Monthly Archives: May 2019
PwC and Elwood Publish First Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report
(HedgeWeek) PwC and Elwood Asset Management (Elwood) have published a report examining the global crypto hedge fund landscape. The report is based on data from research in the first quarter of 2019 on 100 of the largest global crypto hedge […]
A Hedge Fund Offers to Share the Risk of Losses
(Bloomberg) Steve Diggle got rich by trading other people’s money. Now he’s trying to upend the very business model that made him wealthy. Once co-head of a $5 billion hedge fund that was among Asia’s largest, Diggle quit the industry […]
UK, Europe Tips Hedge Fund Redemptions to $11b Worldwide in March
(Opalesque) Hedge funds proved unable to turn February’s net inflows into a two-month trend, as March saw $11.0 billion in hedge fund redemptions worldwide, a dramatic shift from February’s $12.1 billion in inflows. Hedge funds’ March outflows represented 0.4% of […]
Court Orders Robert M. Morano to Pay Insider Trading Penalty
(HedgeCo.Net) The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon entered a final judgment against Robert M. Morano ordering him to pay a $75,000 insider trading penalty, which represents approximately two times the amount of Morano’s illegal trading profits. The […]
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index at 0.90 per cent for April
(Hedgeweek) The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for April 2019 measured 0.90 per cent. To read this article:
PwC and Elwood publish first annual global crypto hedge fund report
(Hedgeweek) PwC and Elwood Asset Management (Elwood) have published a report examining the global crypto hedge fund landscape. The report is based on data from research in the first quarter of 2019 on 100 of the largest global crypto hedge […]
Caspian appoints Bletchley Park Asset Management co-founder as adviser
(Hedgeweek) Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, has appointed Bletchley Park Asset Management Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer Lewis Fellas to its board of strategic advisers. To read this article:
Latam assets slide as U.S.-China trade war froths
(Reuters) – Latin American currencies softened against the dollar on Monday, with global risk appetite hammered by rising U.S.-China trade tensions, which prompted some investors in Latin American stocks to cash out their chips in a rush. To read this […]
Crypto hedge funds grew last year even as bitcoin slumped
(Reuters) – Cryptocurrency hedge funds managed three times more in investments in the first quarter of this year than in early 2018, a report by consultancy PwC and investment firm Elwood showed on Monday. To read this article:
Crypto Hedge Fund Survivors Lost 46% in 2018, PwC Analysis Shows
(Bloomberg) The cryptocurrency hedge funds that survived the 2018 market collapse lost almost half their assets To read this article:
Hedge Funds Raid BNP’s Shuttered Prop Desk Amid Talent Race
(Bloomberg) BNP Paribas SA’s closure of its proprietary-trading desk has triggered a hiring frenzy for the world’s biggest hedge funds. Citadel has recruited Mathieu Gaveau, who was head of rates at BNP’s Opera Trading Capital division until it was shut […]
The Big Picture: Global Macro Hedge Funds, Then and Now
(Opalesque) “The rise of hedge funds as actively managed investment vehicles is closely related to the spectacular performance of global macro funds in the nineties when they shone with stellar and consistently positive returns for almost a decade,” says senior […]