump administration has opened new opportunities for traditional financial institutions to embrace digital assets. Among them is PwC, which is trying to "lean in" to cryptocurrency after ...