Monthly Archives: November 2016

(Daily ALts) Strategic Investor Radio Charley Wright In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Cathie Wood. Ms. Wood is the CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, which is headquartered in New York City. She has more […]

(Bloomberg) Losses at Leda Braga’s computer-driven hedge fund this year are running at about twice the level suffered by a macro fund run by billionaire Alan Howard. Yet, while Braga has raised money, investors have pulled billions of dollars from […]

(FinAlternatives) The blistering pace of fundraising for private debt funds over the past several years may be slowing, according to recent data from Preqin showing a sharp fall in European private debt activity so far this year. To read this […]

(FinAlternatives) Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched a new exchange-traded fund designed to track the company’s well-known Hedge Fund VIP Index of stocks that appear most frequently among the top ten positions of hedge funds. To read this article:

(FinAlternatives) Alternative industry data provider eVestment has launched a new consortium of leading investment consultants aimed at establishing standards for reporting private equity fund performance data. To read this article:

(Harvest) In past articles, I’ve discussed the negative correlation between the VSTOXX® Volatility index and the EURO STOXX 50® Index and how the volatility index tends to rally when equities decline (downside volatility). To read this article:

(Reuters) Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) has settled a 2011 lawsuit claiming the investment bank fraudulently induced a bond insurer to guarantee payments on the doomed Abacus collateralized debt obligation ahead of the financial crisis. ACA Financial Guaranty Corp claimed […]

(Bloomberg) Activist investors, having targeted companies in Japan and South Korea in recent years, have discovered a new playground in Asia. In Singapore, where activist investing was virtually unheard of until now, two companies have found themselves in the crosshairs […]

(HITC Business) Mark Lyttleton, a former high-profile BlackRock portfolio manager, pleaded guilty to two counts of insider trading in a London court…..Insider dealing carries a maximum prison term of seven years in the U.K.. To read this article:

(The Business Insider) The North American asset management industry is on the brink of a “once-in-a-generation” shift. That’s according to a new report out by McKinsey on Wednesday..,Certain segments of active management are “facing an existential crisis….” To read this […]

(Bloomberg) Losses at Leda Braga’s computer-driven hedge fund this year are running at about twice the level suffered by a macro fund run by billionaire Alan Howard. Yet, while Braga has raised money, investors have pulled billions of dollars from […]