Monthly Archives: September 2015
Hedge Funds Burned By Fed To Set To Unwind Bearish Rate Bets
(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other speculators were ready to profit last week if the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates. Their bets proved wrong-footed, leaving traders poised to reverse course, according to TD Securities. The net aggregate short position in all […]
Struggling Fortress Liquidating Part Of Hedge Fund Business
New York (HedgeCo.net) – It has been a tough year for Fortress Investment Group and according to the Wall Street Journal, the struggling firm is liquidating part of its hedge fund business. According to the report, Fortress is selling off […]
Hedge Fund Manager’s Bearish Bet on Yuan Finally Pays Off
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Patience is a virtue, or at least that is how the old saying goes, but in the case of Ray Bakhramov, patience is has been very profitable lately. Bakhramov and his Forum Global Opportunities Fund have […]
Biotech Head: Kyle Bass Not the Problem
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Kyle Bass probably isn’t on the invitation lists of very many biotech and pharma companies’ holiday lists, but the head of one biotech firm recently stated that Bass isn’t the problem. In an interview on CNBC’s […]
Exclusive: Hedge fund Aurelius holds Ukraine debt, asking better terms – source
(Yahoo Finance) – A hedge fund that has for years used courts to secure better debt repayment terms from Argentina has accumulated Ukraine sovereign bonds and formed a group seeking improvements to a recent debt workout, a source with knowledge […]
Apple Popular Among Hedge Funds and Analysts
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Apple is one of the most widely held stocks in the world, but that hasn’t kept the stock from falling with the rest of the market. From mid-July through mid-August, the stock fell over 30% to […]
Ray Dalio Is Worried About Next Downturn as Fed Prepares Move
(Bloomberg) — Ray Dalio, founder of $154 billion Bridgewater Associates, said he’s worried about the next economic slowdown because monetary policy will be less effective than in the past. “I don’t care whether they raise 25 basis points,” Dalio said […]
Women Led Investment Funds Continue to Outperform the Industry, But Struggle to Raise Capital: KPMG Report
(Yahoo Finance) — KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, today issued the 2015 Women in Alternative Investments Report: Breaking Away, The Path Forward for Women in Alternatives, which found that women-owned or managed funds are making little […]
Not All Alternatives ETFs Are Actually Alternatives
New York (HedgeCo.net) – There have been a number of articles written in the last few weeks about liquid alts and how they performed during the month of August. While the funds experienced mixed results, as was the case with […]
Dalio Defends Risk-Parity Strategy
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As if taking his worst monthly loss in two years wasn’t bad enough, now Ray Dalio is having to defend his risk-parity strategy from other hedge fund managers. Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates and their All Weather Fund […]
Doubleline Capital to Offer Global Bond Fund
(Reuters) DoubleLine Capital, the investment firm overseen by Jeffrey Gundlach, on Wednesday filed a prospectus with U.S. securities regulators to offer a mutual fund that invests in bonds around the world.The DoubleLine Global Bond Fund, which Gundlach will manage, will […]
These Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Are Betting Big Time That Apple Is Cheap
(Forbes) It’s not often that you get an opportunity to buy Apple stock, the world’s most widely held stock, at a discount. But given the broad market declines of the past month, Apple has given the world a nice dip […]