Monthly Archives: May 2016

(Bloomberg) Bloomberg’s Dani Burger reports on why hedge funds are piling into the same shares that zapped their returns at the start of the year. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) If investors want to win big in the current market, they need to be prepared to do a lot of work. Otherwise, they might as well just go to Las Vegas and try their luck at the tables.Just consider […]

(Harvest) In a world of low and in some cases negative interest rates, investors continue to struggle to find yield. As such, they still find themselves in an all too familiar place: Accept less income, or take on more risk […]

(Gulf News) Hedge funds are piling into the same shares that zapped their returns at the start of the year. They just added momentum stocks for a fifth consecutive quarter, according to an Evercore ISI analysis of 13F filings with […]

(Valuewalk.com) The naysayers regarding solar power have always made one accurate point: the technological cost effectiveness was not the same as cheap burning coal or other carbon emitting sources. Government investing in “green energy” was a boondoggle that will never […]

(Bloomberg) What looks set to become Denmark’s biggest initial public offering in more than a decade may add to pressure on the krone at a time when the exchange rate is already testing levels last seen during a 2015 speculative […]

(The Business Insider) Hedge funds sold a lot of stock in the first quarter of 2016. “The top 50 hedge funds sold off US equities for the second consecutive quarter. Funds unloaded nearly $55 billion worth of shares in U.S. […]

(Daily Alts) DC Plans Should Emulate DB Plan PrinciplesThe buy-and-hold, “60/40” portfolio strategy was designed for a different era. In the 1950s, an American worker had a reasonable expectation of staying with one employee for his entire career, and receiving […]

(The Huffington Post) The world is heating up. As two important measuring stations sit at the point of no return, it is clear that we are entering an era when global concentrations of carbon dioxide will never again dip below […]

(Bloomberg) Three equity hedge funds operated by Lansdowne Partners LP posted gains in the first two weeks of this month after failing to make any money in April, according to a person familiar with the situation. The $11 billion Lansdowne […]

(Bloomberg) Omni Partners LLP is shutting a global macro hedge fund following the departure of Chief Investment Officer Stephen Rosen, who said he’s stepping back from trading. The fund lost 7 percent in the first four months of this year, […]