Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Even Acts Of Philanthropy By Hedge Fund Managers Criticifed
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) Hedge fund manager John Paulson made news earlier this week when he pledged a record donation of $400 million to Harvard’s engineering school. In most cases such a donation would be hailed as a wonderful gesture, but […]
Bank of America Strategist “Mid 2015 is a Lose-Lose.”
New York- (HedgeCoVest.Com) – If you are a traditional long-only investor, you probably don’t want to hear what Bank of America Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett is saying about this summer. In a note to clients on Tuesday, Hartnett wrote: […]
Three Big Name Stocks That Hedge Funds Unloaded in Q1
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – The first quarter was a choppy one for the stock market and hedge funds did manage to outperform the S&P 500 based on the performance of the Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index. The CSHFI has a […]
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 […]
The Chinese Market And Domestic GDP: Warning Signs?
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – The last two days of trading last week produced a couple of news items that could be sending a warning sign to investors. In Thursday’s trade, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.5% for the worst daily […]
Hedge Fund Manager Fires Back At Hillary Clinton
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – Omega Advisors founder Leon Cooperman is tired of Hillary Clinton bashing the hedge fund industry with her populist rhetoric. Cooperman told CNN on Monday, “I don’t need anybody crapping all over what I do for a […]
Credit Suisse Index Up Again In May
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 0.83% in May and that reversed the loss of 0.38% in April. The index, which was designed to be used as a barometer for the overall hedge […]
Monthly Report Card for May: Healthcare Bounces Back
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – After setting the world on fire in the first quarter, the healthcare sector and the biotech sub-sector both took a little breather in April. During the first quarter, the Healthcare Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV) surged […]
Yet Another Deal In The Chip Sector
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – In today’s HedgeCoVest newsletter, we featured an article about the amount of M&A activity so far in 2015 and the Avago Technologies/ Broadcom deal was mentioned since it was the largest deal in the history of […]
Beaupost Betting On Energy
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – Hedge fund manager Seth Klarman pointed out in a year-end letter to investors in the Baupost Group’s fund that he wasn’t seeing many bargains in the stock market with the exception of the energy sector. With […]
Revolutionary HedgeCoVest platform goes live, democratizing alternative investments for advisors and retail investors
The industry’s first real-time hedge fund replication platform enables investors to securely invest in hedge fund strategies via their own brokerage account Over 1,500 beta users and 45 alternative investment firms on the platform Go-live marks the launch of the […]