Monthly Archives: August 2017
Gold Buoyed as Hedge Fund Titan Sees Leaders `Playing Chicken’
(Bloomberg) Gold advanced to the highest in two months as the spike in tensions between the U.S. and North Korea fanned demand, with hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio flagging rising risks including “two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders playing chicken […]
Ray Dalio Preparing For Gilded Post-Apocalypse
(Dealbreaker) Like the rest of us, Ray Dalio has been on a bit of a roller-coaster ride since Nov. 8 of last year. Indeed, if anything, he’s been whipsawed even more violently, because as much as $17 billion helps cushion […]
Hedge funds get some respect as passive wave grows
(Pension & Investments) The decade long growth of cheap index funds is giving hedge funds an unexpected influence in setting market prices. As investors hand more of their money to passive managers and active stock pickers get sidelined, hedge funds’ […]
China Leads Emerging Asia to Greater Role in Capital Markets
(Harvest) Over the next 12 to 24 months, we expect that Asia, led by China, will become a far more significant part of the global capital markets – and global investment portfolios. Investors absorbed by the latest Chinese currency move […]
Ex-Nomura Manager Admits to Insider Plot With Wife’s Account
(Bloomberg) A former risk manager at Nomura Holdings Inc.’s Americas division in Manhattan pleaded guilty to securities fraud, admitting he traded last year using inside information about a private equity fund’s planned takeover of a technology company. Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy was […]
SS&C GlobeOp: Hedge Fund Performance Index Up +1.24% In July
(FINalternatives) Hedge funds posted their best returns since January last month, according to new research from SS&C GlobeOp, while net asset flows advanced slightly. To read this article:
Fed’s Allegedly Crack $15 Million Scheme To Defraud Investors
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Tennessee men and an accomplice in Fort Lauderdale with allegedly defrauding investors they lured by false promises of high returns from an oil drilling investment opportunity. According to the SEC’s complaint […]
Hedge Funds Seen Gaining Market Influence in Passive Boom
(Bloomberg) The decade-long growth of cheap index-tracking funds is giving hedge funds an unexpected influence in setting market prices. As investors hand more of their money to passive fund managers and active stock pickers get sidelined, hedge funds’ heft is […]
World’s Largest Hedge Fund Says Buy Gold As Price Rally Nears $1,300
(Mining.com) Last week, safe haven buyers continued to boost the gold price, lifting the metal to its highest level in more than two months. Gold futures in New York for delivery in December, the most active contract, jumped to a […]
After a Long Drought, Bear Market Funds Attract Buyers
(Reuters) Bearish stock investors are slowly coming out of hibernation, as money has begun to move into funds that aim to profit when markets dive. U.S. mutual funds that attempt to profit in falling markets attracted $413 million in new […]
Gold Buoyed as Hedge Fund Titan Sees Leaders `Playing Chicken’
(Bloomberg) Gold advanced to the highest in two months as the spike in tensions between the U.S. and North Korea fanned demand, with hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio flagging rising risks, including “two confrontational, nationalistic, and militaristic leaders playing chicken […]
Barclay Hedge Fund Index up 1.11 per cent in July
(Hedgeweek) Hedge Funds gained 1.11 per cent in July according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index has risen every month this year and is up a cumulative 5.48 per cent for 2017. To read this […]