Monthly Archives: June 2022
Institutional investors to replace retail investors as major holders of digital assets, says new study
(Hedgeweek) Institutional investors are set to replace retail investors as the major holders of digital assets, according to new research from digital currency asset manager Grayscale Investments. To read this article:
CTAs survive May’s wild ride
(Opalesque) Commodity prices except for oil retreated during May 2022 owing to the concern over an impending global recession driven by the hawkish Federal Reserve and geopolitical uncertainty. The Eurekahedge CTA/Managed Futures Hedge Fund Index was down -0.20% in May […]
Weiss Asset Management Charged with Short Selling Violations
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that investment advisory firm Weiss Asset Management LP has agreed to pay approximately $6.9 million to settle charges that it violated the federal securities laws when it unlawfully purchased stock in seven […]
Hedge funds and private equity the alternatives of choice for US investors
(Opalesque) With Intelligence‘s investor intentions data from April 2022 identified private equity (72%) and hedge funds (54%) as the alternative asset classes most likely to see inflows from US investors in the coming months. And, as in our December 2021 […]
Stock futures rise slightly as investors brace for a big Fed rate hike
(CNBC) Stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading Tuesday as investors anxiously awaited the Federal Reserve’s aggressive action to tame surging inflation. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 70 points. S&P 500 futures edged up 0.3% and Nasdaq […]
30-year mortgage rate surges to 6.28%, up from 5.5% just a week ago
(CNBC) Mortgage rates jumped sharply this week, as fears of a potentially more aggressive rate hike from the Federal Reserve upset financial markets. The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage rose 10 basis points to 6.28% Tuesday, according […]
Bitcoin’s plunge spells trouble for the dot-com era entrepreneur who went all in
(CNBC) Having once lost $6 billion at the height of the dotcom bubble, software entrepreneur Michael Saylor is no stranger to volatility in the financial markets. In 1999, MicroStrategy, Saylor’s software firm, admitted to overstating its revenues and erroneously reporting […]
Hedge fund GPs and LPs at odds over investment priorities, says SEI paper
(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund managers and investors don’t currently see eye-to-eye when it comes to investment priorities, according to a new paper published by SEI. To read this article:
Schwab Subsidiaries Misled Robo-Adviser Clients about Absence of Hidden Fees
(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three Charles Schwab investment adviser subsidiaries for not disclosing that they were allocating client funds in a manner that their own internal analyses showed would be less profitable for their clients under […]
Hedge funds using misinformation to combat new financial regulations, say US unions
(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds are spreading misinformation by claiming they have the backing of the largest US unions in their ‘fight’ against new financial regulations, according to a report by The Financial Times. To read this article:
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index measured down 1.30% in in May
(Hedgeweek) The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index measured -1.30% in in May. To read this article:
Fed likely to boost interest rates by three-quarters of a point this week
(CNBC) Markets are beginning to anticipate an even faster pace of interest rate hikes, and Federal Reserve officials apparently are contemplating the possibility as well. Central bank policymakers are entertaining the idea of a 75 basis point increase to the […]
