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Comac Capital paid its founder more than €40 million last year, the overwhelming majority of its total payout to partners.

The victim of a robbery last week, hedge fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach is taking his story to the press.

It's good to be a successful alternative investments manager, as demonstrated by the generous sprinkling of their names in this year's Forbes 400 ranking of the richest Americans. But it may be even better to be a retired (or semi-retired) alternative investments manager.

The top two hedge-fund names on Forbes' annual list have both stopped managing outside money. The recently remarried George Soros and Carl Icahn are the richest of the lot, and both returned investor capital last year.

The controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney threatening to roil the race for the White House was taken at the home of a prominent hedge fund and private equity manager.

The latest hedge fund honcho to get into the business of sports-team ownership is none other than George Soros.

A private equity chief is one of the first two women to ever be admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club.

Darla Moore was invited to join the prestigious Georgia club, which had until now an exclusively-male membership—and controversially since the National Council of Women's Organizations began protesting the lack of women in green jackets.

Hedge fund managers are continuing to back Mitt Romney's bid to oust President Barack Obama in a big way.

Baupost Group may be having a mediocre year, but founder Seth Klarman is having an extraordinary summer at the racetrack.

Hedge fund legend George Soros and his 40-year-old fiancée, Tamiko Bolton, announced their engagement on Saturday, at Soros' 82nd birthday party at his home in Southampton, N.Y. The couple, who met in 2008 but who did not appear in public together until May, were engaged a few weeks ago, also in the Hamptons.

D.E. Shaw Group founder David Shaw is building a new home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., a tony village about 10 miles north of Manhattan. In fact, he's been building it for about a year—and planning it for much longer—but he still won't get to move in for as much as another year.