(Hedgeweek) Bitwise Asset Management, creator of what it says is the world’s first cryptocurrency index fund, has launched two new low-cost, liquid beta funds, holding bitcoin and ether exclusively. To read this article:

(hedgeweek) A new report by Greenwich Associates has found high levels of satisfaction among US institutional asset management and hedge fund professionals currently employing outsourced trading services, with 71 per cent of survey respondents describing themselves as “extremely satisfied” with […]

(Insider Monkey) Investing in hedge funds can bring large profits, but it’s not for everybody, since hedge funds are available only for high-net-worth individuals. They generate significant returns for investors to justify their large fees and they allocate a lot […]

(Bloomberg) The smart money is finally warming up to U.S. equities after turning defensive in the past few months. Hedge funds’ gross leverage, a measure of the industry’s risk appetite, climbed 2.5 percentage points to 234.5 percent as of Nov. […]

(Bloomberg) Altria Group Inc., the maker of Marlboro cigarettes for the U.S. market, acquired a 45 percent stake in Canadian cannabis company Cronos Group Inc. marking a big victory for a former hedge fund manager’s family office. Chescapmanager LLC, the […]

(Bloomberg) For hedge funds, 2018 is looking bad, certainly worse than 2013 and perhaps as bad as 2011. According to major indexes, hedge funds in aggregate were up around 1 percent through the first three quarters of the year, only […]

(The Technical Analyst) US 10 Year Yields have reached the measured target of a double top pattern and look set to rally in the short-term, according to Andy Dodd, Head of Technical Research at Louis Capital Markets. The market reached […]

(Reuters) – The venture capital arm of quantitative hedge fund manager Two Sigma has backed Trustology, a young company that develops technology to help investors safeguard digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, the companies said on Thursday. To Read this article:

(Bloomberg) Billionaires Ken Griffin, Izzy Englander and Steve Cohen posted monthly losses in November that rank among their worst ever as stock hedge funds dumped holdings at a rate not seen since the financial crisis. Griffin’s Citadel lost about 3 […]

(Bloomberg) After Nomura apportioned blame for Tuesday’s dramatic stock plunge on trend-following quants, an unlikely defender has emerged for the systematic hedge funds: Nomura. In the quest to uncover the culprit behind the S&P 500’s 3.2 percent rout, the investment […]

(Bloomberg) As the clock ticks down toward Brexit, cities across Europe are scrambling to win jobs fleeing the City of London. In the Swiss village of Pfaeffikon—once one of the biggest global centers for hedge fund money—a potential influx of […]