Monthly Archives: April 2019

(Reuters) – Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point LLC is building a stake in Sony Corp to push for changes that include shedding some businesses, the second time in six years it has targeted the Japanese electronics maker, people familiar […]

(Opalesque) The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), today launches its Core Characteristics of Impact Investing, four tenets that define the growing space of impact investing and will provide financial markets with greater clarity on what constitutes credible impact investing practice. […]

(Reuters) – Hedge fund Cruiser Capital Advisors LLC, which focuses on industrial and financial investments, has hired Nicholas Kapur from SumZero, an online community for investment professionals, a person familiar with the move said. Kapur joins Cruiser Capital as a […]

(Hedgeweek) A recent study by the Strategic Consulting team, Prime Services, Barclays Capital, found that since 2010, merger arbitrage was the highest performing alpha generating strategy, returning 2.6 per cent (annualised). But in Europe, this strategy, which used to be […]

(Opalesque) Tikehau Capital the alternative asset management and investment group, today announced the appointment of Nithin Johnson as Executive Director of Business Development based in New York. Johnson will support the growth of Tikehau Capital’s North American business by developing […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds are getting a pick-me-up from the stock market and rebounding from a harsh 2018 to their best quarterly performance in a decade. Managers returned 5.9 percent on a fund-weighted basis, posting their strongest showing since the third […]

(Bloomberg) A U.S. investor who has backed hedge fund managers from John Paulson to Kyle Bass is pushing into Europe to offer managers an unusual choice: They can take a bigger share of profits with the catch that they risk […]

(Bloomberg) Wondering who’s driving this year’s advance in stocks? Individual investors have played a role, and so have companies themselves. But to date one notable class of professional speculators has been absent. It’s hedge funds, who have stubbornly refused to […]

(New York Post) Morgan Stanley is trying to distance itself from its role in helping early Lyft investors bet against the ride-hailing company after Lyft threatened to sue them and report them to regulators…. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) While President Donald Trump is focused on the national emergency he’s declared to secure the southern U.S. border, the billionaire founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund is more worried about losing the American dream. Capitalism must be reformed […]