Monthly Archives: February 2018

(Bloomberg) One of the best starts to a year in recent history for global stock markets is ending with a bump as volatility spikes and a bond selloff deepens, with investors assessing whether prices ran too hard in too short […]

(Bloomberg) By now we know that having more women on leadership teams enhances businesses. We also know that women have qualities that make them good investors, such as their approach to risk. Why then are there still so few women […]

(Harvest) Investors in Europe are more optimistic than they have been in years, but there is growing concern that U.S. dollar weakness could make the euro too strong. Investors in Europe are more optimistic than they have been in years […]

(Harvest) This Covariance matrix represents a Portfolio with Stocks and ETFs. The diagonal in the matrix that is highlighted are the calculated Variances of each security in the Portfolio. The Variance shows how far each security is from the mean […]

(Harvest) We dive into the bottoms up data of the shape of today’s market opportunity set for value investors and find we are in uncharted territory. In January 2018, the overall market valuation / GDP (“Buffett Metric”) surpassed the previous […]

(Bloomberg) Quantedge Global Fund, the world’s best-performing quantitative hedge fund last year with more than $1 billion in assets, is taking the rare step of asking clients to lock in their money for several years even as such arrangements have […]

(Bloomberg) After a cohort of hedge fund veterans called it quits last year, a trio of established managers are prepping to fill their shoes in 2018 by starting firms with at least a billion dollars apiece. Daniel Sundheim, who until […]

(The Business Insider) Folger Hill Asset Management’s flagship fund returned 2.65% last year compared to a 21.8% gain in the S&P 500…..the hedge fund started by billionaire Steve Cohen’s former chief operating officer Sol Kumin, says its underperformance is “not […]

(Bloomberg) Jeff Altman’s Owl Creek Asset Management is pushing Brunswick Corp. to spin out its fitness business after building an activist stake in the company, which also makes boats and billiards tables. “Brunswick stakeholders would benefit significantly from a spinoff […]

(Bloomberg) Swedish hedge fund Brummer Nektar is now shorting the dollar, anticipating a “strong momentum in the short run,” said Patrik Olsson, chief investment officer at the fund, which manages about 25 billion kronor ($3 billion) from London, Stockholm and […]

(FINalternatives) Hedge funds gained again last week as CTAs outperformed and equity weightings were increased, according to the latest edition of Lyxor Asset Management’s Weekly Brief. To read this article:

(FINalternatives) Booming investor confidence drove net sales of equity-oriented UCITS funds to a record in November, according to the most recent data from the European Fund and Asset Management Association, as total UCITS/AIF assets reached €15.66 trillion. To read this […]