(Reuters) Oil prices dipped on Monday amid cautious sentiment as a plunge in financial markets last week and dollar strength early this week underscored concerns that growth may be slowing, especially in Asia’s emerging economies. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Stock hedge fund managers have been complaining for years about the difficulty of keeping up with the S&P 500 Index in a roaring bull market. This month, they’ve outpaced the U.S. benchmark — but in the wrong direction, racking […]

(Hedgeweek) Assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally amounted to $4.99 trillion at the end of Q2 2018, following net?inflows of $85.47 billion and market moves during the period while the global hedge fund industry saw assets rise to […]

(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management said lasgt week that it wants to replace PPG Industries’ (PPG.N) chief executive with his predecessor and suggested that the U.S. paints and coatings company be broken up. To read this article:

(Reuters) Activist investor Third Point LLC sued Campbell Soup Co (CPB.N) on Thursday, alleging the soup and snack maker’s board misled investors about the competence of its directors and the way it carried out a recently completed strategic review.The lawsuit […]

(Reuters) Stocks in Europe renewed their decline along with U.S. futures as disappointing reports from technology bellwethers marred sentiment at the end of a tumultuous week. Treasuries gained with the dollar before data on growth and consumer prices in the […]

HF Pollsters Questioned Over Claims Of Hedge Funds’ Brexit Profits Financial Times posted on Thu 25 Oct 2018 Permalink Print Watchdog examining whether market-sensitive information was misused Two of the UK’s biggest associations of pollsters have been summoned to a […]

(Valuewalk) Cryptocurrency hedge funds are still a fairly new investment vehicle, but we’re already getting a pretty good idea of how they stack up against simple passive investments in two common underlying currencies. The bitcoin price and ethereum price have […]

(Harvest) Technological disruption is facilitating globalization by changing how economies work and how businesses function. It is also changing the human experience, which is one of the causes of the rise of populism. In many emerging markets, globalization has been […]

(Harvest) What’s happening in the Phillippines. This relatively new powerhouse of the Far East has been a surprising under-dog in recent years. President Rodrigo Duterte elected to power in 2016 has been a force not to be reckoned with. This […]

(Pension & Investments) The U.K.’s financial watchdog is examining whether secret relationships between polling companies and hedge funds, especially the sale of market-moving exit polls and voter-opinion data, could violate market-abuse prohibitions… To read this article:

Reuters) – Activist investor William Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has acquired a 3.7 percent stake in hotel operator Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc, the activist hedge fund said on Thursday. The fund said the 10.9 million Hilton shares represented about […]