(Capital Trading Group) Last week we touched upon the importance of the Federal Reserve and their waffling in regards to staying consistent with their rate hiking plans. The FED is supposed to be independent of political influence but it seems […]

(New York Post) A hedge fund run by former executives of Lehman Brothers reportedly plans to close down after devastating client withdrawals. New York-based River Birch Capital, co-founded by former Lehman President and Chief Operating Officer Bart McDade, is returning […]

(This is Money) Billionaire hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn has taken a 20 per cent pay cut – to £215 million…..He pocketed the dividend after profits at The Children’s Investment Fund surged 30 per cent to £278 million in […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds fared better in November compared to October but still ended the month in negative territory, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. To read this article:

(Reuters) – Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp’s ASG Technologies Group Inc raised its offer to buy Mitek Systems Inc (MITK.O) to $11.50 per share from $10, in its latest attempt to buy the provider of financial technology to banks. ASG […]

(Reuters) – SQN Investors LP, one of Yelp Inc’s top five shareholders, blamed the consumer review service company’s board for its underperformance on Monday and called for new independent directors to be appointed. SQN, which now owns more than a […]

(Bloomberg)There’s probably room for more capitulation when it comes to U.S. stocks. Hedge funds that had stocked up on American equities are still sitting on substantial inventory, according to Sundial Capital Research Inc. While exposure to the S&P 500 Index […]

(The Guardian) A pair of hedge funds owned by prominent Brexit supporters have made significant bets against companies exposed to the British consumer including big high street names. Odey Asset Management, part-owned by Crispin Odey, and Marshall Wace, part-owned by […]

(Reuters) With bond and equity markets from the United States to emerging markets all on pace to lose money this year, investors have not seen this much red on their screens since 1972, …Yet fund managers are finding things to […]

(Bloomberg) Eddie Lampert’s $4.6 billion bid to salvage what’s left of bankrupt Sears Holdings Corp. was pitched by the hedge fund manager as a way to preserve tens of thousands of jobs. To some others in the industry, it’s also […]

(Opalesque) The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined SFM HK Management Limited (SFM) $1.5 million for failures relating to the short selling of Great Wall Motor Company Limited (Great Wall) shares in 2015 on behalf of a […]

(Opalesque) In the week ending December 7th, 2018, Eurekahedge reported 463 hedge fund launches this year up to the end of October versus 477 fund closures. The majority of funds that launched were long/short equities, followed by macro and multi-strategy […]