Monthly Archives: February 2018

(The Business Insider) Maverick Capital, the $10.5 billion hedge fund run by Lee Ainslie, is betting big against the smartphone market.The firm said in a January 30 letter to investors that its largest collective short position is companies that it […]

(The Guardian) Financial markets are braced for more volatility this week amid predictions from the world’s biggest hedge fund that a “big shakeout” is coming…. To read this article:

(Valuewalk) …So crucial is data and the related management processes that a recent global survey from KPMG found from 125 alternative investment managers across 19 countries, “Only 2 percent of our respondents anticipate a ‘business as usual’ scenario….The rest see […]

(Bloomberg) Firm’s shift to 1133 Avenue of the Americas coming this year…Headcount and assets are down at the New York-based hedge fund. To read this article:

(CNBC) “When the 10-year [yield] crosses 2.90 percent my thinking is traders panic and we get our bottom with a big sell-off in FANG,” Barry Bannister, Stifel’s head of institutional equity strategy, said late Thursday. To read this article:

(Seeking Alpha) A recent study by Barron’s studying the disparity in performance between small and large hedge funds over the past 20 years….found that, on average, the largest hedge funds returned 0.61% per month, with smaller funds returning 0.75% per […]

(Harvest) First, a quick review of our risk models.When thinking about risk, we begin with a very long-term view, which we call Equilibrium. This model encompasses a long-term view (20 to 30 years into the future) that can be thought […]

(Bloomberg) After one of its best months ever in January, February got hairy for this hedge fund picker.RPM Risk & Portfolio Management, which manages funds of hedge funds, had a return of 13 percent in January for its Evolving CTA […]

(Bloomberg) The sell-off in global stocks that briefly looked to have ended mid-week has come back, tipping markets from the U.S. to Asia into declines exceeding 10 percent from their January highs. China, where retail investors dominate, got hit particularly […]

(Bloomberg) Europe is suddenly the hot market for hedge-fund investment. After years of being overlooked, the continent is attracting capital from investors who want to take advantage of a recovering economy as the last effects of the euro-zone debt crisis […]

(CNBC) Bitcoin should return to peak levels in the next couple of weeks and will continue growing from there, said digital currency investor Dan Morehead. “There’s such an institutional appetite to get exposure to this,” said Morehead, who is founder […]