Monthly Archives: February 2018

(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp launched a campaign on Thursday to convince NXP Semiconductor NV (NXPI.O) mom-and-pop investors to shoot down a $38 billion deal to sell the semiconductor company to larger peer Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O). The campaign […]

(Bloomberg) David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital hit a wall in January as its main hedge fund fell 6.6 percent, its worst monthly performance since October 2008. In a note to clients, the firm attributed most of its poor performance to losses […]

(Business Insider) Blame the robots. That was the common explanation among Wall Streeters on Monday after the biggest selloff ever in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Machine-based traders were commonly blamed for the drop, which included a ramp up in […]

(The Business Insider) The hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones spoke at a private investor conference last week, and he told a group of Wall Street investors he was betting on a spike in volatility.One person who attended summarized Jones’ […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge fund managers Dan Loeb and Philippe Laffont are picking up this year where they left off in 2017: making lots of money. Loeb’s Third Point Ultra fund returned 5.5 percent in January and his Third Point Offshore fund […]

(The Business Insider) Some of the market’s most influential investors are making an unprecedented bet that near-term bond yields will climb — and that could continue heaping pressure upon stock traders. Hedge funds and other large speculators are holding a […]

(Reuters) Asset management powerhouse Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company LLC (PAAMCO) is giving institutional investors like pension funds a new way to bet on stocks with big hedge fund managers. The firm plans on Thursday to roll out PAAMCO Select, […]

(Bloomberg) A bullish bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., the drugmaker that spurred losses for Bill Ackman’s investment firm, helped a San Francisco-based hedge fund to a 119 percent gain last year, according to a person familiar with the matter. […]

(HedgeWeek) Institutionally priced funds gathered over USD600 billion of net new fund flows in 2017, according to data released today by Broadridge Financial Solutions. To read this article:

(CNBC) David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital missed out on the best January for stock investors in two decades. Greenlight Capital Offshore declined 6 percent in January, while the Greenlight Capital LP fund dropped 6.6 percent…. To read this article:

(The Business Insider) Greg Coffey’s new fund, called Kirkoswald Capital Partners, is planning to launch within the next two months with $1 billion, according to an investor familiar with the plans. The fund aims to hard close at $2 billion, […]

(Bloomberg) Equity investors are in for a further stomach-churning down-draft, but it will pay off to stay the course, according to AMP Capital Investors Ltd. “It’s likely the pullback has further to go as investors adjust to more Fed tightening […]