Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Hedge Funds Could Be Looking at Worst Year Since 2011
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With the market decline over the last few months and with biotech and pharmaceutical stocks getting hit hard in the third quarter, the hedge fund industry could be looking at it first losing year since 2011 […]
Bearishness Toward Gold Trending Down
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Over the last two weeks, the Commitment of Traders report for gold has shown that large speculators have become less bearish on the metal. You will note that we said less bearish, not necessarily more bullish. […]
Greenlight Capital Continues to Struggle
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Through the first three quarters, 2015 has been a rough one for David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital. According to a Reuter’s report, the fund was down another 3.6 percent in the month of September and that […]
Notorious Short-Seller Jim Chanos Enjoying 2015
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While most of the recent news about hedge funds and their performance has been about negative returns, even if they weren’t as bad as the world indices. The press has had a field day pointing out […]
Kyle Bass Is Likely Enjoying the Last Few Weeks
New York (HedgeCo.net) – He has been called many names by pharmaceutical and biotech companies, one of which is “patent troll”, but Kyle Bass has to be enjoying what has taken place in the last few weeks. First and foremost, […]
Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Acquire Ascensus
New York (HedgeCo.net) Genstar Capital, a San Francisco-based middle-market private equity firm, and Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ascensus, Inc. […]
J.P. Morgan Prime Brokerage Predicts Major Shift in Hedge Fund Allocations
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With the possibility of rising interest rates domestically, interest rate volatility globally and greater volatility in the global equity markets, J.P. Morgan’s prime brokerage division is predicting there will be significant allocation changes in hedge fund […]
Keep Your Eye on the Goal and Ignore the Media and Politicians
New York (HedgeCo.net) Over the course of the last nine months, the media and many politicians have been bashing hedge funds for one thing or another. Back in the first quarter there were a number of articles that bashed the […]
One Time Hedge Fund Darling Valeant Pharma Crushed
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Back in May, there was an article featured in the HedgeCoVest newsletter that looked at where hedge funds were moving their money in the first quarter and the name of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRX) was the […]
Investor Uncertainty Leads to Huge Inflows for Money Markets
New York (HedgeCo.net) – There are a number of indicators that measure investor sentiment, but watching fund flows is one that gets less attention than most. However, a report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch and EPFR Global last week […]
Hedge Funds Grow More Bullish on Oil for Fourth Straight Week
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Oil prices were flat last week and have been trading in a tight range for the four weeks, but that hasn’t kept hedge funds from increasing their bullish bets. With differing views about global economic growth, […]
Looking Ahead To October and December Fed Meetings
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The September FOMC meeting passed and the Fed left rates alone, but for how long? There are two more meetings in 2015, one on October 27 and 28 and one on December 15 and 16. Could […]