Monthly Archives: March 2014
McClatchey: Hedge funds: Should they be a part of your portfolio?
The Southern – Mention the words “hedge funds” to most individual investors, and they might think of high-risk, potentially high-return investments that seem to invite trouble. In fact, most hedge funds are a diverse class of investments that use aggressive […]
Pershing continues big turnaround in 2014
NYP – So far, 2014 has been very, very good to Bill Ackman. The hedge-fund mogul’s Pershing Square International is up 11.7 percent this year, according to an investor, powered by a 7.4 percent gain in February. The gain far surpasses […]
Cantor Acquires Fintan to Boost Hedge Fund Assets
Bloomberg – Cantor Fitzgerald LP said it acquired hedge fund Fintan Partners LLC as the investment bank expands its money-management business. Fintan, led by founder Alexander Klikoff, farms out money to fixed-income hedge funds, Cantor said today in a statement. The […]
Hedge Funds Flocking To Ireland
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA) is reporting an uptake in applications by fund managers seeking authorisation in Ireland under the new Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). According to information released from the Central Bank […]
Google & Autism Speaks Invite Hedge Funds To Listen
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – In an effort to link private investors and hedge funds to innovative autism-related business developments, Autism Speaks, a leading autism nonprofit, is teaming up with Google to hold the 2014 Autism Investment Conference. The event will be held March 4-5 […]
Proposed revision to Bridgewater zone draws support and sharp questions
Westport News – Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, plans to keep a presence at its Glendinning Place corporate campus, regardless of whether it moves some of its offices out of town, according to the lawyer who […]
SEC investigating Goldman, Citi on bonds: report
HedgeWorld – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe into how Wall Street banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc., allocate and trade corporate bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [Feb. 28]. The SEC is examining […]
Confessions Of A Hedge Fund Manager
The Motley Fool – What do you call a room full of hedge fund managers? Could it be an academy of hedge fund managers? Or maybe we should call them a college of hedge fund managers. Whatever we eventually decide […]
13 hedge funds get Sebi approval
FC – More than a dozen hedge funds have received the regulatory nod after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) allowed hedge fund-like strategies to launch operations in India under alternative investment fund (AIF) Category-III segment. The funds […]
Hedge funds sit out the emerging market turmoil
CNBC – Hedge funds usually thrive on volatility, but many of them are sitting out the emerging market turmoil even as they become more positive on the segment. Greater differentiation among global emerging markets, leading to less correlation within the […]
Survey Results Show 73% of CTA/CPO Respondents Impacted by FCM Failure
Horizon Cash Management said today that 73% of the commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and commodity pool operators (CPOs) that responded to its survey were impacted by one or more of the futures commission merchant (FCM) failures mentioned in the study. […]
Cyprus banks to reopen with emergency restrictions on cash withdrawals
Guardian – Cyprus has made eurozone history by imposing swingeing measures to stop money flooding out of the country when its banks reopen after a 12-day hiatus on Thursday. After repeatedly delaying the reopening of the banking system, officials said banks […]