Hedge-Fund Favorites Rose 23% In The Past Year

Image of an electronic wafer at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Museum of Innovation. Taiwan Semiconductor is one of five stocks favored by hedge funds that are featured in this article. Photo by I-Hwa CHENG / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesA bright young intern just left my firm to work for a New York hedge fund.That was bad news for me, but not unusual in the financial world. Hedge funds are magnets for talent, partly because in good years they can pay handsome bonus checks. Guruf ...