Monthly Archives: July 2015
Fortress Joins Growing List
New York (HedgeCo.net) – This has not been a good month for alternative asset managers, at least not in terms of their own earnings performance. On Thursday, Fortress Investment Group joined a growing list of alternative investment firms that have […]
Fund of Funds Outperform Hedge Funds in Past Year
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest report from eVestment showed that over the past year, funds of hedge funds have performed better than hedge funds themselves. The semi-annual report for July reported that the average fund of funds gained 6.65% […]
Blackstone Pushing for Liquid Alt Offerings in 401(k)’s
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The liquid alternative industry has experienced tremendous growth over the last seven years, with assets under management going from $100 billion to $440 billion during this time period. As impressive as the growth has been, the alternative […]
Individual Investors Are Not Trusting The Market
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The American Association of Individual Investors started their weekly sentiment survey in June of 1987. This past week’s results caused a record to be broken, but what that record means is uncertain. For the sixteenth straight week […]
More Bad News For Carlyle Group
New York (HedgeCo.net) – One day after having a noted financial consultant advise clients to leave one of their hedge funds, Carlyle Group LP reported on Wednesday that their earnings dropped 38% on a year over year basis. Much of […]
Highlights From The Credit Suisse Mid-Year Survey
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Credit Suisse released its mid-year hedge fund survey yesterday and there were some very revealing highlights about the industry. The survey polled over 200 institutional investors from around the globe with just over half being in […]
Hedge Fund Billionaires Bet On London As Revival Gathers Pace
(Bloomberg) London’s fund industry is bouncing back, and U.S. billionaires Steven A. Cohen and Ken Griffin are grabbing a piece of the action.Griffin’s Citadel and Millennium Management, a hedge fund run by Israel Englander, have bulked up in London, where […]
Einhorn Punished By Gold as Greenlight Drops 16% in 2015
(Bloomberg) David Einhorn is being punished for making the wrong call in the gold market. The main hedge fund at his Greenlight Capital has slumped this year, and the reinsurer that counts on Einhorn’s investing approach has dropped 16 percent […]
Viewing Liquid Alternatives Through A Hedge Fund Lens
(Daily Alts) Liquid alternative investments, also known as “alternative mutual funds” and “liquid alts,” have experienced a rapid growth in popularity, with the number of funds offered and their assets under management soaring over the past two years. Despite this, […]
Here’s What Hedge Funds Are Saying About The Second Half Of 2015
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As the second quarter has started and with many U.S. indices sitting at or near all-time highs, we asked the hedge fund managers that manage the models on theHedgeCoVest platform for their thoughts on where we […]
A Short Seller’s New Target: Canadian Housing
(The Globe and Mail) Marc Cohodes is not a typical Canadian housing bear. He lives on a farm in Sonoma County, Calif., with his wife and 28-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy. He raises 500 chickens, selling the eggs for […]
Bucking The Trend: Wells Fargo Launches Commodities Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Most of the recent headlines regarding commodity based hedge funds have been about poor performance or funds closing down, but Wells Fargo & Co.’s wealth management division is launching a new fund in the midst of […]