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The Top 10 Hedge Funds to Watch in 2013

An Industry in Flux

Big changes are coming to the U.S. hedge fund industry in 2012. Thanks to Dodd-Frank, funds will have to meet expensive and unprecedented disclosure and reporting standards. And there's new competition: The Volcker Rule is spurring bank proprietary traders to hang out their own hedge fund shingles. But there's also new opportunity. A recently enacted clause of the JOBS Act allows hedge funds to advertise their wares. Here are 10 hedge funds whose management and track records suggest that they're equipped to navigate 2013's uncertain terrain.

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The New World of Nicolas Berggruen

He arrived in the United States as a teenager and grew up to make billions. Now he’s giving away his money to rebuild America—and the world.

Come Buy With Me

Promising lower costs and better results, three new investment websites want your money. Is this gamble worth taking?

Darwin’s Game

Financial advisors aren’t above playing hardball to discredit the competition and win clients. Here’s how we do it.

Q and A: Bill Harris

A tech entrepreneur with an impressive track record turns his attention to wealth management—and proposes some big changes.

Republican Dollars and Sense

By Karen Hube

From taxes to markets, the new Congress will affect your investments. The question is, how? Worth presents eight sectors where a newly powerful GOP could make nice with your money.

10 Most Expensive Art Sales of 2010

The top-end of the art market rebounded last year, as billionaires from Asia, Russia and the Middle East competed with established U.S. and European buyers for the few choice works up for grabs. The 2010 list of highest-priced art sales reflects the current taste for large-scale, expressive, modernist works by art world stalwarts. Only one postwar artist—Andy Warhol—made the list, but two Chinese artworks found their way into the top five, a clear sign of future interest. In another shift, half of the works were sold outside the U.S., indicating the rapid growth of global wealth and buying habits. (Artnet, a pricing database, Sotheby’s and Christie’s helped compile the data below.)