Hedge funds

It's counterintuitive, but basic short selling can boost the after-tax return on an entire retirement portfolio.

Under a commission proposal, funds’ financial statements would need to be audited at least annually.

The founder of Renaissance Technologies and his colleagues will pay billions to resolve one of the biggest tax disputes in U.S. history.

Three Democratic senators introduced legislation that would stop the tax breaks used by private equity money managers and others.

Bernard Madoff’s death in prison doesn’t change much for his victims, many of whom are still waiting to be made whole.

Thomas Sandell and Sandell Asset Management are paying $105 million to New York, the biggest fine of its kind in the state.

Three House Democrats are pushing legislation that would repeal the carried-interest tax break used by fund managers to reduce the levies they owe to the Internal Revenue Service.

Former investment banker Paul Mora is the first Cum-Ex suspect placed on Interpol’s public list of most-wanted suspects as Germany launched an international search for him in an escalation of its vast tax-evasion probe.

A second hedge-fund trader was named by Danish prosecutors as a defendant in a dividend tax scheme they say defrauded the Nordic country out of 9.6 billion kroner ($1.6 billion).

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.