Monthly Archives: November 2016

(FinAlternatives) GSO Capital Partners, the credit division of alternative asset giant Blackstone, has raised $6.5 billion for its third mezzanine fund, making it one of the largest vehicles of its kind. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Crispin Odey, whose main hedge fund has lost about 43 percent this year, says U.K. stocks could slump 80 percent as the economy is roiled by a recession and higher inflation following the vote to leave the European Union. […]

(Valuewalk) CalPERS was the first high profile public pension to pull out of hedge funds, and was followed a year and a half later by one of the New York City retirement plans. Recently, the number of public pension funds […]

(FinAlternatives) A new survey by law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel shows that a wide range of corporate stakeholders, including institutional investors, boards and management teams, is increasingly accepting the activist efforts of alternative fund managers. To read this article:

(Reuters) A bigger bet on European stocks in the last quarter helped U.S. hedge fund Viking Global Investors improve returns after a difficult start to the year.”Notably, both net and gross exposure to European companies increased by 11 percentage points […]

(Bloomberg) E. Lee Hennessee, who started one of the first hedge-fund advisory firms and created an industry performance index before getting ranked among New York’s 50 most-powerful women, has died. She was 64. She was found dead Oct. 29 at […]

(Harvest) A sophisticated DFA-focused advisor asked us to conduct some research on the following question: Are there additional portfolio diversification benefits to combining concentrated portfolios of value and momentum stocks relative to combining less concentrated portfolios of value and momentum […]

(Harvest) Variable Rate Demand Notes (VRDN) are a vehicle for investors to meet their needs for principal preservation, liquidity and competitive yields, as well as a means to achieve the tax advantages of municipal bonds. To read this article:

(Reuters) – In a sign of growing confidence that China’s stock markets are stabilising, the country’s securities regulator has lifted an order that required brokerages each day to buy more shares than they sell for any proprietary trading. But China’s […]

(Herald Scotland) Aberdeen Asset Management is not for sale and founder Martin Gilbert has no intentions to step back or sell out, the company has said. On a recent report that founder Mr Gilbert, 60, has been looking in the […]