(Harvest) With Turkey in freefall, the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) became an important tool for accessing a crippled market.The U.S.-listed ETF experienced record trading volume in recent days as investors used the fund to express views on Istanbul-listed stocks […]

(Hedgeweek) CFA UK’s latest Valuations Index, which measures investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold, indicates a risk-off mentality amongst investors in Q2 2018, with those polled seeing most value in safe haven assets. To read this […]

(Hedgeweek) Sixty four per cent of asset managers plan to launch cross-border products in the next five years, however, the vast majority (88 per cent) see distribution-related data as a challenge in achieving this, and believe the pace of change […]

(Reuters) – The French unit of Australian hospital group Ramsay Health Care has approached investors of Sweden’s Capio as it considers bumping up its 661 million Swedish crown ($756 million) bid for the hospital chain, a source close to Ramsay […]

(Bloomberg) Boaz Weinstein’s hedge funds that invest in closed-end credit strategies have posted losses this year. The market-neutral Saba Capital CEF Opportunities 2 dropped about 7.5 percent in the first seven months of the year and fell 2.6 percent in […]

(Reuters) Brevan Howard Asset Management plans to launch a new hedge fund betting on shifting monetary policy, two sources familiar with the matter said, as a decade of money printing by central banks and zero interest rates comes to an […]

(Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting two hedge funds run by people based in Asia, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The funds, which together manage about $1.4 billion in assets, were run by Goldman Sachs partners […]

(Bloomberg) A former Julius Baer Group Ltd. wealth manager admitted to participating in a billion-dollar scheme to launder money embezzled from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, less than a month after he was arrested for his alleged role in the plot. […]

(City A.M) Sir Chris Hohn’s activist hedge fund has stepped up its campaign to halt an €8.5bn (£7.4bn) takeover. And now, it’s getting personal. The Children’s Investment (TCI) Fund has written to the board members of Safran, the aircraft engine […]

(Harvest) Worsening relations with the U.S. have spurred a sharp selloff in Turkish assets and exposed economic weaknesses such as large external debt loads and rampant inflation. We see many of these problems as unique to Turkey, yet other EMs […]

(Harvest) Will Bonds Continue Fulfilling their Dual Role?An allocation to fixed income has traditionally been present in all but the most aggressive of portfolios, with conservative portfolios often being 100% fixed income. Certainly, many portfolios have benefited from their allocation […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds are up 0.43 per cent so far in 2018, their weakest performance on record since 2008 when they declined 0.23 per cent in the seven months up to July, according to the August 2018 Eurekahedge report. To […]