Monthly Archives: February 2017
Estimate Revisions Weak Once Again – the Pattern Continues
(Harvest) Open or double-click on the above spreadsheet. Now here is this post from January 8th, 2017 this year. This pattern of negative revisions continues to persist in the first quarter of the past few years, despite the fact that […]
Emerging Markets – Bonds Beat Equities Which Beat Commodities – Will This Continue?
(Harvest) Emerging markets have been a tough place to invest especially in equities during the post Financial Crisis period. We include a stock index (EEM), and bond index (EMB) and a commodity index (DJP) for some simple comparisons of three […]
Trendless Markets as we move into February
(Harvest) Our sector indicators have all pointed to more trendless behavior for the major asset classes. The only major trend was a decline in the dollar for January and stronger moves higher for precious metals. With higher inflation expectations, and […]
SEC Charges Investment Adviser With Stealing Investor Funds
(HedgeCo.NET) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Connecticut-based investment advisory business and its owner with stealing money from investors to settle a private lawsuit among other misuses. The SEC alleges that Sentinel Growth Fund Management and its founder […]
The top 20 hedge funds made their investors $16.1 billion last year
(Yahoo) London-based fund-of-funds LCH Investments published its annual list of the top 20 “great money managers” for 2016. The list, produced using the fund of funds’ estimates and data from eVestment, measures net gains, after fees, of hedge fund managers […]
Dan Loeb: Trump will make hedge funds great again
(Reuters) U.S. hedge fund manager Dan Loeb is betting President Donald Trump will be good for investments thanks to his planned mix of tax cuts, reduced regulation and infrastructure spending. “This environment is undoubtedly better for active investing – just […]
Preqin: Private Debt Investors To Increase Commitments As Performance Exceeds Expectations
(FINalternatives) A large majority of private debt investors plan to increase capital commitments to the asset class in 2017 while more than a quarter of them say their private debt portfolios outperformed expectations last year, according to a new survey […]
SS&C Enters Into Exclusive Partnership With HedgeCoVest
(FINalternatives) SS&C Technologies has inked an agreement with managed-account platform HedgeCoVest LLC to provide its SMArt Xchange service exclusively to SS&C’s client base of advisors on Axys, APX, or Black Diamond platforms. To read this article:
Top Japan Hedge Fund Says Trump Rally Will Fade
(Bloomberg) Tsukasa Shimoda, whose UMJ Galleyla Fund beat all other Japan-focused hedge funds last year, says the Donald Trump rally will soon fade as the U.S. president’s protectionist policies start to hurt the global economy.“The U.S. economy perhaps may improve […]
Managed Futures – No Trends to Exploit
(Harvest) The managed futures hedge fund style, as measured by the SocGen CTA index, declined by just under one percent for the month. There was limited movement in commodities and bonds and the largest gains for the month were in […]
It’s Time to Clean Up Managed Futures Mutual Funds
(Harvest) Our latest commentary on the liquid alts space has been published in WealthManagement.com: It’s Time to Clean Up Managed Futures Mutual Funds “Fair fees” and “managed futures” have been the investment equivalent of an oxymoron. To read this article:
Hedge Funds Suffer $102 Billion Outflow in 2016
(Citywire) The hedge fund industry suffered a massive net outflow of $102 billion (£80 billion) in 2016. The figure was revealed in the 2017 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, which also stated that 66% of hedge fund investors felt their […]