(Reuters) – Finally, the market looks to be buying into the Fed’s view on U.S. interest rates. And it’s a long time since that’s been the case. To read this article:

(New York Post) Billionaire investor Ken Griffin has hired Andrew Liebeskind as a senior trader for his massive, $30 billion Citadel hedge fund… To read this article:

(Reuters) New York has overtaken London as the world’s most attractive financial center, a survey said on Wednesday, as Britain’s decision to leave the EU prompts banks to shift jobs out of the city to keep access to Europe’s single […]

(Harvest) If you’re an investor, there’s a lot to fret about in Latin America right now. NAFTA’s future is up in the air. The region’s two largest economies–Mexico and Brazil–have elected or are likely to elect populist presidents. Argentina is […]

(Hedgeweek) The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index August 2018 measured 0.71 per cent. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A one-time “King of Political Intelligence” got a year in prison for insider trading — a sentence that sends a warning to Washington consultants that profiting from government secrets can be as risky as trading on confidential company information. […]

(Hedgeweek) In the hedge fund space in August, CTAs outperformed and delivered positive returns in the range of 2-3 per cent depending on the benchmark, according to Lyxor’s latest Hedge Fund Brief. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Trilogy Capital Management LLC is increasing cash levels at its credit hedge fund in a defensive move to protect returns, saying a trade war between the U.S. and China will impact all markets and cause unpredictable ramifications. The New […]

(Reuters) The founders of Diamondback Capital, one of a handful of hedge funds touched by the U.S. government’s insider trading probe, have reunited and are working on a new investment project, people familiar with the matter said.Richard Schimel and Larry […]

(Hedgeweek) Overall industry hedge fund performance came in at +0.04 per cent in August, bringing year to date (YTD) 2018 industry performance to +1.10 per cent, according to data released by eVestment. Among primary strategies, event driven-activist funds were among […]

(Bloomberg) A quantitative-investing strategy is ringing up heroic returns picking the wreckage in emerging-market assets. A Nomura index that mimics a trend-following strategy by chasing momentum in 10 EM currencies against the dollar has outperformed the JPMorgan Emerging Market Index […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge fund seeder Stable Asset Management is backing a team of credit traders from Eric Mindich’s now-defunct Eton Park Capital Management. The London-based group, led by Anirudh Singh, began trading at Aptior Capital at the beginning of September with […]