(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund, private equity and other asset management firms are using cutting-edge, values-based marketing technology to open new doors and build stronger relationship with allocators. This new Valuegraphics profiling identifies more precisely what drives investor decision-making, rather than relying […]

(Hedgeweek) Widening deal spreads in March-April translated into an underperformance of Merger Arbitrage in early Q2, but the strategy recovered in May along with the tightening of deal spreads, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research […]

(Hedgeweek) Intensifying market competition in an increasingly crowded space is the top concern among credit fund managers, according to new research from global law firm Ropes & Gray. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Soloda Investment Advisors, a hedge fund being started by former Moore Capital Management senior portfolio manager Hassim Dhoda, is being given $100 million in seed capital from strategic investor HS Group, according to a person with knowledge of the […]

(Bloomberg) HSBC Holdings Plc is continuing a hiring spree for its equities business in the Asia-Pacific region, recruiting executives from firms including Deutsche Bank AG, the German lender which is making deep cuts to its own global operations. HSBC has […]

(City A.M) Hedge fund firm Winton Group, founded by businessman David Harding, announced today that its profits were up slightly after a disastrous 2016. Pre-tax profits were up to £125m in 2017, after being slashed in half to £107m a […]

(Bloomberg) After years of prevarication, BT Group Plc seems finally willing to consciously uncouple from its fixed-network business. CEO Gavin Patterson may be learning from the experience of BT’s Italian peer. The former British national telecoms operator is evaluating informal […]

(New York Post) Athenahealth blasted billionaire Paul Singer for publicly pressuring it to sell itself — even as it revealed it had hired advisers to review a $6.9 billion buyout offer from Singer’s hedge fund….. To read this article:

(Harvest) The reason for asset allocation scenario analysis is simple. There is a whole crowd of investors who do use or are uncomfortable with formal decision-making employing optimization. Quantitative asset allocation models like Black-Litterman, while elegant in theory, have not […]

(Hedgeweek) The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has conducted one of the largest co-ordinated series of enforcement actions by state and provincial securities regulators in the United States and Canada to crack down on fraudulent Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), […]

(Bloomberg) Developers like building luxury London homes. Their bankers would rather they didn’t. Traditional lenders are charging more for loans or declining to offer money at all after a boom in prime properties ended and left builders with a record […]

(Hedgeweek) Two former Zadig Asset Management pros are launching a European l/s equity hedge fund, HFMWeek has learned. Vincent Steenman and Kevin Guillot are readying London-based Sata Capital, which will run a fundamental, concentrated portfolio. Sata’s Cayman-domiciled fund will be […]