(Hedgeweek) The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 0.41 per cent during the month of July, kicking off the second half of the year on a positive note, despite trailing behind the MSCI AC World Index (Local) which rallied 2.59 per […]

(Reuters) – A hedge fund owned by the chief executive of Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O), Edward Lampert, has offered to buy the company’s Kenmore appliances brand for $400 million in cash, Sears said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. To […]

(Reuters) – Prominent hedge fund managers appeared to make big second-quarter bets that the U.S. economy would continue to expand despite increasing concerns about a broadening trade dispute between the United States and China, regulatory filings showed Tuesday. To read […]

(Bloomberg) Spotify Technology SA, the music-streaming company that’s gained 47 percent since its April debut, attracted a number of prominent hedge funds in the second quarter. Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, George Soros’s Soros Fund Management and Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital […]

(Bloomberg) Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio kept his faith in the two biggest exchange-traded funds backed by gold, even as an investor exodus sent prices of the metal tumbling. As of June 30, Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates maintained its 3.9 million […]

(Bloomberg) Dozens of hedge funds investing billions of dollars in cryptocurrencies don’t know if they’re calculating their taxes correctly, which may be a problem now that U.S. authorities have said they’re going to be scrutinizing virtual currencies. Just like individual […]

(Bloomberg) Elon Musk said he’s getting advice from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and private-equity firm Silver Lake on taking Tesla Inc. private, as the billionaire drip feeds details of a potential deal valued at more than $70 billion. In a […]

(Opalesque) In the week ending 10 August, 2018, a Credit Suisse survey showed that investors are coming back to hedge funds after a rough few years. Callan’s sixth annual survey has found that 43% of U.S. asset owners have incorporated […]

(Opalesque) Los Angeles-based Arca Funds has launched with the goal of helping to institutionalize digital tokens and cryptocurrencies. Arca Funds is the work of Steven McClurg, a director at Guggenheim Partners; Rayne Steinberg, co-founder of Wisdom Tree and Jeff Dorman, […]

(Bloomberg) A number of hedge fund firms have a hot product. It’s not their hedge funds. Och-Ziff Capital Management’s investors withdrew $418 million from its hedge funds in the second quarter. Total inflow of assets under management, however, were $1.2 […]

(Hedgeweek) The flash estimate for the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, indicates a 0.21 per cent gain in July. Year to date, the Index has lost 1.98 per cent. To read this article: