Monthly Archives: February 2017
A Hot New Hedge Fund is Gearing up for One of This Year’s Biggest Launches
(The Business Insider) A former Citadel money manager is gearing up for one of this year’s biggest hedge fund launches. Brandon Haley’s Holocene Advisors is planning to launch with about $1 billion on April 3.. To read this article:
CalPERS Elects New Chair and Vice Chair of Investment Committee
(Opalesque) Henry Jones has been named Chair and Bill Slaton Vice Chair of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s investment committee. Jones was first elected to the CalPERS in 2007 by retired CalPERS members. He was re-elected to terms beginning […]
Trade Secret: Emerging Markets Constrained by US Policy Uncertainty
(Harvest) Uncertainty about US trade policy changes that could potentially harm emerging market economies dragged them down 4% during the fourth quarter of 2016, underperforming developed markets by 2%. Yet emerging market economies generally showed positive signs, with exports beginning […]
Martin Investment Management, LLC’s Investment Strategies Offered on HedgeCoVest Platform
(HedgeCo.Net) Martin Investment Management, LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser, has teamed up with HedgeCoVest LLC to add two new institutional-level strategies to the HedgeCoVest Managed Accounts Platform and the SMArt Xchange (‘SMArtX’), a unified managed accounts platform available exclusively to […]
Some hedge funds call time on stock market rally
(Reuters) – Stock market optimism about U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic agenda is overdone and political risk in Europe isn’t priced in, according to some hedge funds who are betting that the rally in equities is coming to an end. […]
Beachhead Capital Management Adds Liquid Alt Strategies To Mercury iFunds Platform
(FINalternatives) Liquid alternatives specialist Beachhead Capital Management has announced the inclusion of two of its strategies in Mercury Capital Advisors’ iFunds platform. To read this article:
Preqin: Investors Diversify Alternative Assets Exposure
(FINalternatives) Alternative investors have significantly increased their asset class diversity over the past year, according to new research from data provider Preqin, while satisfaction with private equity is at record levels. More than a third of investors have exposure to […]
Marshall Wace Bets Grocer Sainsbury May Need Rights Offering
(Bloomberg) J Sainsbury Plc may need a rights offering as margins shrink amid fierce competition among U.K. supermarket operators, according to Marshall Wace LLP, a U.K. hedge-fund firm that’s betting on a decline in the company’s shares. “Sainsbury’s balance sheet […]
CME Group Sees Chinese Hedge Funds, State-owned Firms Driving Asia Growth
(Reuters) China’s 2015 market crash sparked a surge in Asian trading for futures exchange giant CME Group as Chinese funds hedged their risk offshore and growth prospects remain strong, the bourse’s head of Asia said on Tuesday. Christopher Fix, managing […]
BlackRock, Fidelity Bet Big on Brazil’s Booming Equities Market
(Bloomberg) BlackRock and Fidelity are betting Brazil’s world-beating stock surge over the past year has yet to run its course. William Landers, a money manager at New York-based BlackRock, says he entered the year with a “pretty big overweight” in […]
Some of the Biggest Names in the Hedge Fund Industry are Planning to Invest in a Hot New Fund
(The Business Insider) Philippe Laffont, the founder of Coatue Management; Louis Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital; and Dan Loeb, the founder of Third Point, are planning to invest in Ben Melkman’s Light Sky Macro, a New York hedge fund […]
SEC to Host Crowdfunding Dialogue February 28
(Hedgeco.NET) The Securities and Exchange Commission will host a crowdfunding symposium Feb. 28, covering research, challenges, opportunities, and the effects of securities-based crowdfunding on various market participants. The Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis is partnering with NYU’s Salomon […]