Monthly Archives: September 2016
Global Macro Investing – A Simple Framework
(Harvest) Global macro investing can focus on just macro issues or be more specialized by looking for specific security opportunities, but it starts with determining the impact of macro events on cash flows and discount rates. This macro focus is […]
Some of the Biggest Hedge Funds Are Bleeding Cash
(Bloomberg) Some of the biggest and best-known hedge funds can’t hang on to client capital…Richard Perry, who started his hedge fund 28 years ago, has seen assets in his Perry Capital shrink to $4 billion, from $10 billion last September. […]
Funds Cut Bearish Pound Positions Before BOE Rate Decision
(Bloomberg) The pound rose for the first time in four days as hedge funds and other large speculators cut their bets that the currency will fall for a second week before the Bank of England’s latest policy decision. That’s the […]
Family Of Trump’s Son-in-Law Linked to Hedge Fund Probe
(New York Post) The troubled New York hedge fund that is plaguing the city prison guards’ union has also ensnared the family of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, The Post has learned. Hedge fund firm Platinum Partners, which is being […]
Gross: Pimco’s ‘Bad Faith Obstruction’ in Bonus Suit
(Bloomberg) Pimco co-founder Bill Gross says his former firm has grown so unreasonable after a falling out over an unpaid bonus that it’s trying to force his attorneys to defy the realities of global travel. Gross’s accusations of “bad faith […]
Hedge Funds Hike Bets on Ideas of Coffee, Hard Wheat Supply Squeezes
(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds bet hard on stories of squeezes in higher quality wheat, and coffee, markets, even as they cut bullish positioning on agricultural commodities overall, to the weakest in nearly five months. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced […]
Are the Capital Markets Headed for a Major Correction and Will Hedge Funds Help or Hurt?
(HedgeCo.Net) Major corrections in the capital markets are a risk that investors must always consider. Experience shows the question is not if a major correction will happen, but when. The challenge for investors is to determine and prepare for the […]
BOK Financial, Senior Executive Charged With Turning Blind Eye to Investment Scheme
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a subsidiary of Oklahoma-based BOK Financial Corporation has agreed to pay more than $1.6 million to settle charges that it concealed numerous problems and red flags from investors in municipal bond […]
Some of the Biggest Hedge Funds Are Bleeding Cash
(Bloomberg) Some of the biggest and best-known hedge funds can’t hang on to client capital. Richard Perry, who started his hedge fund 28 years ago, has seen assets in his Perry Capital shrink to $4 billion, from $10 billion last […]
Patriarch’s Tilton Sues SEC Again On Constitutionality of Administrative Law Cases
(Fin Alternatives) Embattled private equity maven Lynn Tilton and her firm, Patriarch Partners, have sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission again to stop what she alleges are unfair and unconstitutional in-house enforcement proceedings against her and others. To read […]
Money market funds to reduce ABCP investments with new US and European regulation, says Moody’s
(Hedgeweek) The overall volumes that money market funds (MMFs) invest globally in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) will likely fall as the prime MMF industry shrinks, says Moody’s Investors Service.Nevertheless, ABCP will remain an important source of investment diversification for MMFs. […]
US options volume falls below 2015 as August languishes
(HedgeWeek) In July and August 2016, traders swapped 631.6 million total contracts, the lowest two-month total since August 2012.The S&P 500 Index fell 0.1 per cent in August, stalling at or around all-time highs as it closed within a 1.5 […]