(Funds Europe) Hedge fund assets increased to a record level in the most recent quarter despite redemptions from some of the main strategies. Assets under management reached $3.24 trillion at the end of the third quarter, driven by a $8.4 […]

(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 […]

(Bloomberg) Palladium climbed near a record as the U.S. plans to pull out of the nuclear weapons pact with Russia, fueling tensions with one of the largest producers at a time when consumers are already scrambling for supplies. Production will […]

(Hedgeweek) Five new liquid alternative funds were launched in Q3 2018, including one Equity Hedge Fund, one Event Driven Fund, one Multi-Strategy Fund, one Global Macro Fund and one Relative Value Fund. Additionally, there were 19 liquidations. To read this […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds and other alternative investments will no longer be dubbed “shadow banks” by global regulators, lifting a pejorative label which has stuck to the $45 trillion sector since the financial crisis.Treated with suspicion by regulators and policymakers, “shadow […]

(Opalesque) New research shows that there exists a set of quantitative indicators that can help investors determine the likely future performance of their fund managers. The study, which was conducted by Professor Andrew Clare of Cass Business School and co-authored […]

(Bloomberg) The slump in U.S. stocks and muted rebound in Treasuries spells bad news for risk parity funds, according to Jeffrey Gundlach, chief investment officer of DoubleLine Capital. A 6.5 percent decline in the S&P 500 Index from its September […]

(Institutional Investor) Activist campaigns by hedge fund managers ultimately have no effect on investor portfolios, according to a new Stanford University working paper…The paper, which examined the effects of hedge fund activism on shareholder value and company operations, concluded that […]

(Financial Post) Shawn Kimel, the founder of Toronto-based hedge fund K2 & Associates Investment Management Inc., has paid the Ontario Securities Commission a $550,000 penalty and agreed to a nine-month prohibition on trading in both a personal and professional capacity […]

(Harvest) The longest bull market in history continues – yet increased volatility has many investors wondering when and how that might change. The key is the U.S. economy. How close could we be to the next recession? What factors are […]

(Dealbreaker) We’ve seen it coming on the edge of night for so long, but it now appears that broader Wall Street sentiment is catching up with our acknowledgment that Bill Ackman is a refulgent resurgent bird soaring back into the […]

(Dealbreaker) Two decades ago, Carl Icahn started a charity dedicated in part to getting Carl Icahn’s name onto charter schools. This was to be accomplished with a huge slug of shares in American Railcar Industries that the charity could not […]