Category Archives: Hedge Fund Technology

SEC Charges Moody’s With Internal Controls Failures and Ratings Symbols Deficiencies

(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Moody’s Investors Service Inc., one of the nation’s largest credit ratings agencies, has agreed to pay a total of $16.25 million in penalties to settle charges involving internal control failures and […]

SEC Charges “Frack Master” With Running an $80 Million Oil and Gas Fraud

(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four companies and eight individuals in an $80 million oil and gas fraud orchestrated by a Dallas man who calls himself the “Frack Master” for his purported expertise in hydraulic fracturing. The […]

Fund Manager Profile and Insights: Charlie Frumberg, Emancipation Management

New York (HedgeCo.Net) Emancipation Management, LLC is an SEC registered New York based investment manager, formed in June 2003. The company has a 10 year track record of identifying public companies within the technology sector that possess valuable franchises which […]

Pension Funds Behaving Like Individual Investors

New York (HedgeCo.Net) Over the last five years, corporate pension funds have quadrupled their allocations to hedge funds, but some of those funds may be having regrets as the hedge fund industry has lagged the overall market during this bullish […]

Manager Profile and Insights: Steven Fauer, Pinnacle Capital Management

New York (HedgeCo.Net) Pinnacle Capital Management (PCM) was founded in 2006 and is an investment-management firm catering to individual and institutional investors. Headquartered in Fayetteville, New York, PCM is registered with the US Securities & Exchange Commission. In 2012, PCM […]

Large Speculators Becoming More Bullish On Metals

New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) The latest Commitment of Traders reports from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) show that large speculators (mostly hedge funds and CTAs) became more bullish toward metals in the past week’s reporting period. Looking at the reports […]

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 […]

29 Hedge Funds opened in Florida in 2015

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Miami and South Florida is back in the news as the area continues to attract hedge funds and financial companies. In a column named “Hedge funds eye Florida’s ‘New Manhattan’“, CNBC’s hedge and private equity funds […]

Two Different Hedge Funds Announce Stakes in YUM Brands

New York (HedgeCo.Net) Over the course of the last week, two different hedge fund/activist investors announced stakes in fast-food giant YUM Brands (NYSE: YUM). On Friday, it was announced that Third Point has bought in to YUM during the first […]

HedgeCoVest Models Continue To Outperform the Overall Market

New York (HedgeCo.net)  – At this point in time, HedgeCoVest has 26 different models for investors to choose from on the platform. There are 12 single strategy models which are replicating a single hedge fund manager and there are 14 […]

HedgeCoVest Wins National Fintech Awards

New York (HedgeCo.Net) HedgeCoVest, the only real-time hedge fund investment platform for retail investors, has swept the board at this year’s Benzinga Fintech Awards. Over 160 applicants from across the nation entered the competition to recognize the most impressive new […]

Highlights from Citi’s March Hedge Fund Snapshot

New York (HedgeCo.Net) Citi recently released its Hedge Fund Snapshot for March and February was a good month for hedge funds both in terms of performance as well as growth. In terms of performance, the two equal-weighted across funds indices […]