Monthly Archives: August 2015
Here Are Some Of The Stocks Hedge Funds Have Been Buying and Selling
(The Business Insider) Hedge funds had to publish their 13F filings on Friday, there are a few standout investments: Tech-focused hedge fund Tiger Global took a big position in Netflix, while Jana Partners invested in Precision Castparts right before Warren […]
Sliced Investing Automates Private Investments For RIAs
(Daily Alts) Sliced Investing a 2014 graduate of the Y Combinator accelerator class, raised $2 million in seed funding to launch its online hedge-fund investing program, which debuted in November 2014. Nine months later, the firm has expanded its offerings […]
Business Korea
(Business Korea) According to Activist Insight, activist hedge funds intervened in the management of approximately 300 companies worldwide by purchasing treasury stocks or demanding more dividends or spinoffs in the first half of this year. The number increased by 23 […]
Billionaire George Soros Sells Alibaba Shares
(BBC News) Alibaba recently announced a deal with one of China’s largest physical retailers, Suning. The fund owned by the influential billionaire George Soros has sold most of its shares in the Chinese online retail firm Alibaba. Soros Fund Management […]
Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Index Increases in July
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 1.38% in July which was a nice recovery from the 2.05% loss for the month of June. The index, which was designed to represent the overall hedge […]
The Real Value of Liquid Investments
New York (HedgeCo.Net) In last week’s newsletter we featured a story on liquid alts and how they may not be as liquid as investors think due to the illiquid assets they may be holding. Another aspect of liquidity has to […]
Goldman Stands Out In Japan With Rising Profit, and Revenue
(Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs seized on Japan’s buoyant stock market and local companies’ appetite for mergers to become the only large foreign investment bank to boost revenue, profit and headcount there last fiscal year….As well as the overseas expansion drive by […]
China Hedge Funds Lose $10B After Market Collapse
(CNBC) Hedge funds focused on China suffered around $10 billion in outflows in July, after the Shanghai Composite posted a fall of over 14 percent for the month, new data shows. The HFRI Index, which tracks hedge funds that predominantly […]
Moving Averages Sending Possible Bearish Sign
New York (HedgeCo.net) Last week saw the 13-week moving average for the Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB) crossed bearishly below its 52-week moving average. The 13-week moving average is unconventional, but it represents one quarter’s worth of data and […]
Kyle Bass Says Drugmakers Claim is Hypocritical
New York (HedgeCo.net) – After hearing criticism for one of the ways he attempts to make money in his hedge fund, J. Kyle Bass decided to strike back. Bass is the founder of Hayman Capital Management and the strategy he […]
Hackers Stole Secrets For Up To $100 Mln Insider-Trading Profit
(Reuters) A group of mainly U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from thousands of corporate press statements before their public […]
Celebrating Our Differences
New York (hedgeCo.net) Liquid alternatives have been growing in popularity over the last decade. There are different types of liquid alternatives and some use cloning or replication techniques and those are the ones we will focus on at this time. […]