Monthly Archives: August 2018
How Much Does Your Portfolio Rely on Technology?
(Harvest) With Apple finally having eclipsed the $1 trillion market cap threshold, and other companies also knocking at that door, an increasingly discussed topic among investors has been whether the narrowing of the recent rally to a handful of tech […]
Transamerica Entities to Pay $97 Million to Investors Relating to Errors in Quantitative Investment Models
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against four Transamerica entities for misconduct involving faulty investment models and ordered the entities to refund $97 million to misled retail investors. According to the SEC’s order, investors put billions of […]
Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association partners with Arthur J Martin LLC/Engel&Volkers
(Hedgeweek)The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) has formed a strategic partnership with international real estate firm Engel & Volkers/Arthur J Martens. To read this article:
Investors favour risk aversion and turn to safe haven assets
(Hedgeweek) CFA UK’s latest Valuations Index, which measures investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold, indicates a risk-off mentality amongst investors in Q2 2018, with those polled seeing most value in safe haven assets. To read this […]
Emerging Market Fund Managers Hunt for Bargains After Turkey Contagion
(Reuters) Turkey’s economic crisis has created headaches for investors and policymakers across emerging markets, but for some fund managers, it’s a chance to pick up a range of cheap assets, from Indonesian bonds to Brazilian equities. The bullish view on […]
Hedge Funds in Pain Watch Record S&P 500 Rally They’ve Missed
(Bloomberg) U.S. stocks are vaulting back to all-time highs. But the smart money isn’t celebrating. Instead, they’re nursing pain. Hedge funds have seen returns dwindling even as the S&P 500 Index marches forward in what has become, by some measures, […]
Follow The Smart Money: 3 Stocks Hedge Funds Are Buying
(Forbes) Should you buy stocks that hedge funds are buying? Not blindly, and no, marathoning all 3 seasons of Showtime’s Billions doesn’t count as proper research. Instead, for all the Bobby Axelrod wannabes out there, monitoring which stocks hedge funds […]
Turkey’s Tumult Puts a Spotlight on Country ETFs
(Harvest) With Turkey in freefall, the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) became an important tool for accessing a crippled market.The U.S.-listed ETF experienced record trading volume in recent days as investors used the fund to express views on Istanbul-listed stocks […]
Former Investor Relations Consultant For Imperial, Barred From Violating The Antifraud Provisions
(HedgeCo.Net) A court has barred a repeat securities law violator from serving as an officer or director of publicly-traded companies for perpetuating an illegal market manipulation and insider trading scheme that involved Indiana-based company Imperial Petroleum, Inc., which purported to […]
Investors favour risk aversion and turn to safe haven assets
(Hedgeweek) CFA UK’s latest Valuations Index, which measures investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold, indicates a risk-off mentality amongst investors in Q2 2018, with those polled seeing most value in safe haven assets. To read this […]
Majority of asset managers face challenges with distribution-related data, says State Street research
(Hedgeweek) Sixty four per cent of asset managers plan to launch cross-border products in the next five years, however, the vast majority (88 per cent) see distribution-related data as a challenge in achieving this, and believe the pace of change […]
Ramsay sounds out Capio investors as it ponders raising bid
(Reuters) – The French unit of Australian hospital group Ramsay Health Care has approached investors of Sweden’s Capio as it considers bumping up its 661 million Swedish crown ($756 million) bid for the hospital chain, a source close to Ramsay […]