Monthly Archives: June 2015
Hedge Fund Managers Increase Bets on European M&A
(Reuters.Com) According to a recent article in Reuters, Hedge fund managers looking to profit from corporate announcements such as mergers and acquisitions are scaling up their bets in Europe, confident that a resolution of the Greek debt crisis is near […]
Majority Of Advisors Plan To Continue Recommending Alternative Investments
(DailyAlts.com) Can alternative investments help advisors build more robust portfolios for their clients, or are they just hype? That’s the subject tackled by a study conducted by Pershing and Beacon Strategies, with the results compiled into a new white paper […]
First Hedge Funds Now Private Equity
New York (HedgeCo.net) – When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced last fall that they were no longer going to be investing in hedge funds, the media had a field day. Despite the fact that CalPERS stated that […]
Glenview Offshore Opportunity Fund Tops Barron’s Hedge Fund List
New York (HedgeCo.net)- The annual Barron’s Hedge Fund List was recently released and for the second straight year, Glenview Offshore Opportunity Fund came in at number one. The fund managed by Larry Robbins accumulated a three-year annualized gain of 57%. […]
Hedge Funds Boosting ETF Growth
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com)- In the HedgeCoVest newsletter three weeks ago, we featured an article entitled Assets in ETFs to Surpass Hedge Funds This Quarter. One of the issues that we brought up in that article was a question of how […]
Hedge Funds Inch Up Again In May
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) –The latest numbers show that the average hedge fund moved up 0.72% during the month of May. According to research firm Hedge Fund Research, the gain puts the average hedge fund up 3.89% for the year while […]
Hedge Funds Continue To Grow In Institutional Ownership
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com)—Hedge funds have been taking it on the chin when it comes to performance and fees as the overall market has continued on its incredible bullish run. Despite the negative commentaries and the occasional political jab, the industry […]
HedgeCoVest Models Favorite and Least-Favorite Sectors
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) – One of the advantages of having access to the hedge fund managers on the HedgeCoVest platform and the models they run on the platform is that we get to see look over their shoulders to see […]
Large Speculators Becoming More Bullish On Metals
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) The latest Commitment of Traders reports from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) show that large speculators (mostly hedge funds and CTAs) became more bullish toward metals in the past week’s reporting period. Looking at the reports […]
Even Acts Of Philanthropy By Hedge Fund Managers Criticifed
New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) Hedge fund manager John Paulson made news earlier this week when he pledged a record donation of $400 million to Harvard’s engineering school. In most cases such a donation would be hailed as a wonderful gesture, but […]