Monthly Archives: August 2015
Hedge Fund Icons Bullish On Different Forms Of Energy
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Recent 13F filings showed that a number of top hedge funds added energy stocks during the second quarter. However, there was very little overlap in terms of the stocks that the funds were adding and in […]
Bucking The Trend: Wells Fargo Launches Commodities Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Most of the recent headlines regarding commodity based hedge funds have been about poor performance or funds closing down, but Wells Fargo & Co.’s wealth management division is launching a new fund in the midst of […]
6 Retail Stocks Buffet, Soros and Others Are Buying
(TheStreet) — Like it or not, the holiday season is just around the corner — and hedge fund pros already have their chips stacked on where they think you might be shopping. The National Retail Federation revised its forecast for […]
Hedge Funds Aggressively Bearish Towards U.S. Crude
(Reuters) A relatively small group of hedge fund managers has placed a record bet on U.S. oil prices declining further in the months ahead. Hedge funds and other money managers had accumulated gross short futures and options positions totaling 163 […]
Robertson’s Tiger To Invest Startup Capital In China Fund Yulan
(Bloomberg) Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management will invest seed capital with Yulan Capital Management, a China-focused hedge fund firm started by former Citadel money manager Lilian Zhou. Zhou invested in Chinese equities at Chicago-based Citadel before starting New York-based Yulan Capital […]
Hedge Funds AUM Increases By $106 Billion
(Valuewalk.com) Hedge fund assets under management have increased by US$106.0 billion in the first seven months of 2015, driven by strong investor inflows totaling US$54.1 billion and roughly US$52 billion coming from performance-based gains. The CBOE Eurekahedge Relative Value Volatility […]
Bank Of America Tells Advisers To Exit Paulson Hedge Fund
(Reuters) – Bank of America Merrill Lynch is telling its financial advisers to pull clients’ money from billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson’s Advantage fund and said they are not permitted to put new money into one of his other […]
Hedge Fund Inflows Hit 15-Month High
(Reuters) – Investors raised their bets on hedge funds at the fastest pace for 15 months in August. The SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, which calculates monthly hedge fund subscriptions minus redemptions at the start of each month, rose 0.92 […]
What Will be the Impact of China’s Currency Devaluation?
(Hedgefund Intelligence) The RMB devaluation on August 11 surprised global markets because it marked the end of a Chinese yuan-US dollar peg strategy, which made the RMB a one-way bet for traders as the dollar strengthened. If we look at […]
CBOE Launches Hedge Fund Benchmarks With Eurekahedge
(Yahoo Finance) Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) today announced it has launched four new benchmark indexes in collaboration with Eurekahedge, a Singapore-based hedge fund research and data collection company, that measure the performance of hedge funds that employ volatility-based investment […]
Claren Road Investors Seek To Pull Out Nearly $2 Billion
(New York Times) Investors in Claren Road Asset Management may think the hedge fund has come to the end of the road. The hedge fund, founded by four traders in Citigroup’s credit trading department in 2005, is facing requests from […]
Hedge Funds Betting On A Big Pharmaceutical Merger
New York (HedgeCo.net) – With one big merger in the works but far from a done deal, the pharmaceutical sector is drawing a lot of attention from hedge funds. In the latest 13F filings hedge fund luminaries like David Tepper’s […]