Monthly Archives: August 2015
Hedge Funds AUM Increases By $106 Billion
(Valuewalk.com) Hedge fund assets under management have increased by US$106.0 billion in the first seven months of 2015, driven by strong investor inflows totaling US$54.1 billion and roughly US$52 billion coming from performance-based gains. The CBOE Eurekahedge Relative Value Volatility […]
Bank Of America Tells Advisers To Exit Paulson Hedge Fund
(Reuters) – Bank of America Merrill Lynch is telling its financial advisers to pull clients’ money from billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson’s Advantage fund and said they are not permitted to put new money into one of his other […]
Hedge Fund Inflows Hit 15-Month High
(Reuters) – Investors raised their bets on hedge funds at the fastest pace for 15 months in August. The SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, which calculates monthly hedge fund subscriptions minus redemptions at the start of each month, rose 0.92 […]
What Will be the Impact of China’s Currency Devaluation?
(Hedgefund Intelligence) The RMB devaluation on August 11 surprised global markets because it marked the end of a Chinese yuan-US dollar peg strategy, which made the RMB a one-way bet for traders as the dollar strengthened. If we look at […]
CBOE Launches Hedge Fund Benchmarks With Eurekahedge
(Yahoo Finance) Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) today announced it has launched four new benchmark indexes in collaboration with Eurekahedge, a Singapore-based hedge fund research and data collection company, that measure the performance of hedge funds that employ volatility-based investment […]
Claren Road Investors Seek To Pull Out Nearly $2 Billion
(New York Times) Investors in Claren Road Asset Management may think the hedge fund has come to the end of the road. The hedge fund, founded by four traders in Citigroup’s credit trading department in 2005, is facing requests from […]
Hedge Funds Betting On A Big Pharmaceutical Merger
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With one big merger in the works but far from a done deal, the pharmaceutical sector is drawing a lot of attention from hedge funds. In the latest 13F filings hedge fund luminaries like David Tepper’s […]
Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Up In July
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Credit Suisse released the July performance numbers for their 14 hedge fund indices yesterday and the results were mostly positive with 10 of 14 gaining ground. The most closely watched Broad Based Index gained 0.87% during […]
Goldman Sachs Retains #1 Spot In Prime Brokerage Ranking
(Hedgefund Intelligence) Goldman Sachs has maintained its dominance of the hedge fund prime brokerage business for a fourth consecutive year. J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse remain, respectively, in second and third place. A casual glance at the ranking reveals that […]
Several Hedge Funds Added Apple in Q2
New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to recent 13F filings, several large hedge funds were adding shares of Apple in the second quarter. A recent Reuters’ article cited that David Tepper and Appaloosa Management LP initiated a new position on the […]
Asian Macro Hedge Fund Sees Explosive Growth
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Just a year ago, Leland Lim and Allan Bedwick launched Guard Capital with $49.4 million in assets under management. Now the Hong Kong-based fund is on the verge of eclipsing $1 billion in AUM. A recent […]
The Hedge Fund Industry’s Assets Under Management Expected to Grow by A Quarter Trillion Dollars
(Traders Magazine) In just one year the hedge fund industry’s assets under management are expected to climb by a quarter trillion dollars. Agecroft Partners, a third party hedge fund marketing firm, said in a recent update that despite funds underperforming […]