Monthly Archives: September 2013
Advanced Planning Considerations For Hedge Fund General Partners
Forbes – For hedge funds there are a number of factors that translate into long-term success. Topping the list is high-quality investment performance. Hedge funds are all about alpha. However, for business success and to produce a stellar track record, […]
Huge hedge fund wheat bets ‘limit price downside’
AgriMoney – The extent of hedge funds’ negative positioning on wheat has got so large that it may limit their appetite for more, brokers warned, even as prices outperformed those of fellow grains. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced […]
Hedge funds and private equity are thriving … thanks to pension funds
Guardian – Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and two years after the Occupy Wall Street protests erupted in Zuccotti Square, hedge funds and private equity funds are alive and well. This was not a foregone conclusion during […]
Open-Government Laws Fuel Hedge-Fund Profits
WSJ – When SAC Capital Advisors LP was weighing an investment in Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., the hedge-fund firm contacted a source it knew would provide nonpublic information without blinking: the federal government. An investment manager for an SAC affiliate asked […]
Blackberries: autumn’s free-for-all hedge fund
Telegraph – (I’m pretty sure this story got in my inbox because of a typo in it’s title, anyhoo…. Happy fall!) – This weekend, with the autumnal equinox, summer becomes autumn. Scarves and hats are officially permissible, sloe gin is […]
Hedge fund billionaire: Fed’s move ‘fantastic’ for the rich
NBC – The Federal Reserve isn’t just inflating markets. It’s also shifting a massive amount of wealth from the middle-class and poor to the rich, according to billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller. In an interview on “Squawk Box,” the […]
Hedge Fund Drops Opposition to Smithfield Deal
NYT – Starboard Value, the activist hedge fund that was seeking to block Smithfield Foods’ $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat processor, dropped its fight on Friday, saying that it could not formalize an alternative takeover bid. The concession […]
Should Hedge Funds Advertise?
As the ban on hedge fund, private equity fund, and venture capital fund “advertising” is set to lift on Monday, September 23, most funds are wondering if they should take advantage of the opportunity, or sit it out. Of most […]
Fed Leaves Hedge Fund Bears Waiting on Emerging-Markets Bet
Bloomberg – Ray Bakhramov has been waiting almost two years for his hedge fund’s bet against emerging markets to pay off, which spurred a 20 percent loss in 2012 and cost him clients. Even with a slump from bonds to […]
Six Foreign Hedge Funds to Gain Foothold in China
WSJ – China, which has been gradually opening up its financial system, is about to let foreign hedge funds stick a small toe in. Regulators in the city of Shanghai have agreed to let a group of American and British […]