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Pimco and Hedge Funds Are Still Fighting Over Subprime Scraps
Bloomberg – Eight years after the bottom fell out of the U.S. housing market, investment giants including BlackRock Inc. are facing off against small hedge funds over the detritus of the subprime era. The issue: When does it stop making […]
Oil Majors Falling Out Favor With This Hedgefund Boss
OilPrice – Huge oil companies, among the largest businesses in the world, don’t excite hedge fund manager Jim Chanos because today they have to work harder and more inefficiently than ever to bring their products to market. “[W]e’re just seeing […]
Google Chairman Invests In Hedge Fund D. E. Shaw
New York, HedgeCo.Net – Google chairman Eric Schmidt, has bought a 20% equity share in the D. E. Shaw group, a global hedge fund investment and technology development firm with more than $36 billion in aggregate investment capital. “I’ve always […]
S&P Capital IQ: Hedge Fund Are Diving Into Health Care Stocks, $4.8 Billion
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – S&P Capital IQ’s first quarter hedge fund analysis finds that the health care sector has driven the lion’s share of buying among the largest pure play hedge fund managers, with net buys of $4.8 billion in […]
Hedge Fund Strategy: Behringer Securities and Meritage Capital To Team Up
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – Hedge funds Behringer Securities LP and Meritage Capital, LLC have signed an agreement to work together to develop, manage and distribute a series of milti-strategy market volatility investment funds. Austin-based Meritage Capital has $1.2 billion in […]
SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator: May Notifications 4.68%
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2015 measured 4.68%, up from 3.36% in April. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator of 4.68% for May 2015 is up from 3.36% in April, reflecting mainly seasonality, as the […]
Charter Agrees to Buy Time Warner for $55 Billion
NBC – The broadband battle heated up on Tuesday when Charter Communications said it agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $55 billion, in a deal that would combine the second- and third-largest U.S. cable providers and create a more […]
Hedge fund managers stung by ‘class warfare’ rhetoric
CNBC – Hedge fund investments are finally outperforming, but the public image of their managers is taking a beating. President Barack Obama called the group “society’s lottery winners” last week, noting that the top 25 earning hedge fund managers made […]
Hedge Funds Win Through Stock Connect
WSJ – A clutch of Asian hedge funds that seized on a new trading link between Hong Kong and Shanghai are posting outsize returns at a time when other investors remain wary of placing big bets on Chinese companies. The […]
SEC Wants New Hedge Fund Reporting Procedures For Derivatives
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A new monthly portfolio reporting form, Form N-PORT, would require registered funds other than money market funds to provide portfolio-wide and position-level holdings data to the Commission on a monthly basis, the SEC has proposed. Registered […]
Hedge Fund People: Investcorp Creates Chief Risk Officer Position
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Investcorp, an $11 billion alternative investment manager, announced today that Sunil Gaglani has been appointed to the firm’s hedge fund business in the newly created position of Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Gaglani will be responsible for […]
Here’s the top stock pick from each of 50 biggest hedge funds
The 50 largest hedge funds increased their exposure to stocks by 5.3% in the first quarter, according to FactSet. That’s a jump from 1% in the fourth quarter, according to the firm’s latest data on hedge fund ownership published Wednesday. […]
