Monthly Archives: May 2015
Joseph Childrey, Probabilities Fund
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Probabilities Fund Management is an SEC- Registered Investment Advisor based in San Diego and they run the Probabilities Long/Short model on the HedgeCoVest platform. Joseph Childrey is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer for Probabilities Fund […]
Hedge Fund People: Investcorp Creates Chief Risk Officer Position
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Investcorp, an $11 billion alternative investment manager, announced today that Sunil Gaglani has been appointed to the firm’s hedge fund business in the newly created position of Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Gaglani will be responsible for […]
Foreign Markets Record Strong Growth In 2015
New York (HedgeCo.net)- Through the first four months of 2015, the U.S. Indices were not the best places to be invested. The Dow was down 0.79% in the first four months and the S&P and Nasdaq could only post gains […]
Models Return to Winning Ways
New York (HedgeCo.net) – A mock portfolio invested in all single-strategy models would have provided a return of 0.41% last week while a model portfolio invested in the top 10 models would have returned 0.51%. A portfolio of the top […]
DoubleLine Capital’s Gundlach Warns Investors
New York (HedgeCoVest) – Jeffrey Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine Capital, issued a warning to bond fund investors on Tuesday, stating that they may not get what they were expecting. In particular Mr. Gundlach called out the unconstrained funds which are […]
Here’s the top stock pick from each of 50 biggest hedge funds
The 50 largest hedge funds increased their exposure to stocks by 5.3% in the first quarter, according to FactSet. That’s a jump from 1% in the fourth quarter, according to the firm’s latest data on hedge fund ownership published Wednesday. […]
Hedge Fund Vultures to the Rescue in Puerto Rico
Bloomberg – Bring ice skates on your next trip to Puerto Rico. There’s a sweet public rink in Aguadilla that claims to be the only place to skate year-round in the Caribbean. “This is a great way to spend some […]
Hedge fund exit requests hit year’s high in May-data
Reuters – Investor requests to take out cash from hedge funds rose in May to their highest this year, data from fund administrator SS&C Technologies showed on Wednesday. The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator, a snapshot of withdrawal requests expressed […]
Imation loses proxy fight; hedge fund ousts 3 board members
TwinCities – An activist hedge fund has won a hotly contested proxy fight at Imation Corp., replacing three board members — including the company’s CEO and nonexecutive chairman, the Oakdale-based company said Wednesday. The Clinton Group, a New York-based hedge […]
Hedge Funds Boosting ETF Growth
New York (HedgeCo.net)- In the HedgeCoVest newsletter two weeks ago, we featured an article entitled Assets in ETFs to Surpass Hedge Funds This Quarter. One of the issues that we brought up in that article was a question of how […]
The $10 Hedge Fund Supercomputer That’s Sweeping Wall Street
Bloomberg – It sounds like the mother of all spreadsheets: 1 million rows, 1 million columns — 1 trillion entries in all. Fortunately, Braxton McKee isn’t using Excel. Instead, he’s tapping into the cloud to crunch all that market data […]