Monthly Archives: April 2016
Has the Fed Bankrupted the Nation?
(Harvest) Volcker, Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen. Which one does not belong? Logic dictates that Volcker should have been odd man out. After all, there is no legendary “Volcker Put.” The towering monetarist made no bones about never being bound by […]
Small-Cap Specialist Acuitas Launches Long-Short Strategy
(Daily Alts) Small-Cap Specialist Acuitas Launches Long-Short StrategyWith stock markets hovering around long-term highs, and bonds near long-term lows, many investors are anticipating lower returns from traditional investments in the years to come. As a result, investors are increasingly looking […]
The Increased Difficulty Level of Successful Shorting
(Harvest) While the 21st century has had severe market declines in 2001, 2002, and 2008, profitable short selling year in and year out has become more difficult. One major negative is the enormous growth in the hedge fund industry itself. […]
One Of The Most Senior Women In The Hedge Fund World Just Got $130 Million For A New Fund.
(The Business Insider) Former Paulson & Co. partner Samantha Greenberg has received a $130 million commitment in seed money from the alternative investment manager Ramius LLC for her new hedge fund, Margate Capital. Greenberg started Margate Capital after leaving Paulson […]
Ex-BlueCrest Partners Favre, Germak Plan to Start Own Hedge Fund
(Bloomberg) Three former partners of BlueCrest Capital Management are starting a hedge fund, as their previous employer withdraws from the business of managing money for outside clients.Money managers Frederic Favre and Alexandre Germak are joining former BlueCrest partner Melanie Owen […]
Golden Ticket Hedge Funds Battered in Rough Start to 2016
(Reuters) Big-name hedge funds favored by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took a battering in the first quarter of 2016, with some posting their worst-ever start to a year on record. Most funds […]
Hedge-Fund Demand for London Offices Drops to Lowest Since 2012
(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and private equity firms took the least amount of office space in central London since the start of 2012 in the first quarter, according to broker Cushman & Wakefield Inc., as sputtering global growth and increased regulation […]
Multialternative Funds: The Best and Worst of March
(Daily ALts) Multialternative Funds The Best and Worst of March Multialternative mutual funds and ETFs returned an average of +1.33% in March, bringing the category’s total return to -0.67% for the first quarter of 2016. As a group, the category […]
Asia Hedge Funds Rebound in March After Worst Start on Record
(Bloomberg) Asia-focused hedge funds including those managed by APS Asset Management, Springs Capital and Pine River Capital Management gained in March as a market rebound helped managers claw back from the worst start to the year on record. Both the […]
You Don’t Have A Performance Problem. You Have An Image Problem.
(Harvest) In our industry, most think that it is all about performance. Generalizing, managers do everything for it, and they feel entitled when they get it. In the “old days,” that was fine. The return profile offered by hedge funds […]
Hedge Funds: Worst Stock-Picking Quarter In Years
(Valuewalk) Hedge funds posted an average return of 1.9% last month, but they were still down for the year with the average return at -9% year to date. It looks like things could change this month though as early numbers […]
How Japan Became a Hedge Fund Wasteland
(Bloomberg) Demand for hedge funds is about to skyrocket in Japan, but don’t expect supply to follow suit.So says Ed Rogers, head of Rogers Investment Advisors, who kept his business alive in Tokyo when the financial crisis forced many of […]