Monthly Archives: June 2016

(Daily Alts) Cancel the June Fed meeting and good luck getting the FOMC out of their board shorts and bikinis long enough for a July meeting. While one data point should never be enough to influence change, the five sigma […]

(Yahoo Finance) One of Europe’s most aggressive activist hedge funds is building a stake in Yahoo! as the digital portal proceeds with a multibillion dollar auction of its core internet business. Sky News has learnt that The Children’s Investment Fund […]

(Bloomberg) Iceland has gone its own way since its three largest lenders collapsed in 2008 under a mountain of debt almost eight times the size of its economy. The steps included capital controls that locked in hedge funds, mortgage writedowns […]

(Bloomberg) Wagers against Chinese stocks have become so popular that banks are offering returns exceeding 20 percent to anyone prepared to take the other side. The potential payouts, from firms including BNP Paribas SA and JPMorgan Chase & Co., come […]

(Reuters) It looks as if hedge fund activists engineer not just a short-term pop in target firms’ stock prices but also long-term improvements in innovation. While studies have shown that news of an activist position in a stock leads to […]

(Harvest) Central banks’ monetary policies – zero or negative interest rates and bond purchases – are losing their effectiveness. Earlier this year, the G-20 country leaders stated that “monetary policy alone cannot lead to balanced growth” and advocated that governments […]

(Valuewalk) The hedge fund industry just can’t seem to catch a break this year….However, there’s one section of the hedge fund world that seems to be doing better than others. After years of haemorrhaging clients and cash, commodities hedge funds […]

(Reuters) Jeffrey Gundlach’s DoubleLine Capital reached $100 billion in assets under management last month, the Los Angeles-based firm said on Wednesday. DoubleLine, founded in December 2009 and considered one of the fastest-growing asset managers in the United States, benefited from […]

(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management’s main portfolio climbed 1.2 percent in May as some of its biggest investments, Bank of New York Mellon and Sotheby’s, performed better. The May returns helped shrink the fund’s year-to-date decline to 8.7 […]

(The Verge.Com) Two hedge fund managers have been indicted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice for allegedly selling fake shares in Uber, Airbnb, and Alibaba, and using the money to pay for visits to Las […]