Monthly Archives: September 2017

(FINalternatives) All seven investable long/short equity indices from Frankfurt-based liquid alternative index provider MV Index Solutions booked positive returns in August, the VanEck subsidiary has announced. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Matthew Alkaitis, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School, is calm, friendly, and a good listener—the kind of qualities you’d want in a doctor. But though he spends 14 hours a day studying for his board exams, the 29-year-old […]

(FINalternatives) Close on the heels of news that Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management will back a new fund formed by portfolio manager Sara Nainzadeh, the well-known alternative asset manager is also said to be supporting a new long/short equity strategy under […]

(Quartz) Hedge funds have been trounced by the stock market in recent years. Now they are eyeing a new asset class that might provide the big returns their clients pay them to produce: bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has risen nine-fold […]

(Opalesque) Copper Rock Capital Partners, a global equity investment manager, announced today the addition of David Dineen, CFA, to the investment team. Mr. Dineen will serve as a Portfolio Manager supporting each of the firm’s four investment strategies, and will […]

(Harvest) ETF.com posted an interview with Hossein Kazemi from Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association who did a study that concluded that small and medium sized endowments can effectively compete with the larger endowments by using ETFs to replicate the non-market […]

(Harvest) Thus far in 2017, the CBOE VIX Index has remained well below its long term average of 19.6. However, this does not mean the environment has been low risk. In fact, the political uncertainty and gridlock emanating throughout the […]

(FINalternatives) Capital flows to traditional asset managers were largely flat in the second quarter, according to new research from eVestment, but the period did see large moves across asset classes and regional strategies. To read this article:

(Reuters) Global investors added to Eurozone stocks in August, raising their equity exposure to the highest level in at least five years while trimming U.S. equity exposure to the lowest proportion in over a year. To read this article:

(Barron’s) A second quarter surge lifted emerging market hedge fund capital to $213.3 billion, a record, and India and China funds were performance leaders, according to Hedge Fund Research data. That puts hedge funds on par with the amount of […]

(Bloomberg) Haitong International Securities Group Ltd., a unit of China’s second-largest brokerage, is among the firms rushing to capitalize on regulations that could upend the global trading business.The company has ramped up its foray into electronic execution, betting that the […]