Industry PulseHedge Fund Industry Pulse Check(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) I was on the phone yesterday with a hedge fund investor who said he simply could not keep up with all of the news coming out on hedge funds without spending his whole work day tracking it. He wanted to know what to receive a series of updates within a single post.Here is a collection of quotes on the current state of the hedge fund industry:- Hedge-fund manager David Tepper entered the third quarter with $3.1 billion of U.S. stocks and exited with $648 million, selling most holdings to reduce risk and raise cash as carnage spread across the financial markets. “We moved a lot out early because we didn’t want to lose money,” said Tepper, 51, president of Appaloosa Management LP in Chatham, New Jersey. The firm, which switched some money ...

Renaissance TechnologiesRenaissance Technologies - Hedge Fund ProfileHere is a collection of links to resources and articles on the hedge fund - Renaissance Technologies. All of these sources below are publicly available and can be easily found by anyone via Google searches. They are listed here for those who would like to skip the junk and learn more about Renaissance Technologies more efficiently than they might through Google alone.Letter from Renaissance Technologies how Renaissance Technologies had only 1 percent profit in 2007.Article summary how Renaissance Technologies has high fees, but had generated 85 percent returns.Article: Jim Simmons Institutional Equities Fund has been down $13 billion dollars.SEC may put a new law against ...