Monthly Archives: August 2015
Moving To Cash: Something Mutual Funds and ETFs Can’t Do
New York (HedgeCo.Net) A phrase that gets used quite often on the financial networks is “risk-on risk-off”. Given the huge decline in the market last week it was mostly risk-off that was being spoken and with good reason. Risk-on risk-off […]
Hedge Funds Becoming Less Bearish On Gold
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With the increasingly volatile global stock market changing rapidly, hedge funds and other institutional investors seem to be moving away from their bearish positions on gold. If we look at the Commitment of Traders report from […]
Double Line Capital Becomes Second Manager To Buck Trend
New York (HedgeCo.net) – In somewhat of a contrarian move, Jeffrey Gundlach and his firm DoubleLine Capital have launched a new commodities based mutual fund. Just one month ago Wells Fargo launched a commodities based hedge fund in what seemed […]
Hedge Funds In U.S. Seen Curbing Damage From August Turbulence
(Bloomberg) Everyone on Wall Street had the same question last monday: which hedge fund managers lost, and how much? But as financial markets fell across time zones in a day of harrowing swings, some managers had the same answer: none […]
The Stock That Burned 2-Hedge Fund Billionaires Is Getting Decimated
(Business Insider) David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital and Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors both lamented their stakes in SunEdison, a manufacturer of solar-energy components, earlier this month.The share price at the time was $16.80.It has almost halved since then, dropping […]
Two New Models Added To The HedgeCoVest Platform
New York (HedgeCo.net) Two new fund manager models have been added to the HedgeCoVest platform—the Ferro Systematic Market Neutral model and the JAB Fundamental Value model. Ferro is a market neutral model and JAB is a long-only model. Ferro Systematic […]
Several Hedge Funds Posting Big Gains In August
New York (HedgeCo.net) – While hedge funds as a whole appear to be down during the month of August, they aren’t down nearly as much as the overall market and some funds are actually raking in huge gains so far […]
A New York Hedge Fund Is Having a Monster Month Thanks To Market Mayhem
(Business Insider) New York-based Capstone Investment Advisors, a $3.6 billion hedge fund, is having a huge month thanks to the market mayhem. Capstone, a volatility hedge fund founded by Paul Britton, runs a number of portfolio protection funds that seek […]
Five of Six HedgeCoVest Portfolios Outperform Overall Market
(HedgeCo.net) – The overall market lost 5.77% last week, and that was the worst weekly loss in the last four years for the S&P 500. The HedgeCoVest portfolios fared much better as a whole with five out of the six […]
Odey Fund Uses China Slide To Pair Losses
New York (HedgeCo.net) – HedgeCo.net featured a story about Crispin Odey’s main hedge fund back in May that discussed the fund’s loss of 19.3% in April. The fund was betting against emerging markets and it took a huge hit on […]
The U.S. Stock Market’s Mode of Uncertainty
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Just yesterday we featured an article about Aberdeen Asset Management Plc considering adding to their equity allocation amidst the selling that has taken place recently. Apparently DoubleLine Capital’s Jeff Gundlach doesn’t agree with that approach. In […]
Hedge Fund Adviser Who Called Emerging Stock Rout Ends Short Bet
(Bloomberg) August 24, 2015 10:22 PM ???? Julian Brigden, a hedge-fund consultant who correctly predicted the rout in emerging-market stocks, now says it’s time for bears to cover some of their short positions on expectations the Federal Reserve will delay […]