(Bloomberg) The Volcker Rule — which limits banks from risking their own, and more importantly, their depositors’, money on the trading floor — was always supposed to be a regulation that was all about what feels right. Former Federal Reserve […]

(Reuters) Hedge fund firm Tangency Capital launched last week with $50 million in assets under management to bet on the reinsurance market ahead of the next hurricane season, one of its three founding members told Reuters on Wednesday. Last year […]

(Harvest) Risk isn’t necessarily a bad thing — it can drive a bond portfolio’s returns. But it’s important to understand and balance the four main types of fixed-income risks to help reduce portfolio drawdowns, says Senior Portfolio Manager Gene Tannuzzo. […]

(Reuters) Prominent hedge fund managers appear to have wagered on U.S. health insurers whose shares tumbled after Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon unveiled plans in January for a joint venture aimed at slashing healthcare costs. To read this […]

(Reuters) The following are some hot stocks including the so-called FAANG technology stocks – Facebook Inc (FB.O), Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) – as well as other companies in which hedge […]

(Bloomberg) billionareCleveland-Cliffs Inc., the top U.S. iron-ore producer, is reaping the gains from U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs. Hedge funds including billionaire Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates LP have taken notice: To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is beefing up macro investing by poaching a five-person team from Balyasny Asset Management. Portfolio managers Zorin Finkelsen, Dudley Hoskin, Jamie Pullen and two analysts recently joined Point72, said people familiar with the moves. […]

(Bloomberg) Investors are once again warming up to the year’s hottest sector — technology. Even after regulatory and demand concerns cast a shadow over the industry, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index remains the best performer of 2018, gaining more […]

(Bloomberg) Greylock Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund that holds the distressed bonds of Mozambique and Venezuela, says Bahrain is its next potential target. The cash-strapped Gulf nation has been slow to implement reforms compared with its richer neighbors, including […]

(Bloomberg) Some 234 of China’s large-cap domestic stocks are about to get a significant new inflow of investment. They are among the companies that MSCI Inc., the New York-based provider of financial tools, is adding to its major emerging-market indexes, […]

(Bloomberg) Very few hedge fund managers start with $2 billion from investor George Soros. One who did, Scott Bessent, has returned much of it as part of a prearranged deal. The plan between the two men called for Bessent, who […]

(Alpha-Week) Data shop eVestment published its monthly report this week, finding that activist hedge fund strategies brought in among the strongest returns in the hedge fund industry in April, while overall industry returns are being dragged down by some mediocre […]