Category Archives: Hedge Fund Strategies

World’s Biggest Hedge Funds Reach Record Highs

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Absolute Return just went live with its latest Billion Dollar Club rankings and US hedge funds are now managing their all-time peak assets, with growth at levels not seen since before the financial crisis. Assets grew […]

Exis Hedge Fund Manager To Auction Off His Art Collection

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The former manager of the now shut down hedge fund Exis Capital Management is selling off around 400 pieces of artwork, Bloomberg reports. Sotheby’s will start selling the pieces in New York this summer. The auction house said […]

Hedge Funds Grab a Stake In Bitstamp

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – New York private equity firm Fortress Investment Group and two other investors, Benchmark Capital and Ribbit Capital, are buying a stake in Pantera Bitcoin Partners, a San Francisco-based hedge fund operator that buys and sells virtual currencies, Reuters reports. Pantera invested about […]

Activist Strategies Lead Hedge Fund Performance in 2014

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds posted their highest return in February since January 2012, supported by rising equity and commodity markets. Hedge funds are outpacing the S&P by nearly 100 basis points in 2014, according to the February 2014 February […]

Google & Autism Speaks Invite Hedge Funds To Listen

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – In an effort to link private investors and hedge funds to innovative autism-related business developments, Autism Speaks, a leading autism nonprofit, is teaming up with Google to hold the 2014 Autism Investment Conference. The event will be held March 4-5 […]

Six Hedge Fund Players Top $1 Billion Payday

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Forbes put out a list of hedge fund executives with the most pay in 2013.  The 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders made $24.3 billion in 2013. George Soros had the highest pay, $4 billion. […]

Hedge Fund Strategy: BNY Mellon Acquires HedgeMark

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – BNY Mellon has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining 65% interest of current affiliate and hedge fund risk analytic services, HedgeMark International, LLC.,  Zacks Equity Research reports. BNY Mellon has held a 35% ownership stake in HedgeMark since […]

Deutsche Bank: Hedge Funds To Reach $3 Trillion In 2014

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds are expected to reach a record breaking $3 trillion by year-end 2014, up from $2.6 trillion in 2013, Deutsche Bank reports. The 12th annual Alternative Investor Survey is is based on investors’ predictions of $171 billion […]

Hedge Fund Manager Research Is Paramount Says Northern Trust Director

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge funds trailed the S&P 500 in 2013, the fifth year in a row. Yet, while hedge funds returned an average 7.4% last year, some investors saw double-digit returns from their hedge fund managers. According to […]

Study: Education Paramount as Alternatives Become More Mainstream Among Investors

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Despite the growing proliferation of liquid alternative funds attracting considerable assets from investors, a recent study shows a vast majority of certain investors are not familiar with the term alternative investment. In November of 2013 Invesco […]

Hedge Fund Goes After Anonymous Blogger For Spilling Trade Secrets

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – David Einhorn, the founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital is going after anonymous blogger “Valuable Insights” who posts on the financial website ValueWalk. Einhorn filed a lawsuit seeking to identify the financial blogger in order to sue […]

California Hedge Fund Universa Investments Moves To Miami

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Equity tail hedging fund Universa Investments is moving its headquarters from Santa Monica, Calif. to Coconut Grove, Fla. on March 1. The move makes it the first high-profile firm to move to Miami since Miami’s Downtown Development Authority […]