Monthly Archives: July 2015
Award Winning HedgeCoVest Platform Unveils New Products For Advisors and Investors
New York (HedgeCo.net) HedgeCoVest, a real-time hedge fund replication platform, unveiled the HedgeCoVest Composite Models. Derived from actual hedge fund manager trades, these 15 sector-specific investment products encompass long and short positions, enabling investors to access the highest conviction investment […]
Fund Manager Predicts $30 Oil
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Oil was mired in a bearish trend in the second half of 2014 that saw the price of West Texas Intermediate Crude fall in 20 of the final 26 weeks of the year. During the fall, […]
China Focused Hedge Fund To Lift Suspension Of Investments
New York (HedgeCo.net) – After suspending redemptions and new investments on Monday, APS Asset Management announced on Thursday that they will lift the suspension on their Greater China APS Greater China Long/Short Fund and begin accepting investments in to the […]
Greece’s Issues Could Become More Than A Debt Crisis
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While hedge funds and institutional investors alike are mainly concerned with the sovereign debt and stock market in Greece, there could be a bigger concern in the long run and that is the geopolitical environment. During […]
Highlights From Nelson Peltz At The Delivering Alpha Conference
New York (HedgeCo.net) – At the Delivering Alpha Conference in New York on Wednesday, investors were given a glimpse of what some of the hedge fund industry’s brightest managers are thinking and doing with their money at this time. Some […]
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager: McDonald’s Culture Has To Be Turned Upside Down
(Business Insider) Activist titans Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management and Bill Ackman of Pershing Square weighed in on how to fix McDonald’s.The largest global fast-food chain has struggled in recent years, especially in the US. At the CNBC/Institutional Investor […]
The Most Interesting Investment in Bill Ackman’s Portfolio That No One’s Noticed
(Business Insider) Activist investor Bill Ackman, the CEO of $18 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, said the most interesting investment in his portfolio right now are mortgage originators Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The 49-year-old activist investor was on a […]
Greek Bailout Rests On Asset Sale Plan That’s Already Failed
(Bloomberg) Greece’s last-ditch bailout requires the country to sell 50 billion euros ($55 billion) of assets, an ambition it hasn’t come close to achieving under previous restructuring plans. The government of then-Prime Minister George Papandreou in 2011 set the same […]
Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Exposure To US Oil By Most Since 2012
(Reuters) Hedge funds and other speculators have made their sharpest cut in more than two and a half years to their bullish exposure toward U.S. crude oil, trade data showed Friday, a further sign that investor confidence in the oil […]
Paulson Said To Build Stake In Syngenta To Support Monsanto
(Bloomberg) Paulson & Co. has amassed a large number of shares in the Swiss pesticide company that’s trying to fend off a $45 billion takeover offer from U.S. rival Monsanto Co. and is supportive of a deal between the two, […]
Greenlight’s Einhorn Says Micron Will Be Worth More Than Netflix
(REUTERS) Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn said in an investor letter on Monday that chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) would be worth more than Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) within the next few years. Einhorn, whose $12 billion Greenlight Capital funds […]
Predictable Volatility Vs. Unpredictable Volatility in China
New York (HedgeCo.Net) The Chinese government has been acting fast in the past few days. After cutting rates for the past three years in order to boost GDP growth back to the levels the country was seeing in 2010 and […]