Monthly Archives: February 2015
Several Hedge Funds Sold Positions In Apple Fourth Quarter
New York (HedgeCo.Net) According to a recent report by CNBC, several high profile hedge funds sold all or part of their positions on Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) during the fourth quarter of 2014. Greenlight Capital cut its stake in Apple during […]
UCITS Hedge Fund Strategy Index Up 1.09% In January 2015I
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Having finished 2014 with a modest performance of 1.62%, the UCITS HFS Index starts positively into the year with gains of 1.09% in January 2015. After the first full week of trading the broad index returned […]
Centaur Fund Services informs clients of important changes relating to distribution in Switzerland.
User Contributed News – Under the new Collective Investment Scheme Act (“CISA”) the rules for distribution of funds in Switzerland have changed significantly. The new rules take effect from 1 March 2015. In essence, marketing to many Swiss investors will […]
Seeing Value After a Plunge, Hedge Funds Bet on Energy Stocks
NYT – A few hedge fund managers have been tiptoeing back into the beaten-down energy sector. While many investors, including Warren E. Buffett, were selling energy stocks in the final three months of 2014, several hedge funds sought to profit […]
Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Show Stock Moves In Tech And Oil Names
Forbes – The nation’s most closely-watched hedge fund managers disclosed what their portfolios looked like at the end of 2014 in Securities & Exchange Commission filings that were required to be filed by Tuesday. David Tepper, the billionaire hedge fund […]
Major hedge funds unload Alibaba shares
Asia First – Months after several hedge fund managers piled into Alibaba following its record USD25bn IPO in September, several of the biggest US hedge fund managers have exited the Chinese’ e-commerce firm at the end of 2014 as the […]
When Hedge Fund General Partners Should Outsource Family Office Services
Forbes – For a number of reasons, some hedge fund managers have converted to a family office structure. Dodd-Frank granted family offices an exemption that effectively excluded single-family offices from registration as investment advisors. Possibly enticed by lower compliance and […]
Top U.S. hedge funds cut Apple stakes ahead of all-time high
Reuters – Top U.S. hedge fund management firms, including David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital and Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, reduced their stakes in Apple Inc during the fourth quarter, ahead of the iPhone maker’s strong rally in 2015, according to regulatory […]
Hedge Fund Outflows Double That Of 2014
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Compensated for by strong performance-based gains of $21.5 billion, net asset outflows for the hedge fund industry stand at $3.2 billion, nearly twice the outflows for the same period last year, Eurekahedge says in its February report. […]
The Economist’s activist hedge fund infomercial
ValueWalk – With its knack for tackling big subjects in a one-sided manner, The Economist in its February 7 issue imagines a dystopian world where corporate managers and boards of directors are generally incompetent, most investors are lazy; but “activists […]
Hedge fund short squeeze pushes Brent oil bets to 7-month high
Reuters – Hedge fund and other large speculators’ bets on rising Brent crude oil prices jumped last week to the highest since July, exchange data showed on Monday, as a price rally squeezed out short positions. Speculators’ net long positions […]
Hedge funds hate stocks, but that’s bullish
CNBC – Hedge funds don’t like equities very much right now, but that’s OK, because when this so-called smart money gets this bearish, it often means they’ve exhausted selling and the stock market is near a turning point higher. Here’s […]