Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Majority of Models Outperform Overall Market for August
New York (HedgeCo.Net) August was a brutal month for the global stock market as major indices, in most cases, dropped over eight percent. The S&P dropped 6.26% and that made it one of the leading indices from around the globe. […]
Hedge Fund Indices Showing Small Losses For August
New York (HedgeCo.net) — As the results of different hedge funds have been coming out over the last two weeks, we have seen some fairly large losses from some of the more high-profile funds. However, the hedge fund indices have […]
Institutions Lightening Up on Bearish Bets Ahead Of Fed Meeting
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest Commitment of Traders report for 30-day Treasury bills showed that large speculators have lightened up considerably on their bearish sentiment. The large speculator group is made up mostly of hedge funds and other institutional […]
Chinese Probes Shaking Confidence Of Fund Managers
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As the Shanghai Composite Index continues its volatile ways with a definite downward skew, Chinese authorities have stepped up their investigations as to what is causing the chaotic swings. According to a recent report from Reuters, […]
Small Speculators Reach Extreme Bearish Level On S&P Futures
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Normally we focus on the large speculator group when we look at the commitment of traders (COT) reports, but the recent activity by small speculators in the S&P futures COT report caught our attention. In just […]
Hedge Funds For The Masses
(ABC News) Hedge funds aren’t just for the 1 percent anymore. The mutual-fund industry wants average investors to get into its own version of hedge funds, saying they can offer protection when the stock market is tumbling…. These funds, also […]
Bloomberg Article Questions Worthiness of Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – In an article on Bloomberg yesterday, author Sheelah Kolhatkar asked “Are Hedge Funds Still for Suckers?” The article cited the performance over the last few months mainly and it looked at the performance of well-known funds […]
Appaloosa’s David Tepper Making Noise
New York (HedgeCo.net) – David Tepper, founder and President of Appaloosa Management, was all over the news on Thursday. There were articles from Business Insider, CNBC, Reuters and two from Market Watch. So what was all the news? Interestingly enough, […]
Lack of Correlation By Hedge Funds Apparent Over Long Run
New York (HedgeCo.Net) A HedgeCoVest follower on Twitter recently asked, facetiously we think, “what have hedge funds done over the last five years?” After research, we can tell you that from January 1, 2010 through the end of July, the […]
Apparently Bigger Isn’t Always Better
New York (HedgeCo.net) – A new study has been released that suggests that when it comes to investing in hedge funds, bigger isn’t always better. The study was conducted by researchers at City University in London and the findings showed […]
Hedge Fund Assets Over $3.2 Trillion
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest report from Preqin shows that the assets under management for the hedge fund industry now exceed $3.2 trillion. Despite some concerns about hedge fund returns in recent years, the asset growth has come from […]
Bridgewater Fund Loses 6.9% in August
New York (HedgeCo.net) – We often hear it said that when a company is getting ready to release its most recent earnings report that they are “stepping into the earnings confessional”. Over the last week, many hedge fund managers of […]