Monthly Archives: June 2015
Hedge Fund Frontfour To Vote Against Crescent Point, Legacy Deal
(Reuters LTD) In an article published in Reuters, Hedge fund and activist shareholder FrontFour Capital Corp said on Tuesday it plans to vote against the proposed sale of troubled Canadian producer Legacy Oil + Gas to Crescent Point Energy Corp […]
US Becomes The Worlds Top Oil, Gas Producer
(Bloomberg.Com) The U.S. has taken Russia’s crown as the world’s biggest oil and natural-gas producer, illustrating the seismic shifts in the global energy landscape caused by America’s shale fields. BP’s Take on the World’s Energy Needs — At A Glance […]
US Fund Seeking Injunction To Block Takeover of Samsung C&T
(Reuters.Com) U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott said on Tuesday it is seeking an injunction against Samsung C&T Corp and its directors to block a proposed $8 billion takeover offer from Cheil Industries Inc. Elliott, in a statement, said the deal […]
Are Wealth Managers Facing An Adapt Or Die Scenario?
New York (HedgeCo.Net) One of the iconic lines from the movie Moneyball comes when Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is being confronted by old-school scout Grady Fuson (Ken Medlock). Fuson is unhappy that the Oakland A’s are taking a new approach […]
Biotech Venture Funds Pace For Capital Raising
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Clarus Ventures closed the door on capital raising for its new biotech fund, but not before raising the targeted $500 million. This new fund from Clarus comes on the heels of other funding raises within the […]
Yet Another Hedge Fund Index UP Showing Gains For May
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – There are a number of hedge fund indices that try to accurately record how the industry performs from day to day, week to week and month to month. Earlier this week there was the report from […]
Hedge Fund Managers Increase Bets on European M&A
(Reuters.Com) According to a recent article in Reuters, Hedge fund managers looking to profit from corporate announcements such as mergers and acquisitions are scaling up their bets in Europe, confident that a resolution of the Greek debt crisis is near […]
Majority Of Advisors Plan To Continue Recommending Alternative Investments
(DailyAlts.com) Can alternative investments help advisors build more robust portfolios for their clients, or are they just hype? That’s the subject tackled by a study conducted by Pershing and Beacon Strategies, with the results compiled into a new white paper […]
First Hedge Funds Now Private Equity
New York (HedgeCo.net) – When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced last fall that they were no longer going to be investing in hedge funds, the media had a field day. Despite the fact that CalPERS stated that […]
Glenview Offshore Opportunity Fund Tops Barron’s Hedge Fund List
New York (HedgeCo.net)- The annual Barron’s Hedge Fund List was recently released and for the second straight year, Glenview Offshore Opportunity Fund came in at number one. The fund managed by Larry Robbins accumulated a three-year annualized gain of 57%. […]
Hedge Funds Boosting ETF Growth
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com)- In the HedgeCoVest newsletter three 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 […]