Monthly Archives: July 2018

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund capital ended Q2 2018 at a new record level for the eighth consecutive quarter as investors reversed Q1 strategy flow trends, allocating new capital to Equity Hedge strategies while redeeming from Macro strategies, with Relative Value Arbitrage […]

(Bloomberg) A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is in an unusual place this year as the world’s biggest shipping company finds itself the target of an attack by hedge funds. For years, there’s been no speculation against Maersk to speak of. In September, […]

(Bloomberg) Investors pulled about $3 billion from hedge funds in the second quarter, the first quarterly outflow since early 2017. Macro hedge funds led net outflows in the period, with $2.8 billion leaving the strategy, according to a report Thursday […]

(Reuters) U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management has raised its stake in Alpine Electronics Inc (6816.T) to 6.3 percent, a regulatory filing showed, in a move that could add pressure on the Japanese company to reward minority shareholders. That followed a […]

(Bloomberg) Active fund managers in the U.S. and Europe have slashed their equity holdings — giving some Wall Street players confidence stocks have further room to run. That may sound counter-intuitive at first. But the reasoning is based on a […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and private equity firms are positioning to profit from the collapse of companies in Europe that have binged on debt. Investors have built up their distressed debt businesses by the most in at least two years in […]

(Institutional Investor) A majority of hedge fund professionals surveyed by BarclayHedge said advanced quantitative methods played a role in their investment process.The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly becoming widespread among hedge fund managers, if a recent […]

(Harvest) Applied Equity Advisors combines factor investing with stock-specific research. Tapping both sources of excess returns helps us achieve greater consistency of returns and avoid behavioral pitfalls. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A full house — twos over queens — won the ninth annual Take ‘Em to School Poker Tournament early Thursday. Walter Lamerton, a derivatives sales trader at Sanford C. Bernstein, beat Sessa Capital’s Jae Hong to take the crown. […]

(aiCIO) Hedges tripped again in June, recording the asset class’ third negative month, as gauged by the 2018 Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark….June saw a 0.5% loss for the benchmark, giving the standard its worst start to a year in […]

(Dealbreaker) We know people haven’t exactly been racing to give their money to Steve Cohen, as he expected and apparently deserved. And those who have studied and been berated at the feet of the great man don’t exactly have the […]

(New York Times) Goldman Sachs is getting a new leader and venturing into different businesses, but there is a number in the bank’s second-quarter earnings that may also send a signal about its future. The number in question is Goldman’s […]