Category Archives: Hedge Fund Strategies
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 […]
Joseph Childrey, Probabilities Fund
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Probabilities Fund Management is an SEC- Registered Investment Advisor based in San Diego and they run the Probabilities Long/Short model on the HedgeCoVest platform. Joseph Childrey is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer for Probabilities Fund […]
Hedge Funds Reach Nearly $2.2 Trillion
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds returned $59.5 billion in performance-based gains for the first quarter of 2015, their highest Q1 gains on record since 2006 which brings the total industry AUM to a record high of nearly $2.2 trillion, […]
Argon Raises $75 Million From Its Credit Hedge Fund
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Argon, a leading provider of online consumer loans, today announced that it has successfully raised a total of $81 million from investors, highlighted most recently by a $75 million debt facility from a credit hedge fund. […]
Blackstone Buys Hedge Fund Shares, Property in Europe
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund investor Blackstone Group has bought a minority stake in $13.6 billion multi-strategy hedge fund Magnetar Capital LLC, the WSJ reports. “This transaction will help us continue to meet the objectives of our most important […]
Thaler To Turn His $1.7 Billion Hedge Fund Into A Family Office
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – JAT Capital Management, a multi-billion-dollar global equity investment firm founded by John Thaler in 2007 is returning client money in order to turn his $1.7 billion hedge fund firm into a family office. “As I approach […]
Activist Hedge Funds: H Partners Wins Mattress Wars
New York (Hedgeco.Net) – The world’s largest bedding provider, Tempur Sealy, has acquiesced to pressure from Rehan Jaffer’s hedge fund, to remove Mark Sarvary as the Company’s President and CEO. Tempur Sealy also appointed one of Jaffer’s senior partners, Usman […]
A Number Of Streaks In Oil Trading And Production
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The oil market has been on a wild ride over the past year. After prices for West Texas Intermediate Crude peaked at $107.68 last June, the price per barrel fell to as low as $42.41 in […]
Manny Roman Reports FUM up 7% to $78.1 Billion At Hedge Fund Man
New York (HedgeC0.Net) -Manny Roman, Chief Executive Officer of hedge fund giant Man Group, reported a a good start to the year from a performance perspective which, together with the latest acquisitions, contributed to an overall 7% increase in FUM over […]
Blackstone To Hedge On Canadian Diamonds
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Blackstone Tactical Opportunities has acquired a 20% equity position in a leading Canadian diamond exploration and development company, according to reports. Blackstone has purchased the shares from Stornoway for $250 million. The hedge fund giant also bought into […]