(Reuters) – An activist hedge fund on Tuesday nominated five directors and urged insurance company Argo Group International Holdings Ltd to cut $100 million in expenses, including corporate jets and housing for its chief executive. Voce Capital Management LLC wants […]

(Reuters) – Borealis Strategic Capital Partners, which invests in new hedge funds, has written its first check to commit capital to Europe-oriented stock fund Vor Capital. Vor Capital launched a year ago with a plan to invest in mid-sized European […]

(Bloomberg) Steve Cohen is aiming for more. His Point72 Asset Management, which attracted $5 billion in outside capital last year in a comeback for the hedge fund investor, is seeking to raise an additional $1 billion between May 1 and […]

(Bloomberg) A former executive at the defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners said he helped his colleagues hide the company’s true financial condition from investors as they increasingly sought to pull their money out of the firm before it collapsed. To […]

(Harvest) With just a modest boost to credit, the Chinese government succeeded in strengthening investor sentiment and stabilizing real economic activity during the first quarter of the year. The growth rates of income, retail sales and industrial production were stronger […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund managers ended March 2019 up 0.77 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 0.45 per cent on an asset-weighted basis. Roughly 78.0 per cent of the hedge fund managers tracked by Eurekahedge recorded positive returns over the […]

(Hedgeweek) Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) One of Sweden’s biggest pension funds says there’s no case for using hedge funds given the cost they represent in the current environment. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) The rally that’s lifted India’s $2.2 trillion stock market to a record has prompted a veteran hedge fund manager to load up on bearish wagers in a fund launched two-months ago. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A new entrant to Asia’s hedge fund market is offering to insure investors against the first 10 percent of their losses. To read this article:

(Reuters) – Hedge fund managers added even more bullish long positions in crude oil and refined fuels last week, but positions showed signs of becoming stretched, setting prices up for a setback. To read this article:

(Opalesque) eVestment reported that hedge fund redemptions continued despite a strong start to the year, which saw Q1 2019 average hedge fund performance hit +5.34%. In aggregate, investors pulled $14.9bn from hedge funds in the first quarter of 2019 with […]