Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Hedge Fund’s Treasury Purchases Catch The Eye Of Officials
New York (HedgeCo.net) – It usually isn’t a good idea to bring attention to yourself, but that especially holds true when the attention you have garnered is from none other than the United States Treasury. Element Capital Management, a New […]
Institutional Investors Reversing Course on Gold
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The latest commitment of traders reports were released last week and they show that the sentiment toward gold and silver seem to have made a turn toward the upside. For gold, the large speculator group was […]
Liquid Alts Perform As Advertised in Volatile Market
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While the market has been climbing for the last six years, the popularity of liquid alternatives has grown tremendously. After the last bear market in 2007-2009, investors were looking for investments that could withstand volatile or […]
Recent Rally In Oil Spurred By Hedge Fund Short Covering
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Oil has rallied 13.6% in the last two weeks after falling below the $40 per barrel price for a few days. Interestingly, the price of West Texas Intermediate Crude has not close a month below $40 […]
Julian Robertson’s Proteges Still Up YTD Despite August Losses
New York (HedgeCo.net) – As the returns for August continue to roll in from various hedge funds, there have only been a handful that actually gained ground in August, but some funds are still reporting substantial year to date gains […]
Several Former SAC Managers Performed Well in August
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Over the last couple of days, several well-known hedge fund managers have released their performance numbers and have shown sizable losses for the month of August. Even as the S&P lost 6.26% on the month, some […]
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, […]
Ackman Joins Loeb and Einhorn With Big August Loss
New York (HedgeCo.net) – In an article on Tuesday, we pointed out how David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point lost 5.3% and 5.2% in August. While these two managers might be licking their wounds a little, they […]
Model Spotlight: HedgeCoVest Basic Materials Long/Short Model
New York (HedgeCo.net) Since the end of February, the basic materials sector has been the second worst performing sector, second only to the energy sector. The Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB) was down just over 20% from the beginning […]
Hedge Funds Becoming Less Bearish On Gold
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With the increasingly volatile global stock market changing rapidly, hedge funds and other institutional investors seem to be moving away from their bearish positions on gold. If we look at the Commitment of Traders report from […]
Liquid Alts Perform As Advertised In Volatile Market
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While the market has been climbing for the last six years, the popularity of liquid alternatives has grown tremendously. After the last bear market in 2007-2009, investors were looking for investments that could withstand volatile or […]
HedgeCoVest Versus Market Vectors Indices in August
New York (HedgeCo.net) – August was a rough month for the global stock market as all major indices lost at least 5% on the month and some saw double-digit losses. With that market environment as a backdrop, Market Vectors Index […]