(Bloomberg) — Jacob Gottlieb, whose $8 billion hedge fund shut amid an insider trading scandal, is among Wall Street money managers who tapped the government’s $669 billion emergency program designed to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, according to […]

(CNBC) Short-term trend-following hedge fund strategies stayed in positive territory in the first six months of 2020, despite June proving to be another tough month in which CTAs’ performance continued to slide as markets reverted and lacked direction. To read […]

(Hedgeweek) Brummer & Partners, the Stockholm-based multi-strategy hedge fund firm, has generated positive returns for the first half of 2020, with US long/short equity, credit and macro strategies all driving performance in its flagship strategy in recent weeks. To read […]

(Business Insider) The world’s largest asset manager downgraded US equities to “neutral” from “overweight,” citing risks of dried-up stimulus measures and rising COVID-19 case counts across the country. Fresh US-China trade tensions and the upcoming presidential election add to a […]

(CNBC) Stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading on Monday after a solid rally on Wall Street to start the week.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 75 points, while the S&P 500 futures were up 0.2% The Nasdaq […]

(CNBC) The Treasury Department and Small Business Administration on Monday disclosed the names of businesses to whom they have lent more than $150,000 as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The disclosure comes amid demands from Democrats for more transparency […]

(Marketwatch) Recent national polls show presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pulling ahead of President Donald Trump, a Republican. Analysts and investors have viewed some of Biden’s policies as being potential negatives for stocks, while Trump argued last week that […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds have emerged as the top pick among asset allocators heading into the second half of 2020, outflanking other products such as private equity and real estate as investors’ asset-class-of-choice, according to new data from Credit Suisse, which […]

(Opalesque) Dixon Boardman, CEO & Founder, Optima Asset Management and Vice Chairman, Forbes Family Trust, is pounding the table urging investors to make room in their portfolios for alternative investments, because their ability to hedge can provide much needed downside […]

(Hedgeweek) In a recent interview with Hedgeweek, Jack Inglis, the CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, discussed hedge funds’ response to the assortment of operational obstacles arising from the coronavirus-imposed lockdown, how virtual conferencing has reshaped manager-investor relationships, and […]

(CNBC) U.S. stock futures traded slightly higher on Sunday night as Wall Street tried to build on the momentum from last week’s solid performance. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 95 points, or 0.4%. S&P 500 futures gained 0.3% and […]

(CNBC) The latest jobs report shocker may have missed a troubling trend. Crossmark Global Investments’ Victoria Fernandez warns it didn’t capture the fallout from surging coronavirus cases. “The data was collected through the middle of June,” the firm’s chief market […]