Monthly Archives: May 2014
Hedge Funds Take Muni-Bond Market By Storm
Wall Street Daily – Something big is cooking in Puerto Rico, and it demands our immediate investment attention. For the last seven years, the beleaguered Puerto Rican economy has been mired in the muck, enduring GDP contraction in five of […]
Hedge Funds Cut Gold Bull Bets Most in Month: Commodities
Bloomberg – Hedge funds cut bullish bets on gold futures by the most in a month as holdings of physical bullion in exchange-traded funds dropped to the lowest since 2009. Money managers’ net-long position contracted for the second time in […]
Hedge Funds: The Transparent, The Opaque And The Tiered
Investing.com – Intralinks and Opalesque commissioned a study to determine how much transparency institutional investors want, how often, and why. Intralinks is now out with a report on the results. In the period February-March 2014 the surveyors received more than […]
Could it be? Have hedge fund ‘piñatas’ gone soft?
CNBC – The financial world’s piñata may have been broken, and it looks like it’s raining treats. Anthony Scaramucci, the SkyBridge Capital founder and face of the SALT hedge fund conference, which wrapped Friday in Las Vegas, once famously asked […]
Hedge Fund People: Kira Bazile Joins North Street Global
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Former BTIG director and 17 year hedge fund industry veteran Kira Bazile has joined NY financial firm North Street Global. In her new role, she will head business development for the firm’s fund administration platform, capital […]
SEC Warns Investors About Marijuana-Related Investments
The SEC cautioned investors about the potential for fraud in microcap companies that claim their operations relate to the marijuana industry after the agency suspended trading in the fifth such company within the past two months. The SEC issued an […]
Buffett, hedge funds trim GM holdings amid record recalls
Bloomberg – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in General Motors in the first quarter and some hedge funds including Greenlight Capital Inc. exited completely as the company recalled a record number of vehicles. Berkshire reduced its GM holdings […]
Hedge fund moguls put money on Asian Internet, low-volume stocks
Reuters – From Asian Internet stocks, which have boomed over the last year, to food and paper products companies, prominent hedge fund investors listed their favorite stocks on Thursday at an industry meeting dominated by talk of where markets will […]
Treasury to 2%, bond doldrums and the new hedge-fund god
MarketWatch – Somehow the huge jump in Indian stocks probably isn’t doing a whole lot for you. I can almost hear our readers say wistfully, “if only we could vote in a new government.” Instead, all we get in the […]
Top U.S. hedge funds divided over GM in first quarter
Reuters – Top U.S. hedge fund managers had mixed feelings about General Motors in the first quarter as the automaker’s shares fell 15.8 percent, with some increasing their holdings and others going so far as to sell their entire stakes. […]
Major U.S. hedge funds sold ‘momentum’ Internet names in first-quarter
Reuters – Top hedge funds shed their stakes in high-profile Internet names such as Netflix Inc and Groupon Inc in the first quarter, moving to peers viewed as more mature and less volatile. High-growth Internet software and biotech companies were […]