Monthly Archives: April 2017
Hedge Fund Strife Gives Rich Families New Swagger With Managers
(Bloomberg) It’s a buyer’s market in hedge funds and wealthy families are beginning to feel the love. Turmoil in the fund industry is giving family offices a resurgence in power. As traditional institutional backers reconsider their hedge fund investments amid […]
Quant Manager dormouse Falls -2.24% In March
(FINalternatives) Dr. Martin Coward’s quantitative investment manager dormouse slipped for the second month in a row in March, falling -2.24% as the systematic CTA space remained broadly under pressure, and closed the first quarter down -3.92%. To read this article:
Easter Candy Hunt Gets Cheaper as Funds Exit Sugar Bets
(Bloomberg) As Americans prepare to fill their Easter baskets with sweet treats, hedge funds aren’t feeling the sugar rush. As expectations for a global supply surplus mount, money managers have reduced their bets on a sugar rally for six straight […]
How The Head of The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Learned to Invest
(Business Insider) In an interview with Business Insider’s global editor in chief Henry Blodget on “The Bottom Line,” BI’s new weekly business show, Dalio laid out the fundamental investment philosophy that led to Bridgewater’s becoming the world’s largest hedge fund […]
Men Bet She Would Fail; Now She Runs a $26 Billion Fund
(New York Times) Dawn Fitzpatrick began her career at O’Connor & Associates, the Chicago firm that was later acquired by UBS as the Swiss bank’s internal hedge fund. She rose to lead the firm and become one of Wall Street’s […]
The Great ‘Buy the Dip’ / ‘Sell the Volatility’ Trade
(Harvest) The billion dollar question is whether the volatility gets evaporated so quickly die to all the players in this trade, or if there are so many players in this space because the volatility is getting evaporated so quickly. We […]
Declining Economic Growth and Managed Futures Strategy Returns
(Harvest) Another simple test to determine whether managed futures returns will do better than average is through looking at economic growth. Now, we know that bonds and other defensive assets like managed futures will do better in “bad times” such […]
SEC Adopts JOBS Act Amendments to Help Entrepreneurs and Investors
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that it has adopted amendments to increase the amount of money companies can raise through crowdfunding to adjust for inflation. It also approved amendments that adjust for inflation a threshold used to […]
Mixed performance for CTAs in March
(Hedgeweek) March produced mixed returns for CTA strategies, with the SG CTA Index finishing the month down 0.75 per cent, with positive contributions from five out of the 20 constituent CTAs. To read this article:
Lyxor AM Teams With Harmonic Capital Partners On New Global Macro Fund
(FINalterntives) Lyxor Asset Management has joined forces with London-based hedge fund manager Harmonic Capital Partners to launch a new UCITS-compliant global macro fund. To read this article:
Cerberus Capital Management Raises $4B For Sixth Multi-Strategy Fund
(FINalternatives) Global private investment manager Cerberus Capital Management has held a final close for its sixth flagship multi-strategy fund, raising a total of $4 billion in capital commitments and hitting the fund’s hard cap. To read this article:
Billionaire Investor Julian Robertson Pulls Plug on Protégés Fund
(Reuters) Billionaire investor Julian Robertson is shutting a portfolio that let outsiders bet with him on would-be star managers and has exited entirely from former protégée Nehal Chopra’s Ratan Capital Management, according to recent regulatory filings.The closure of Tiger Management […]