Monthly Archives: February 2018

(CNBC) The e-mail arrived in clients’ inboxes shortly after the market opened on Tuesday: “LJM strategies have suffered significant losses.” LJM Partners, a Chicago-based hedge fund with about half a billion dollars in assets, pinpointed the damage on spiking volatility, […]

(Bloomberg) Jeffrey Talpins’s hedge fund Element Capital Management jumped 10 percent in January, extending gains from 2017 on the back of investments in equity and interest rate markets, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The $12.5 billion […]

(Bloomberg) UBS Group AG’s investment bank allocated the biggest discretionary payouts to the highest revenue generators and younger employees as competition from other industries intensifies, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The strategy is in line with its […]

(Bloomberg) Jim Rogers, 75, says the next bear market in stocks will be more catastrophic than any other market downturn that he’s lived through. The veteran investor says that’s because even more debt has accumulated in the global economy since […]

(Reuters) Activist investor Sandell Asset Management plans to oppose Tesco’s 3.7 billion pound ($5.2 billion) takeover of Booker Group unless the wholesaler secures a better offer from Britain’s biggest retailer. The New York based hedge fund said in a statement […]

(Fox Business) Shares of Herbalife are surging this year, but company executives are taking no chances against their old nemesis, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, as they press legislation in Congress to make life much more difficult for investors who […]

(The Business Insider) “One asset class stands out as a clear winner under the assumptions of reflationary macro backdrop,” Hale said. “Commodities outperform on both absolute annualized returns and a Sharpe ratio basis relative to all other fixed income and […]

(Dealbreaker) Elliott Management chief Paul Singer can be a patient man. He can be methodical and philosophical in getting what he wants, even if it takes 13 years. He can wait seven for vindication over VW. And he gave Hess […]

(Harvest) Low volatility has been a feature of the U.S. equity market for several years. The absence of significant volatility and the surge in the S&P 500 Index drove investor sentiment to very high levels in 2017. Last year the […]

(Harvest) Recently, we’ve seen equity markets pull back amid concerns that rising rates, inflation and slower growth could erode profitability for companies. On Monday, February 5th, the US equity market experienced a sudden bout of volatility. The Dow Jones Industrial […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds that try to earn a crust from speculating on the market impact of shifts in the economic and political background have starved in recent years. But the global macro gang is back. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) You didn’t have to be some dad with an E*Trade account or an ex-manager for Target Corp. shorting the VIX to get burned. The smart set took its lumps in the downdraft, too. Days before the S&P 500 Index’s […]