Monthly Archives: February 2019

(Forbes) Shrinking revenue and crushing debt have steadily pushed Windstream WIN -25.39% Holdings (WIN) toward bankruptcy for months. Now a Manhattan federal court ruling will likely shove the wireline phone company over the edge. Unless it can successfully appeal the […]

(eFinancial) I’ve worked as a quant in finance for over two decades, on both sides of the Atlantic. And I can smell the rot setting in. To read this article:

(Marketwatch) An ugly fourth quarter for stocks saw hedge funds scale back their stacks in U.S. equities, according to one analysis of quarterly filings and other data…..Coming into 2019, the percent of S&P 500 market cap owned by hedge funds […]

(New York Post) Justin Brass, a managing director in the bank’s Special Situations Group, left the bank this week, according to two people familiar with the move. Sarah Lieber, a senior vice president who worked for Brass, also left the […]

(Hedgeweek) Investor optimism spurred by a variety of favourable conditions pushed hedge funds to a solid start in 2019 with a 3.88 per cent return in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of […]

(Hedgeweek) CTAs have dramatically increased their long fixed income positions over the last quarter according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset team, and the company is concerned about the impact a bond trend reversal might have on […]

(Hedgeweek) The big question that arises whenever trade wars emerge is the extent to which the principal actors involved devalue their domestic currencies. For the US and China, the battleground is substantially uneven in the sense that China basically controls […]

(Hedgeweek) LiquidX, a global network for illiquid assets, transacted a record USD7.4 billion in 2018, as year-over-year trading volume soared 40 per cent. The platform handled four times as many unique credits in 2018 than in previous years. To read […]

(Hedgeweek) Lucena Research, a specialist in predictive analytics for financial markets, and Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate earnings and events data to institutional investors, are bringing to market new combined offerings in the form of actionable signals for […]

(Reuters) A growing number of hedge funds are moving into shipping debt, an asset class few have invested in before, looking to buy up loans and bonds as banks cut their exposure to the troubled sector. World economy worries and […]

(Opalesque) Investor optimism spurred by a variety of favorable conditions pushed hedge funds to a solid start in 2019 with a 3.88% return in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. […]