Monthly Archives: February 2017

(Reuters)New rules giving Chinese insurers greater access to Hong Kong stocks and a crackdown on risky products at home are pushing mainland funds into the former British colony, driving the benchmark Hang Seng index to five-month highs. Long-term capital from […]

(Bloomberg) Oasis Management Co.’s Seth Fischer increased his pressure on Panasonic Corp. to sweeten its offer for listed subsidiary PanaHome Corp., calling the transaction a test case of whether Japan’s corporate governance overhaul is working. Oasis will ask the courts […]

(Reuters) Chinese bicycle-sharing startup Mobike said on Monday it has raised funding in a new round led by Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings [TEM.UL] and hedge fund Hillhouse Capital, bringing its total new funding in 2017 to more than $300 […]

(New York Post) Fear of global economic contraction that could badly derail the US recovery — and throw a monkey wrench into the trading markets — is sweeping through Wall Street boardrooms, as managers intensify technology-driven cost-cutting and rein in […]

(HITC Business) The 7.48 trillion Norwegian krone ($903 billion) fund – the largest sovereign fund by assets under management – currently receives all of Norway’s oil and gas income and parliamentary approval would be required to ensure the changes are […]

(New York Times) In the annals of the immensely wealthy, the hedge fund manager is a relatively new entry. It has been only about a decade since significant numbers of hedge fund managers, including Kenneth C. Griffin of Citadel, Paul […]

(Yahoo) Despite a wobbly day on Friday, the markets again continued their melt-up last week, with all the indexes at one point hitting all-time highs yet again. With the fourth-quarter reporting season all but over, the windows for executives to […]

(Harvest) As analyzed in a Strategy Special , there are sources of risk, which have the potential to result in a slowdown of global growth and possibly a recession towards the end of this year or early 2018. A key […]

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(FINalternatives) Nearly three out of four investors attending the Context Summits gathering in Miami two weeks ago plan on increasing their allocations to alternative assets in the year ahead, according to a survey taken during the event. To read this […]

(FINalternatives) Hedge fund redemptions accelerated throughout 2016 despite the respectable 7.40% ultimately booked by the alternative asset class, according to recent data published by industry observer Preqin. To read this article: