Monthly Archives: November 2011
Hedge Fund Adviser Website Launch: Financial Trust
Press Release – South Florida based SEC registered Investment Advisor specializing in quantitative investment management, Financial Trust Asset Management, has launched a new website. Financial Trust’s Family of 13 investment strategies have won a combined 70 “Top Gun” awards from Informa Investment Solutions, a national […]
Gnip & StockTwits Create Micro-Blogging Data Product For Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Gnip Inc announced a partnership with StockTwits, launching Gnip MarketStream, a product designed to incorporate the most relevant social media data streams into a single solution for hedge funds and high-frequency traders. “While the use of social media […]
Hedge Funds Shunning Facebook and Twitter
Advanced Trading – Hedge funds, who are known for keeping a low profile, are almost completely ignoring Facebook and Twitter. Only 1 percent of hedge fund managers use Twitter and none have a wall on Facebook, according to a survey […]
SEC: Phony hedge fund sold fake pre-IPO shares
Politico – The pitch on LinkedIn seemed too good to be true: Act now to buy pre-IPO shares of Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Zynga and other hot companies about to go public. And indeed that’s exactly what the Securities and Exchange […]
Synaptic Capital hedge fund targets healthcare sector
Med City News – Synaptic Capital is raising money for a hedge fund looking to target mid- to large-cap companies in the innovation and delivery side of the healthcare sector. The Synaptic Medical Fund uses an equity long-short strategy and […]
Hedge funds and private-equity firms have big plans for Europe
Economist – “THIS is going to be the next great trade,” one American hedge-fund executive effused early this year. For more than two years funds have been salivating over the slew of assets that Europe’s banks will have to sell. […]
Merton Says Hedge Funds Not Contributing to EU Crisis
Bloomberg – Robert Merton, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, talks about possible risks posed by hedge funds to financial markets, and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. He speaks with Carol […]
Hedge Fund Leaders To Speak At Annual Bloomberg Summit
Bloomberg – As hedge fund managers look back on a year filled with black swan events and face uncertainty heading into 2012, Bloomberg LINK will convene the brightest minds in finance to share their perspectives on the year ahead at […]
HedgeCo™ (HCN) Hedge Fund Indices Returns Through September 2010
New York- (HedgeCo.net) – The HedgeCo.net Hedge Fund Aggregate Index showed an average annual return of -2.69% through September 2011, compared to the S&P500 which showed an average of 0.85%. While equities markets improved in September, the sovereign debt problems […]
Currensee Launches Foreign Exchange Investment Service for Institutional Clients
Boston – Currensee (www.currensee.com), the leader in bringing the world currency markets to investors and financial institutions across the globe, today launched the availability of its Trade Leaders™ Investment Program for institutional clients and their investors. The company also announced […]
Big funds bought News Corp as scandal rumbled
Financial Post – Several major hedge funds and institutional investors piled in on stock of News Corp even as the company was reeling from a phone hacking scandal which hurt the stock in the third quarter. UK fund Children’s Investment […]
Paulson Said to Cut Risk in Main Funds Amid Europe Crisis
Bloomberg – John Paulson, the billionaire hedge- fund manager having his worst year, is cutting risk in his hedge funds further as the European sovereign-debt crisis roils markets, according to two people briefed on the matter. Paulson & Co., which […]