Monthly Archives: August 2015
ETFs Forced To Get Smart Hedging Dollar With Easy Money Gone
(Bloomberg) The most popular strategy in the $2.1 trillion U.S. market for exchange-traded funds is losing its luster, leading the world’s biggest asset managers to search for ways to keep the money flowing. ETFs that hedge against currency risk have […]
Hedge Fund Stockpickers See U.S. Consumer As The Best Bet In A Rocky Market
(Forbes) Many of the biggest hedge fund managers in the U.S. get paid a King’s ransom to uncover value stocks, distressed buys, new growth industries, and sectors prone for consolidation. Amid today’s market turmoil, which has battered commodity producers and […]
HedgeCoVest Composite Models Hold Their Ground in Meltdown
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Thursday saw the overall U.S. stock market get routed as investors fled due to global economic fears and fear the Fed would raise interest rates too soon or too fast. The S&P lost 2.11% and the […]
What External Hedge Funds Like and Dislike the Most
New York (HedgeCo.net) – We spend a considerable amount of time analyzing and reporting on what sectors the hedge funds on the HedgeCoVest platform like and don’t like. This past week, Credit Suisse released a report showing which sectors mutual funds, […]
Hedge Funds Become Defensive: First Time Since 2011
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The choppy, range-bound market has taken a toll on investors and it looks as if hedge funds are becoming more defensive with their portfolio allocations as a result. According to a recent article from Forbes, Goldman […]
Five Favorite Industrial Stocks Of HedgeCoVest Managers
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The HedgeCoVest platform looks at all of the holdings of each hedge fund manager on the platform and then take the highest conviction trades and creates composite models based on the favorite long and short positions. […]
Hedge Fund Icons Bullish On Different Forms Of Energy
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Recent 13F filings showed that a number of top hedge funds added energy stocks during the second quarter. However, there was very little overlap in terms of the stocks that the funds were adding and in […]
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 […]
6 Retail Stocks Buffet, Soros and Others Are Buying
(TheStreet) — Like it or not, the holiday season is just around the corner — and hedge fund pros already have their chips stacked on where they think you might be shopping. The National Retail Federation revised its forecast for […]
Hedge Funds Aggressively Bearish Towards U.S. Crude
(Reuters) A relatively small group of hedge fund managers has placed a record bet on U.S. oil prices declining further in the months ahead. Hedge funds and other money managers had accumulated gross short futures and options positions totaling 163 […]
Robertson’s Tiger To Invest Startup Capital In China Fund Yulan
(Bloomberg) Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management will invest seed capital with Yulan Capital Management, a China-focused hedge fund firm started by former Citadel money manager Lilian Zhou. Zhou invested in Chinese equities at Chicago-based Citadel before starting New York-based Yulan Capital […]