Yearly Archives: 2010
Hedge Funds support US equities
Markets 24/7 – More optimistic appeared hedge funds managers on U.S. stocks, as many managers forecast improved course in the coming months, according to a survey of TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge Ltd. Nearly 46% of the 92 hedge-fund managers […]
Analysis: Size acts as barrier to growth of Asian hedge funds
Reuters – Two smaller Asian hedge funds that have bet on Thai and Southeast Asian stocks have made a killing this year, racking up more than 80 percent gains and ranking among the world’s 100 top-performing hedge funds. The Thai […]
Terra Partners Hires Belgrade Hedge Fund Analyst
People Moves – Frontier market-focused hedge fund manager Terra Partners Group has hired Danijela Mirkov-Arkula as an analyst in Belgrade, Serbia to increase Terra’s coverage of Eastern European companies with an emphasis on the Balkan region. “From the inception of […]
Hedge Funds Bet Gas Will Fall in Warm New Year
Bloomberg – Hedge funds raised bearish natural gas bets by the most since October on forecasts that higher- than-normal temperatures in the first weeks of the New Year will reduce demand for the heating fuel. The funds and other large […]
Tax break favors the high-fliers
Boston.com – Hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and other financial high-fliers have more to celebrate this holiday season than year-end bonus checks. Thanks to a $4 million lobbying campaign in Congress, and the support of key senators in both parties, […]
Hedge fund managers more bullish over U.S. stocks — survey
Pensions & Investments – Forty-six percent of hedge fund managers surveyed by TrimTabs and BarclayHedge this month were bullish about the S&P 500 index, 19% were bearish and 35% were neutral. Last month, the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey found that 30.5% of […]
Where next for hedgies?
IPE Magazine – Hedge funds endured an ‘annus horribilis’ in the market crisis of 2008 – but the industry has started to adapt and consequently the future looks less bleak. Recent research by Deutsche Bank and Greenwich shows that most […]
CBOE, Options Clearing Corp. sued by NY hedge fund
Crain’s – Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund LP, a New York hedge fund, is suing the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Options Clearing Corp. over an alleged $10-million loss from trading in India Fund Inc. options. Platinum, whose chairman and […]
Goldman to Take Stake in $1.8 Billion Hedge Fund
NYT – Goldman Sachs’s Petershill Fund has agreed to buy a minority stake in Mount Lucas, a Pennsylvania-based hedge fund firm that manages about $1.8 billion — as industry deal-making remains strong. In a statement, Mount Lucas said it would retain […]
Hedge Funds Crash, Apple Turns Uncool in 2011: Matthew Lynn
Bloomberg – There is an old joke that economists only make predictions so that the weather guys have someone to laugh at. In much the same spirit, once a year this column also makes some predictions — but only so […]
State had funds in raided firms
Boston.com – When the FBI raided three hedge funds last month, Massachusetts pension officials weren’t immediately sure if they had a problem. By the end of the day, they knew they potentially did: The pension fund had nearly $66 million […]
Sallies hedge fund owner sells to London company
BusinessDay – Sallies, a fluorspar miner listed on the JSE, has announced that Maghreb Minerals has bought US-based Firebird Global Master funds’ 66.9% stake in the local company. Maghreb Minerals is listed on the London Stock Exchange while Firebird is […]