(Hedgeweek) The Lyxor Epsilon Global Trend Fund, Metori Capital’s long-running systematic managed futures strategy, remains well up in 2020, comfortably outperforming CTA benchmarks as trend-following hedge funds were caught out by reversals across across FX, commodities and equities in recent […]

(Opalesque) Hedge fund strategies were marginally impacted by Covid-19 headwinds, with the Lyxor Global UCITs Peer Group down -0.8% so far in September (as of September 25th). The better performing strategies were defensive ones such as Merger Arbitrage and Market […]

(Opalesque) Two New York-based private-equity firms agreed to acquire Wilshire Associates, an employee-owned Santa Monica-based investment advisory, management, and data company. CC Capital Partners, a five-year-old firm founded by former Blackstone Inc. partner Chinh Chu, and Motive Partners, a specialist […]

(CNBC) President Donald Trump’s path to reelection hinges largely on the trajectory of the coronavirus and its impact on the national economy, and he’s gotten unsettling news about both lately. Comparatively lackluster job growth in September coupled with the coronavirus […]

(CNBC) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke for about an hour Monday but emerged from a phone call with no coronavirus stimulus deal. The pair expects to talk again Tuesday as the White House and Democratic […]

CNBC) Asia is well placed for economic recovery compared to the rest of the world because it has mostly succeeded in containing the coronavirus, Goldman Sachs said this week. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A controversial U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plan that would let many hedge funds conceal their stock picks is generating pushback from an unlikely source: hedge funds. The industry’s main trade group is questioning whether the SEC fully considered […]

(Opalesque) Institutional investors are increasingly favoring the biggest, most established alternative managers as they make allocations during a global pandemic, said a survey that explores limited partners’ alternative investment strategies and plans for 2021. According to SS&C Intralinks 2021 LP […]

(CNBC) Stock futures rose in overnight trading on Sunday as investors brace for another volatile week with President Donald Trump’s hospitalization adding more uncertainty to the market outlook ahead of Election Day.  Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed […]

(CNBC) President Donald Trump pressured Congress to pass a coronavirus stimulus plan Saturday as his administration and congressional Democrats struggle to forge a relief deal. In a tweet sent as the president receives treatment for Covid-19 at Walter Reed Medical […]

(CNBC) In just the last 24 hours, the wall of worry for stocks got a lot higher. President Donald Trump has contracted Covid-19, which keeps him off the campaign trail and secluded in the White House for at least two […]

(Hedgeweek) Brummer & Partners’ multi-strategy hedge fund flagship was on track for a marginal September rise, the Swedish hedge fund pioneer said on Friday morning, as strong gains in equities-focused funds were offset by faltering trend-following strategies – but the […]