Monthly Archives: July 2015
Former Soros Manager Said To Seek $750 Million For Macro Fund
(Bloomberg) Dai Jixin, a Hong Kong-based alumnus of Soros Fund Management, is seeking as much as $750 million for a global macro hedge fund, said people with knowledge of his plans.Dai recently opened his Trigram Global Macro Fund to international […]
Hedge Funds Turn Bearish On Ruble For The First Time This Year
(Bloomberg) Investors using Russian ruble futures turned bearish this week for the first time since December, according to data compiled the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Hedge funds and large speculators were net short 2,001 futures contracts on the currency […]
Omega’s Einhorn Sees Another Two Years Left In US Bull Market
(Bloomberg) The six-year bull market for U.S. stocks has at least another two years left, Omega Advisors Inc.’s Steven Einhorn said Sunday. “There’s quite a while to go before this particular bull market ends,” Einhorn, vice chairman of the New […]
Hedge Fund Giants Mario Gabelli, Stephen Mandel & Andreas Halvorsen Are Getting Active
(Benzinga) Many investors consider tracking hedge fund moves central to their strategy. Let’s take a look at the past week’s most relevant hedge fund moves. GAMCO Investors Mario Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors was quite active this week.On Tuesday, the fund disclosed […]
Queen Of Quants Sees More Algorithm-Based Trading In Future
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Leda Braga is arguably the most influential woman in the hedge fund industry. She is also known as the “Queen of the Quants” due to her use of systematic trading and use of algorithms. At the […]
Manager Profile and Insights: Ron Breitigam, Lake Austin Advisors
New York (HedgeCo.Net) Lake Austin Advisors is an alternative investment manager located in Austin, Texas. Founded and seeded by successful technology entrepreneur Joel Trammel, the firm runs actively managed trading strategies available to both institutional, family office and high net […]
Industry Survey Suggests Blended Portfolios Are Increasing
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Citigroup recently released its sixth annual Industry Evolution Survey and the results showed that investment managers are working on portfolios that make use of new products and attempt to build dynamic portfolios that blend different asset […]
Volatility in China Causes Fund Manager To Stop Redemptions
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The tumultuous month in the Chinese market has led at least one hedge fund to suspend redemptions as well as new investments. Singapore based APS Asset Management took action in its APS Greater China Long/Short Fund […]
IMF Says Greece Needs Even Deeper Debt Relief From Europe
IMF Says Greece Needs Even Deeper Debt Relief From Europe Bloomberg posted on Wed 15 Jul 2015 Permalink Greece needs debt relief “far beyond” what European creditors have been willing to consider, including possibly deep “haircuts” on the value of […]
Hedge Fund Firm Visium Said To Raise First Private Equity Pool
Hedge Fund Firm Visium Said to Raise First Private Equity Pool Bloomberg posted on Thu 16 Jul 2015 Permalink Visium Asset Management, the multistrategy hedge-fund manager with about $7 billion in assets, is seeking to raise $500 million for its […]
Singer and Ackman Are Concerned About China–Goldman Isn’t
(Bloomberg) Hedge fund managers including Paul Singer and Bill Ackman who’ve been concerned about the slump in China’s stock markets may feel better if they listened to the country’s best economists. Singer, whose hedge fund Elliott Management has been locked […]
Up 428%, This Hedge Fund Now Likes Energy and Cayman Beaches
(Bloomberg) Ryan Melkonian says the strategy he developed for LTE Partners was shaped by a couple of experiences earlier in his career. First, from his perch at a New York family office in the 1990s, he saw how different asset […]